Hopefully by now, you’ve probably noticed the new website design. We released it this weekend, but didn’t post an update about it until now as we were still testing some website functions / integration with the client area. Along with this new release, we’ve finally taken off the cover of our latest project - Virtual Shared technology.
Virtual Shared is a new hosting service exclusively from VectorLevel poised to completely change your perception of shared hosting. Our virtualized platform allows each server to dynamically scale its available resources based on real-time usage levels. Experience the next level of shared hosting right here. Please visit our website for more information. Current customers have been on this platform ever since the last migration on October 5th and based on the fantastic reports that we’ve received from customers, we’ve deemed it ready for public signups.
Another important change is that we’ve added Los Angeles, CA as our primary datacenter / network location, but we still have a presence in Dallas, Texas at the Colo4Dallas facility. You can view more information on our network page.
That’s all the updates we have for you now, but don’t worry - we’ve got plenty of things being worked on behind the scenes and will continue to expand our web hosting services and change how things are done in this industry.
Thanks! Have a great week everyone.
this sounds very intriguing…
Always nice to hear more good news!
Your service and support has been outstanding.
Best wishes, and may your quality grow!
Hi,
I’m a little confused as to what this virtual shared hosting is. Is each shared hosting account on a separate virtual instance? Are they load balanced? What does virtual mean exactly? i.e. what’s different about VectorLevel’s shared accounts from any other company….
Dan B.
Wow. This is hardly revolutionary when all you’re doing is renting VPS accounts and putting your clients on them. When you say 50 clients per server, that’s 50 clients per VPS. That’s very misleading… I don’t think you have a very serious platform here. Just my opinion of course! Hopefully you won’t be silly like some hosts and delete this comment.
TheBundo, there’s no reason we would delete your comment. Your statement is only half true as we already stated that these were virtualized servers but that’s not what defines this service. We have a custom system (already stated as well) to manage each server’s resources based on usage patterns. As for the comment regarding 50 clients per VPS, these are very powerful virtual slices equivalent to high-end dedicated servers and thus, 50 clients regardless of virtualization is unheard of at almost all other companies. I’m fairly confident that any of our customers can attest to the high performance of their websites and that’s what matters to them.
Thanks.
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Jeff Marlin
Chief Technology Officer
I believe I understand how you run this. If I am not wrong you should be running on KnownHost’s Hybrid VPS (http://www.knownhost.com/services/hy-vps.html).
What you meant by “scaling” for is the burstable RAM and CPU (priority). You state 50 clients per VPS but I noticed that you are having at least 80 domains on the sydney server. I believe this is due to the unlimited domains option which you forgot to mention.
Very “revolutionary”… please delete my comment if you feel that it is offensive or will affect your business, but you may see these in major hosting forums soon if the comment is deleted…
Jack,
Thank you for your comments. We do not remove comments simply because we don’t agree with their contents.
Our scalability is NOT based on the burstable RAM and CPU that comes with KnownHost’s plans, but rather our own software to monitor and control how our customers are using the server’s resources and allow us to quickly add more resources or move around clients seamlessly as needed.
50 clients per VPS or server is a maximum limit - it doesn’t mean every server will have exactly 50 customers. Compare that to hundreds or thousands per server at many other companies and that’s the reason we market this limit. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say regarding 80 domains… we clearly advertise offering unlimited domains on our website. We don’t simply place 50 random accounts on every server and then just move on to a new server. Each server is monitored constantly to make sure it’s underloaded - it would be silly to place 50 high resource accounts on one single server. You can easily check our CPU load averages on our public server status page. Thus, I don’t see how you reach the conclusion that our unlimited domains offer conflicts with our *limit* of 50 clients per server.
We have not received any complaints from our customers regarding the performance of our servers but rather the contrary. We are providing exactly what we’re marketing and unless our customers begin to complain about the performance of their websites, I don’t see where we are misleading our customers in any degree.
Thank you for taking the time to discuss our offering. Again, your comment is not going to be removed so we would really appreciate it if you didn’t threaten us with anything.
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Jeff Marlin
Chief Technology Officer
That sounds really nice, glad it’s being put to good use. Woohoo internet tubes are getting declogged!
I believe Jeff has clearly summed it up. I have gone ahead and removed “revolutionary” from our website regarding this service as it seems a few of you strongly disagree and it’s simply not worth it for us to argue over the definition of revolutionary. I apologize to anyone if our marketing terms were unsatisfactory but I would like to once again emphasize that we are providing exactly what we’re marketing and our customer-base can easily attest to that.
Thank you for your time.
Isn’t it marketing talk if:
you claim you put 50 clients on a server max
while there are 80 on a VPS
and isn’t every shared hosting environment dynamically scaling resources based on usage patterns?
Jasper,
Of course, this is marketing - everyone does it, but we keep it as real as possible. Again though, there are around 80 *domains* hosted on sydney, not clients. And no, not every shared hosting environment scales its maximum amount of resources available (especially memory) to clients.
How do you dynamically add memory?
Ofcourse it does! It’s shared hosting after all isn’t it? If I need a portion of the server resources, I get it. If you need it, you get it as well. If you need more, you get more and if you need less… well you get less. That’s dynamic scaling, isn’t it?
Sure, I guess you could say that! Here’s another situation though. Every customer is using more of their share of the resources and you reach the server’s maximum limit (of memory for example). Then, you start running into swap and everything starts to slow down noticeably. We have a system setup to scale the memory usage past its previous limit (which has now been passed) and remain fully guaranteed (not burstable memory). That’s what we’re referring to.
I’m very intrigued by the shared hosting offering of your new company. I’ve been hosting a personal site and business site for my IT consulting for years and have been less than impressed by the hosting companies that I have used. Their support has been pretty much useless. I like the way upper management responds to posts on the company blog. I think the way you are running shared hosting is exactly the way it should happen. I’m going to give it a try.