vps and dedicated

[wingless]

just been looking at getting a dedicated server and looking at vps, whats the main disadvantage with having a vps insteed of dedicated? and would running a paysite on a vps work or does it really need to be dedicated?

thanks all

[-HF]

you are now officially a hopeless case, Gary.

[wingless]

thanks......

ive only ever done gallerys, fake tgps and blogs before so virtual hosting was allways fine, so i know little about virtual private and dedicated and whats needed or best

[Pushcube]

Main disadvantage of running it on a VPS would be the lack of control you have over the site (security, performance, etc). You *could* run a paysite on a VPS for sure, no problem, but you'd need to keep your fingers crossed, for example, nobody on the shared box installed a backdoor'd 'nulled' script wrong and some naughty chap roots the box and rm -rf's every site on it for a laugh. Or a rogue script on someones site goes spazz and eats up server resources slowing your site loading down to a crawl (even with memcache's running alongside load balancing etc). So with VPS you're praying none of the other users on the box screw up... and they will :) So a paysite running on your own dedicated box should be your only choice, it's a 'proper' website so it should be treated as such imo.

tl;dr : If I was going to start a paysite it'd be dedicated only, VPS wouldn't even cross my mind.

[wingless]

makes sence, im still working on site design and shooting content so ive got a while to get it sorted but i think i might shell out for a dedicated before i go live then :) just use my virtual hosting while testing etc