Monitoring Servers a Must for VPS Clients

When I migrated my websites to a Virtual Private Hosting because my sites’ demand had grown up so much that a shared hosting plan could no longer meet my needs, I had a shock in my life. In VPS, the entire setup was different from a shared hosting accounting. My host gave me access to the root server and helped me set up WHM. I did myself the setting up of cPanel.

I thought that was all of it. But not entirely. I became more aware that in VPS I have more tasks to do for my sites than when I was with a shared webhosting plan. I had to get into a routine Linux Server Monitoring, which comprises of monitoring cpu usage, memory, access logs, MySQL throughput, and the likes. It was not easy at first. I was not familiar with all these new features. From time to time I had to contact my host and asked them boldly of the things that I found very strange. It’s good that my webhosting company was patient with me. I told them that I was a newbie on apache and linux stuff. They understood my ignorance and the host was always quick in responding to my support email tickets.

Perhaps when I am already an expert of linux hosting, I will also try Windows Hosting on a VPS account, although this may also entail a new face of Windows Server Monitoring, which has a different setup with Linux. But that is part of the learning process of being a baby webmaster. We learn new things every day if we are willing to commit ourselves, and I’m happy with my decision of migrating my sites to a VPS. Soon the possibility of having a dedicated server is not remote.