VPS vs. VM

A VPS is a VM.

The distiction is usually that a VPS is hosted somewhere else and a VM on your own computer.

Calling all VPS customers to take the VM challenge. If you’re currently using VPS (or in the market for one), you should consider choosing a VM instead. A VM is a virtual machine running on VMware vSphere 4.1. Compared to VPS (virtual private server running on Parallels or Xen), it has many advantages. vSphere is THE enterprise choice for virtualization, as evidenced by its adoption by 95% of the Fortune 1000 companies. It offers the most robust platform for virtual hosting, and you will absolutely love its performance. vSphere requires higher-end hardware on which to run. Winky offers VMs delivered over our state-of-the-art infrastructure housed inside One Wilshire Data Center. We are located at the Internet core, with impressive ping times.

If you are an existing VMware Workstation or Fusion user, you can upload your VM to Winky and seize the benefits of computing on Winky’s secure cloud. vSphere has a larger downloadable appliance community than Xen. So if you need a creative solution to meet a requirement, you can take advantage of the many appliances that are available for VMs. Furthermore, most VPS providers typically use locally attached hard drives which leads to contention for resources. With Winky, your data storage is delivered via Fibre Channel SAN

VPS = Virtual Private Server
VM = Virtual Machine

They are basically the same

VPS is the cheaper option.

There is no big difference between VM (Virtual Machine) and VPS (Virtual Private Server). They are similar. VM provides platform for building internal cloud infrastructures and federating to external clouds. VM is used on your own machine while VPS is hosted on some other machine.

In VPS all domains can share common resources like RAM and CPU. VPS Hosting service is when one's Web site is placed on the same windows server as many other sites.

A VPS is a VM.

Your get your own server, where you can install your own software and configure it the way you want. But it is not running as a single computer. The server software is running together with a load of other servers on one big machine.

The advantage for you is cheaper hosting, while still having your own server environment. When your site gets busier, you can buy more memory or more processing power, without having to reload your site onto a new machine.

I have one and it's great.

Heh, VM or VPS is actually the same thing. Like for example you can have your virtual machine based on the cloud platform or you can have those two names in the ordinary virtualization solutions. It is all the same.

VPS is to VM as "Florida Orange" is to fruit.

VPS stand for Virtual Private Servers meanwhile VM is used for Virtual Machines or Virtual Dedicated Servers. Each offer something different: Virtual private server (VPS) is a term used by internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine; A virtual machine is a software implementation of a machine that executes programs like a physical machine.

VPN stands for virtual private network, meanwhile VPS stand for Virtual Private Server. VPN allows you to access your desktop remotely. VPS is a slice of a webserver with your own instance of OS, CPU, memory.

This term confuses many people, but in general VPS is hosted on a server and VM is hosted on your own computer. VM is not always expensive, try virtualbox.org it is free to use.

The common word "virtual" comes into play. In computer speak this actually means pretending to be something else. So a virtual private server is pretending to be a private server which in reality means you get a slice of the actual server which is shared with other virtual private server slices. A virtual machine is more encompassing, you can have a virtual machine on a Windows OS that operates as a Linux OS and is virtually undetectable as being actually present on the Windows OS and vice versa. You can have a virtual machine that is a differing version of the same OS so that you can test the strengths and weaknesses of the versions. A virtual machine can also act as a VPS which has been pointed out and many major businesses are deploying individual Linux servers in this manner. I hope this helps.

Almost same..
Virtual Private Server & Virtual Machine..
First one cheaper than 2nd one..

As i know

VPS = Virtual Private Server
VM = Virtual Machine

The concept behind server virtualization is a specific example of the same concepts that led to the development of time-sharing and multiprogramming. Generally, client users tend to ask for computer resources in a "bursty" fashion, demanding fast-as-possible response to requests, but then entering long periods of no activity while they examine the results.

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VPS= Virtual Private Server and it was a child of Dedicated Server and Dedicated Server is born from a Collocation Server on a Data Center. If You have a dedicated server, then You can make a VPS. And VM is shorten from "Virtual Machine", From the words I cannot separate the VPS and VM as deference thing because it was same point but on function and defernt on uses. The VM is more flexible mean, a company who sell VM services/ products can selling VPS, but If a Company named with VPS it will not seen as VM Seller. I know my english language is bad, but I hope it can be useful later.