VPS hosting is the best option for your credit union website if you’re looking for a new hosting plan or solely want to transfer from a shared host you are currently using. As most marketing agencies will provide shared hosting for your credit union website, we strongly suggest that you reconsider and think about the benefits that come along with private hosting.
While shared hosting will work great for small websites or personal blogs that operate with low traffic, your credit union website will require more substantial support. In addition, maintaining security levels is a major issue for credit union websites, and shared hosting simply can’t measure handling such issues.
What Is VPS?
A physical server is divided into smaller, virtual compartments to form a virtual private server or VPS for short. Virtual private servers, which are far less expensive than dedicated servers, have their own operating system, dedicated storage, and dedicated RAM and CPU resources.
Utilizing the term “private” means that when using a VPS – it is only intended for your credit union’s website. One of the key benefits here is that you won’t have to share your CPU or RAM resources with any other websites which guarantees that your website will operate uninterruptedly.
How Does It Work?
You must have a basic understanding of hosting in general in order to grasp how a VPS functions. Basically, this arrangement involves the website owner paying a company to store the website’s files and database on a server.
A server that is shared by several people is known as a VPS. However, the amount of power and memory allocated to each website stored on it is predetermined. This is accomplished by operating a hypervisor, which creates virtual environments by releasing, managing, and controlling all the resources available.
This means that a VPS gives you your very own server rather than competing for resources with the other websites on a mutually shared server. Even if several VPS customers share the same server, they are separated from one another, so if a problematic user also uses your physical server, their actions won’t affect the performance of your VPS service. This is due to the isolation and security of your data from that of other clients.
Additionally, you’ll benefit from having your own dedicated storage, Random Access Memory (RAM), and other necessary resources that make your credit union’s website run smoothly and at all times.
Advantages of VPS
Choosing the right type of hosting for your credit union website can have a massive effect on website performance. We have listed below the main advantages of VPS for you to consider.
Root Access
First off, root access enables software liberty from the hosting company. Although the hosting company continues to maintain the server’s hardware, the user is still in charge of the software. For instance, you determine when an upgrade is appropriate, not your hosting company.
More than that, a user with root access has complete knowledge of the server’s performance, knows when to update or downgrade, and can review various server logs without contacting their hosting company.
Good Neighborhood
Having a VPS is like having a 9-foot privacy fence around your home. Regardless of what your neighbors are doing, you won’t be bothered. Other accounts on the server will also be impacted if a shared server user is targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack or banned for mass emailing. A shared account’s misuse of server resources will also affect the entire server. Your credit union website will not face any of these issues using a VPS.
Scaling Resources
By its very nature, VPS hosting is a highly scalable solution. All a hosting company needs to do to upgrade or downgrade a VPS is to change the limitations for this VPS in a hypervisor. A guest OS will continue to operate normally using the new hardware quotas after a reboot. This is useful if, before conducting certain tests, you are unable to predict the technical requirements you need.
Cost Effective
VPS services are significantly less expensive than most people realize. It’s anticipated that prices will continue to decrease as a result of advancements in virtualization technologies.
Although it varies from one provider to another, you can anticipate significant financial savings when you switch to a VPS. Prior to selecting a service provider, it is a good idea to check different rates because this will have an effect on your monthly payment.
How we at CUWebsite Services do it?
Our Primary Data Center is located at an AT&T’s SSAE 16 / SSAE 18 (SOC 1 Type II) Facility, just minutes from our headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. We also maintain a second disaster recovery data center at an undisclosed location. Credit union websites are hosted and maintained on two clusters of cloud servers inside their own individual VPS container with all software necessary to run their websites.
Our ironclad containers provide the best level of protection for client websites, rather than being hosted inside shared directories that are offered by our competitors. And by using our VPS system, we have the capability to instantly move credit union websites from one server to another with no downtime.
