A virtual server is a method of partitioning
a physical server computer into multiple servers such that
each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its
own dedicated machine.
Each virtual server can run its own fully-fledged
operating system, each server can be independently rebooted
and each server can be allocated a different amount of hardware
resources.
The practice of partitioning a single
server so that it appears as multiple servers has long been
common practice in mainframe computers, but has seen a resurgence
lately with the development of virtualization software and
technologies for other architectures.
A Briars Virtual
Server bridges the gap between shared hosting and dedicated
servers. You get the flexibility of a dedicated server at
a price closer to shared hosting (sharing an application
with other clients).
A Briars Virtual Server is the ideal solution
for light to medium workloads – for example if you
require a web server, but you have only a few sites and
your expected number of hits is light to medium, then a
conventional server will spend 99.9% of the time waiting
for a user hit to service. It only needs the power and capacity
from the hardware resources for a very small period of time.
A Briars Virtual Server shares these loads
with other virtual servers running on the same hardware
– as each virtual server only needs the extra power
for a very small period of time, the other virtual server
do not suffer any performance problems.
In addition to this great value you can
have the well known Briars services added to the package
– management, backup, firewall etc.
