A virtual private server is a isolated slice of a stand-alone server. Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server for its users and applications. The VPS is powered by 'Parallels Virtuozzo'. It can be rebooted independently and has its own root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries and configuration files. Light overhead and efficient design of Parallels Virtuozzo makes it the right virtualization choice for production servers with live applications and real-life data. Virtual Private Server Hosting from $30.00/mo.

Servmatix Virtual Private Server's offers a good balance between total control (root access privilege) and a tight budget. Having a VPS account is just like operating a dedicated server.

• Total root privilege
• Freedom to install any software and configure your account the way you want it.
• Security
  In a traditional shared hosting environment, one account can access other's files when not secured properly. It is a well known fact that people can read other's passwords located in php files since they are all running under the web server's privilege, and gain access to sensitive data.
• A VPS account (disk space, memory) is totally isolated from other VPS accounts, because each VPS account is located in its own "Virtual Environment". Other VPS accounts can not access your files nor data in the memory. You will have your own copy of apache, dns servers, database server, and user accounts. This VPS security model makes it ideal for secure credit card processing in e-commerce applications.
• Performance guarantee. Servmatix Hosting's VPS utilizes virtualization technology that provides performance guarantee to your VPS account, so that no matter what other VPS's are doing, your VPS environment will continue to receive guaranteed amount of CPU, Memory and network resources.
• Since VPS gives you full root access, you can set up any services, or daemons as you like, such as DNS servers, email servers, web servers, java servlet, database servers and more. Imagine having a dedicated server now with at a very affordable price.

Some more useful information on what Are Virtual Private Servers?

Virtual server technology is a cost effective solution that allows running many virtually isolated standalone servers on one host box and thus saves hardware related capital investments.

• complete root access
• full-featured system administration as of a physical server
• complete independence
• own network configuration
• limitable resource consumption
• administrative tasks
• master admin management

Complete Root Access

Virtual servers have their own root accounts and root directories in sub-directories of the main server, which gives:

• ability to install and run its own application software
• ability to manage own config files
• ability to configure/modify root application software
• ability to delete, add, modify any file, including files in the root server
• full control over all files and processes on the virtual server

Full-Featured System Administration as of a Physical Server

Like physical servers, virtual servers have:

• multiple users and groups
• own user and group quota
• own crontab
• own chkconfig settings

Complete Independence

Virtual private servers are completely isolated from each other and and from their main physical server. Each VPS has:

• complete isolation of virtual server processes, even from the root server
• independence from underlying hardware: virtual servers can be easily moved to another physical server