Develop a Successful Virtual Private Server Profit Model
1. Develop a Successful Virtual Private Server Profit Model Platform, Plans, and Pricing Presented by Lou Honick HostMySite.com CEO
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Editor's Notes
VPS Platforms: Which one is right for you? Beginning Considerations: Where are you now and where you want to go Building a Plan Base: What do you your customers want? Associated Costs: What’s needed? Physical hardware, support systems, training, advertising What to Expect: You planned, you built, and you promoted… now what?
A brief review of virtualization: A virtual server contains virtual environments (ghost machines) which share hardware resources with other virtual environments on the same physical server (hardware node). Virtual servers reduce costs for Web hosts and end users by reducing the amount of hardware needed to support client websites and applications.
Is it right for your customers? Have your current customers requested a better hosting solution? Have you identified customers that would benefit from this solution? What is it exactly that your customers need?
Other Platforms: There are other virtualization platforms out there that don’t hold a large part of the market. Depending on your preference, you can choose from platforms with different host processors, operating systems, and speed of operation. Research is key; use the Web to find out about the various platforms and companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines
Microsoft Virtual Server runs on Windows Server 2003. This is primarily a Windows-based virtualization solution. The latest version, R2, includes Linux guest operating system support. Virtual server enables migration of legacy operating systems, e.g. Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server. Virtual machines can be moved from one physical node to another. Minimal downtime is required to move a virtual environment from one physical node to another. Resources such as CPU, memory, networks and storage can be added to a virtual environment while it is running. Provides support for 64-bit guests, allowing for more memory intensive applications to be run in a virtual environment. Provides support for multiple CPU resources to a single virtual environment.
Xen 3.0 , when running on the latest generation of chips from Intel and AMD, both of which have hardware extensions that better support virtualization, can run unmodified operating systems. In particular, this means that Xen 3.0, operating on machines with these chips, can host Windows guest systems. Each guest operating system must be explicitly modified (ported) to run with Xen. This updates the operating system to be directly compatible with Xen, decreasing the amount of work Xen needs to do to interact with the operating system and therefore increasing the performance. Xen supports many mainstream Linux distributions like Red Hat, SuSE and Debian (along with many others as well). Xen has a base operating system running on the server that controls the virtual environments, each of which can run its own operating system similar or different than the base operating system. Xen allows for “seamless” migrations of virtual environments from one physical node to another.
VMware Inc. , a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation, is a major vendor of virtualization software for x86-compatible computers, including VMware Workstation and the freeware VMware Server and VMware Player. Each virtual machine is configured to see the same hardware and therefore the same drivers. The hardware node needs to only manage one set of drivers and hardware, which makes each virtual machine uniform and simplifies the work of the hardware node. VMware ESX runs its own operating system, which allows for increased performance. Operating systems for each virtual environment is installed on top of it. This allows for both Windows and Linux based-operating systems to exist as virtual machines. With VMotion, virtual environments can be moved from one hardware node to another while running, preventing any downtime.
Virtuozzo captures the state of an existing virtual environment and migrates it to a new physical server without any interruption in service or availability. Virtuozzo enables administrators to define many processing parameters to very precisely define a virtualized server's performance. SWsoft leverages the Windows operating system already loaded on the server. It can run multiple virtual servers without the need to pay for extra OS licenses because each virtual server links to the OS on the physical server. Virtuozzo also supports any hardware that Windows supports, including up to eight-way and 16-way servers and as much as 64 Gbytes of RAM.
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