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Learning is something that all of us probably do all of the time, both consciously (by reading newspapers/books/adverts/BBC website) and subconsciously(from surroundings etc.). However, when you want/or need to learn about something new, or to develop your knowledge on certain aspects what is the best way to go about it.

I recently presented at theNetSquaredCamb Meetup group. Here are the presentation slides OSCMS for SMEs, Charities and NGOs.

Getting in the right server for your business; one that will be capable of managing all of your requests and give you space to grow without costing the earth or having a facebook like amount of servers is a tricky bit of business. Here is a quick overview of differing servers and their benefits and disadvantages.

VPS (Virtual Private Servers)

Are servers located on a virtual environment within a host machine. Regularly these have less powerful specifications than a dedicated server and are largely used for website hosting/development server hosting.

Benefits:

Choosing the right server for your drupal site can be a difficult process. What specifications do you need, what about connections/ftp/ssh host reliability and such like? With the plethora or hosting packages available on the internet, probably 10,000+ it can be tricky deciding on what may be best for your site. Here are a few pointers that I think about when choosing hosting/servers.

What is the expectations of your hosting provider?