VPS/VDS hosting in Poland

Table of contents

• What is VPS in Poland?
• Methods of virtualization
• OpenVZ
• KVM
• Pros and cons of renting a VPS/VDS in Poland
• Who needs to rent a virtual server
• What to consider when choosing a server
• In what cases it is worth ordering VPS / VDS Poland rental
• What is better to order - VDS and VPS? What is the difference between private and dedicated servers for work in Europe
• What gives VPS / VDS Poland to promote projects?

VPS/VDS rental in Poland is needed to promote projects to the European audience. Also virtual or dedicated servers are needed for remote desktop - RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).

What is VPS in Poland?

Virtual private server (virtual private server) is an opportunity to rent a part of a physical server located in a data center in Poland. On the territory of the country there are large data centers in the cities of Warsaw, Gdynia, Gdansk, Krakow, Rzeszów, etc.

KVM-virtualization technology or its analogues is used to distribute the capacity of a single physical server. As a result, the user gets root rights and access to a virtual / dedicated server with CPU and RAM. VPS / VDS is completely isolated from its neighbors.

Advantages of ordering Virtual Private Server or Virtual Dedicated Server in Poland:

• possibility to promote services and products oriented to Eastern European countries (for example, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, etc.);
• the price of virtual or dedicated servers is affordable (and often more favorable compared to Germany or France);
• access to infrastructure flows (Poland is on the border of the western and eastern worlds).

The country takes all necessary measures to protect IT infrastructure, favorable taxation, support the sphere and ensure data privacy.

Methods of virtualization

Separate software and hardware virtualization.

OpenVZ

OpenVZ is based on the Linux kernel. The technology is characterized by performance, ease of use and ease of management. The user gets at his disposal a convenient and functional control panel, through which the interaction with the server takes place. The client can also increase the capacity of the leased virtual server if desired. The client has the right to choose the operating system - Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu.

KVM

Another virtualization technology is Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM for short, which is a hardware-based way of virtualizing a physical machine that fully imitates the work of a dedicated server.

Each mini-server gets a certain amount of RAM and hard disk space. This guarantees the stability and reliability of your leased solution, but the client will not be able to change the amount of RAM or disk space.

The client has his own virtual server at his disposal, which he can customize and upgrade as he sees fit. This is a solution with Linux kernel installed, but you can install FreeBSD, Windows.

Pros and cons of renting a VPS/VDS in Poland

The virtual server keeps an acceptable cost, while guaranteeing all the benefits that are inherent in a physical server, but at a lower cost. In addition VPS/VDS provides further advantages such as:

• a small subscription fee: if the "project" will not go, you do not risk losing your money investment, because the cost of renting VPS / VDS incomparably small with the cost of renting and even more so the purchase of a physical server;
• independence from the technical component: virtual servers are practically not connected with the technical part, so the failure of server equipment will not affect their performance, but if the breakdown is really serious, it will not be difficult for specialists to transfer databases and other information;
• lack of physical wear and tear: despite the reliability of the physical machine, it wears out over time, you have to repair or replace it, when the virtual server is supported by the provider;
• scalability: if necessary, the client can increase resources by switching to another tariff. So you can increase the amount of RAM, hard disk, all this is easily configurable and adjustable.

This is by no means a complete list of advantages of renting a virtual server in Poland. You will get all the conditions for quality and effective promotion of your resource on the Internet. VPS/VDS guarantees the constant presence of the resource and its availability to users.

Who needs to rent a virtual server

Such a solution can be safely recommended to small online stores, information portals, news sites, whose daily traffic is constantly increasing. Also VPS/VDS will suit companies that need a dynamic resource. In this case, it will be easier to realize it on a virtual or dedicated server.

What to consider when choosing a server

When choosing a VPS/VDS in Poland, be sure to take into account the following criteria:

• controllability: who has the right to manage the work of the virtual server? If it can be done from the user's side, you will need the help of a system administrator;
• configuration: the location of the server determines its speed, performance, so for the European market and audience hosting in Poland is considered ideal;
• reliability: many hosting companies claim uptime 99.9%, but in practice it is not always so. Read reviews about the host before ordering the service.

Another important selection criterion is the work of the support service. It should be available at all times. After all, if there is a problem in the operation of the server on the part of the hoster, they should be eliminated quickly, and you could make a request, reporting the problem.

In what cases it is worth ordering VPS / VDS Poland rental

1. You need to roll your own software to work. As a rule, shared hosting is limited to a set of basic settings that are not enough for a system administrator. For example, you cannot work with Python or Node.js (as a rule, only PHP solutions are available). VPS/VDS rental in Poland is necessary if you make backend on Node or Python.
2. It is necessary to set personal server settings. For example, rebuild the rules of operation or make changes to system files. Virtual hosting does not allow you to do this, so it is better to order a virtual / dedicated server and get root rights. To guarantee data security, it is worth competently distributing the authority of users in the system.
3. You need additional capacity. For example, the project begins to grow (in terms of the number of media files, the number of processes running in parallel, the number of requests to the database, etc.). When hosting fails, 500 errors appear, pages start to load slowly. As a result - the business loses potential users / customers and revenue.

Rent VPS / VDS Poland gives a serious advantage in terms of performance. The volume of traffic is not limited, and you can work in isolated conditions (there is no risk that the service will start to slow down because the "neighbor" has increased resource consumption).

What is better to order - VDS and VPS? What is the difference between private and dedicated servers for work in Europe

In both the first and second cases, we are talking about a virtual machine that is located on a physical server. There can be 2, 3, 5, 7 or more such machines depending on the peculiarities of the data center. Each VM is autonomous, works without binding to "neighbors" and differs by a set of technical characteristics:

• processor
• memory capacity;
• hard disk and so on.

Often the terms VDS and VPS are used as synonyms. For example, in Western countries do not see the difference between VPS and VDS, so they offer 2 services at the same time, and in the offer so and write: "VPS / VDS".

In Eastern Europe and CIS countries there are differences, but the division of Virtual Private Server or Virtual Dedicated Server is often purely nominal.

To connect several virtual machines on one physical server in Poland, KVM technologies or their analogs are used. For virtualization use hypervisor - software that allocates resources and provides access.

What gives VPS / VDS Poland to promote projects?

You can order the lease of a virtual or dedicated server in Poland to:

• install any necessary operating system (for example, Windows, Linux and its distributions);
• choose a convenient control panel (there are free, but you can connect and paid);
• get full access to processes and sockets (+ there is an option to modify the kernel of the operating system).

VPS / VDS Poland can be used to scale projects. For example, it is easy to switch from one tariff plan to another, getting additional capacity (up to renting a physical server). If you have conducted a code-review, optimized processes and eliminated memory leaks (or completely rewritten the project), the increased capacity will not be needed. You can take a cheaper tariff plan and save resources.