VPS: What It Is and How It's Useful @ Techgage

Virtualization is one of those things that the mainstream public rarely needs to think about, mainly because it doesn't concern them.  Or does it?

Techgage takes on the task of taming the tactical advantage of turning a PC into something more useful.  (teehee )

We've talked a fair bit about home virtualization in the past, but now we're going to take a different turn and tackle VPSs, or "Virtual Private Servers". In essence, a VPS is a virtual machine in the cloud, allowing you to log in from anywhere and gain nearly full control over a remote machine with tons of bandwidth to do a variety of cool things.

Developers and programmers often will use virtual OS installs so they can mimic the environment they are developing for.  Doing so makes things easier especially when their target environment is radically different or has driver dependencies.

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