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2. Virtual private server - Wikipedia

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   A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. [1] The term "virtual dedicated server" (VDS) has a similar meaning.A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.

3. Virtual hosting - Wikipedia

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   The term virtual hosting is usually used in reference to web servers but the principles do carry over to other Internet services. One widely used application is shared web hosting. The price for shared web hosting is lower than for a dedicated web server because many customers can be hosted on a single server. It is also very common for a ...

4. Linode - Wikipedia

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   Linode (/ ˈ l ɪ n oʊ d /) [1] was an American cloud hosting provider that focused on providing Linux-based virtual machines and cloud infrastructure. From the time of its launch in 2003, Linode provided virtual private server (VPS) hosting. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in February 2022 for $900 million. [2]

5. Rackspace Cloud - Wikipedia

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   The Cloud Servers API launched on July 14, 2009, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license allows clients to create, configure and control virtual servers. [19] In addition to issuing basic management commands this "enables elastic scenarios" whereby servers are instantiated and destroyed in response to fluctuating load (one of the key ...

6. Web hosting service - Wikipedia

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   Grid hosting – This form of distributed hosting is when a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes. [citation needed] Home server – A private server can be used to host one or more websites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs.

7. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Wikipedia

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   [16] [17] Each virtual machine, called an "instance", functions as a virtual private server. Amazon sizes instances based on "Elastic Compute Units". The performance of otherwise identical virtual machines may vary. [18] On November 28, 2017, AWS announced a bare-metal instance, a departure from exclusively offering virtualized instance types. [19]