A lot of our customers have asked us what vSlice is, how it is different to the other offerings already out there, and why it would benefit their business. This post will attempt to answer all those questions and more!

What is vSlice?

Getting a vSlice is very much like having your own physical server. You can choose your operating system, run your own applications and you get full control over its operation. However, unlike a physical server you don’t have to worry about the hardware underneath. Using special software, we partition a powerful physical server into many smaller slices. Each slice runs inside a virtual environment (called a virtual machine, or as we like to call them, vSlice).

Since the resources are dedicated you don’t have to worry about fighting other users for CPU, RAM or Disk; this makes your site load a lot more quickly and increases reliability.

How vSlice differs from other providers

A lot of other providers offer similar services – “VPS”, “VDS”, and “virtual private servers” are some of the marketing terms. On face value these seem to be very similar to vSlice but there are major differences between the two technologies:

1. vSlice is a high uptime, always on service. Your vSlice can move between different servers while it is live and if a server breaks then it will escape to a spare server automatically and be back up in minutes. With other providers you would be stuck on the broken server and face hours of downtime.
2. vSlice guarantees CPU and RAM. During busy periods your vSlice will realize that the server is congested and will shift itself to a less busy server. Without vSlice you would be stuck on a server with many other VPS and your site would slow down dramatically.
3. vSlice can scale very quickly. As you grow you may need to add more performance to your server in the form of extra RAM, CPUs or disk. We can upgrade your vSlice with just one reboot – compare that to trying to upgrade a physical server and the downtime and hassle that would cause.

Real Life Examples

We have collected a few examples from actual customers so you can see how they have benefited from their own vSlice.  Names were changed to protect the innocent!

Sue – Art Products eStore

Sue has a busy eStore. She sells art supplies to the Australian public directly from her online store. With the amount of products the store sells it was  quickly outgrowing a shared hosting environment – product pages were taking a long time to display and during checkout the transaction would fail to process, causing Sue to lose sales.

MD migrated Sue’s eStore to a vSlice and the difference was dramatic. Pages now load almost instantly and customers get a smooth experience from selection through to payment.  Sue has seen a healthy increase in sales as a result.

Tony – Shared Office

Tony runs a professional agency. During the day up to a dozen staff will access accounting files, collaborate on documents and process work for clients. Tony needed a central, ‘always on’ environment that staff could access to efficiently go about their daily duties. Since Tony has no dedicated IT personnel he needed a managed solution where he did not have to worry about running a piece of hardware and making sure it was working properly.

Since purchasing vSlice Tony has put on more  staff.  We were able to upgrade his RAM and CPU to handle the additional work without a hiccup.

Geoffrey – Online Stock Trader

Geoffrey is big on share market trading. Every day he downloads up to the minute information on hundreds of different stocks.  Geoffrey needed something more powerful and reliable than his home PC and internet connection. We specced out a vSlice that was able to handle up to 10 simultaneous trading screens, allowing Geoffrey to collect data 24×7 and trade with confidence.

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