About how to identify standalone servers and VPS

There are a lot of space providers who are shoddy, and many customers are unclear about the server and vps, causing many customers to suffer losses; here is a general discussion of how to distinguish between independent servers and vps. Generally speaking, the characteristics of vps and server respectively: 1, VPS: shared memory consumption is relatively large, the actual available disposable memory is only 60% of the original. Standalone server: Fully independent control, 100% memory independent usage rights.

2, VPS: shared hard disk, memory, CPU and other hardware facilities. Standalone server: The server hardware devices are all enjoyed by themselves.

3, VPS: Mysql database can run at least 384, Mssql database can run at least 512M independent server: Mysql128M can be, Mssql256M can run

4, VPS: general ordinary sql site running Can not exceed 6 to prevent overloading. Standalone server: Run multiple mysql or mssql sites smoothly.

5, VPS: completely dependent on the parent system, multi-user shared parent system Independent server: Each operating system is completely independent, remote management is basically the same as its own PC.

ok roughly analyzed the difference between vps and server, so it is easy to distinguish whether it is a stand-alone server or vps, and now give you several methods:

1, look at the hardware Facilities; do vps on a server, need a high-configuration machine, so the vps cpu are relatively high, generally quad-core, but the memory and hard disk is small, the memory is generally 512M and 1G mostly; hard disk 20G, 30G, 40G mostly; if the machine is rented higher CPU, but the memory and hard disk is relatively low, it is likely to be virtual vps, no one is so stupid X, CPU is so high, and the hard disk is only a little bit, you must know The CPU is much more expensive than the hard disk and memory. 2, test software; you can install a test software on the server, such as the driver wizard, you can evaluate the hardware facilities of the machine, so it is clear at a glance; 3, see the system process; because vps is dependent on its host, regardless of In the vps process, there is a process of hosting the software in the vps process. For example, using VM running, whether it is on the host or on the VM, there will be VM processes. 4, NT system can open "Device Manager", you will find a big difference. Focus on the key devices such as “hard disk, network card”. If you look at the hard disk, network card, etc., you can see the physical name. If you look at the vps, you can see the name of the virtualization tool. For example, the hard disk simulated by Hyper-V will be called Virtual HD ATA Device. The network card will be called Microsofe virtual machine bus network adapter and so on. But here we must pay attention to it, the technical space provider will deal with the details very well, whether the hardware name of Vmware or Hyper-V simulation can be changed, it can be manually specified, but this modification is also Not so easy, so most of the current is still the default, better to distinguish. In short, as long as you carefully explore the difference, you can be distinguished. At present, most of the VPS is sold as a stand-alone server mainly in Hong Kong servers, Taiwan servers, and the United States, because these operating costs are much higher. Still, if you have expensive reasons, don't be greedy and cheap.