Virtual Private Servers Explanation

Virtual private servers offer a flexible and high-performance solution for your high resource-absorbing web sites and applications. You will take advantage of a secure and thoroughly autonomous server environment and your virtual private servers will work just like a standalone dedicated web hosting server.

You can reboot your private virtual hosting server whenever you like and, with full root access to the virtual machine at hand, you can activate any software applications you wish. With any of DreamHost's VPS hosting plans, you can manage IPs, memory, processes, applications, libraries and config files independently of the rest of the virtual private servers hosting accounts on the same machine.

KVM and OpenVZ Virtual Private Servers

DreamHost's new line of KVM and OpenVZ virtual private servers services blends security and reliability with a cost-effective price. Both virtualization technologies ensure better system resource utilization and a conflict-free environment for your applications.

With the cut-price virtual private servers offered by DreamHost, you have a guaranteed amount of CPU and memory resources. DreamHost also guarantees 5-10 times faster data backups. Solid-state drives will ensure faster speeds for your sites and apps, regardless of how busy the physical machine itself is. The Memcached distributed memory object caching system and the Varnish Cache web accelerator will improve your website's loading speed even more.