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ByteSized VPS

As soon of you might have picked up we've been working hard at our new sister-service ByteSized VPS. As we will soon be starting a more open Beta for existing ByteSized members we feel it's time to tell you a bit more about what a VPS is and who might be interested in one.

Let's start with Wikipedia's definition of a VPS:

"A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is a method of splitting a server. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted."

A VPS is a server in a server as it were, it operates as a dedicated server; you have complete administrator access, can reboot it, can re-install it and can choose what ever operating system you would like, it even comes with your own dedicated IP.

Now why would you want a VPS?

1. Complete freedom to do whatever you would like, since you have administrative access there is no limit to the applications you could run on it. Want to host a website; install a webserver. Want to setup an irc-server? Then do so!
2. Better resource management, the technologies that make VPS's work comes with a whole set of resource management tools this way we can make sure each user gets the resources it deserves;
3. Dedicated IP; some trackers still have problems from connections from a shared ip, having a dedicated IP resolves this issue.
4. Better monitor tools; You can check out how much bandwidth you used this month, what your load averages are like and how much memory you are using.
5. Ready to Rock Templates; Because we know not everybody is a Linux guru but would like to use a VPS because of the other pro's we created two ready to rock Desktop/Seedbox templates. Setup with rTorrent/ruTorrent / Deluge  or Transmission and all kinds of other handy tools. You can check out the wiki for screenshots and application list.

Now sadly it's not all fun and games and there are some cons as well.

• It's more expensive; IP's and the new management system means higher overhead costs.
• Less support; With great power comes great responsibility. The stuff we deliver in our custom templates should work out of the box and if not we will provide support for it but everything that goes beyond this, you do at your own risk. We'll do our best, but we can't provide support for every application there is.

Once we go out of BETA we should have VPS's in different countries, so far we are trying to get servers in France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and The USA.

Existing members should keep a close eye on the news. We will post initial pricing soon and we will also start adding some more people to the BETA.