- Souliennes of the survey on the web liquid 951 Diseurs and technical users on their habits
- Almost half of VPS users have left a supplier due to poor support
- Availability guarantees and complete admin control are key characteristics
A new Liquid Web study, one of our choices for the best web hosting suppliers, revealed a growing trend for companies to promote virtual private servers (VP).
The study revealed that 27% of non-VPS users plan to migrate to a virtual private server in the next 12 months, those using shared accommodation most likely to migrate.
Among those who already use private servers, 90% say they would recommend this type of accommodation mainly due to root access. Cloud platform users seem mainly motivated by costs to change, those who use dedicated accommodation are unhappy with the performance of their server, and shared accommodation users are frustrated by restrictions on configuration options.
Virtual private servers are now more accessible than ever
The study also revealed for which companies use private servers. Almost half use VPS servers to host websites and applications, while 15% use servers to deploy or refine AI models.
Other uses include game accommodation (such as minecraft accommodation), automation scripts, customer projects and the execution of electronic commerce stores.
VPS servers are traditionally the choice of the essential server for the most technical users, but the results show that they are increasingly used by amateurs.
Professionals and IT developers are even more likely to use a VPS (50% of respondents) with 58% of accommodation or applications, 45% using servers for DevOPS tests and 31% reports to use VPs for automation scripts.
A growing percentage are amateurs (19% of respondents) with 58% using servers for games, 42% for the accommodation of sites and applications, and 18% accommodation for discord bots.
The growing trend for using the VPS could be due to the large amount of tutorials on the web. 65% of respondents said they learned using online tutorials and trials and errors. Only 31% had formal training. This does not mean that help is not appreciated because almost half of VPS users have left a supplier because they did not receive the necessary support.
Windows was the most preferred operating system for 36% of users, Ubuntu picked up 28% of users and hundred for 9% of respondents.
The growth of VPS is not too surprising since the servers offer better reliability and better configurability than shared accommodation and not have the same general cost of dedicated and cloud accommodation while keeping the same performance and scalable.
“The future of accommodation consists in providing the affordability of shared, control of dedicated and the scalability of the cloud. VPS is the bridge, and the managers who invest now will be best placed for growth,” noted Ryan Macdonald, technology director at Liquid Web.
