You will have an option to select an operating system for your Windows VPS and this is where many of the customers get confused as to which operating system should be chosen for their server. Operating system can be chosen by the customer according to his/her needs. Below are some of the features of each operating system version which will help you to select the operating system version for your Windows VPS :
1) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
This version of Windows is a good one for small and large servers as this will allow you to have an enterprise platform for your Windows VPS. This version is suitable for most of the business applications and large scale virtualization. It also includes hardware seperation capabilities which are not present in many of the operating system versions. This version also helps the organizations to reduce the costs and improve the profits as it has the capability of merging virtualization applications and thus reducing the licensing costs for the applications. It provides a strong platform for the organizations to create an enterprise virtualization and scale solutions.
2) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
This edition has some features which are similar to the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition. However, it has some features which are different also. Clustering is supported including hot add processor capabilities. It also has management features which will help you to increase the security level. It also helps the organizations to reduce the costs by minimizing the licensing costs of the applications by merging them together. This is a highly dynamic operating system edition and this can provide organizations with a good infrastructure.
3) Windows Server 2008 Standard
This version is considered to be the best version till date. The reason for this is the features which are included with this operating system. It has many virtualization capabilities which will help you to enhance the server quality and performance which will result in cost and time reduction for your and your company. It also includes features which will give your greater control over your server and also have some amazing management features which will help you to manage your server very well. Also, the security features will make the operating features very secure so that you do not face any problem with the server. These and many more features makes this version highly dependable.
4) Windows Web Server 2008
This version is considered to be the next generation operating system as it has many features and it is designed to be used for a high and single purpose web server. It includes new version of IIS 7.0, ASP.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework which allows any organization to create dynamic web pages and services directly without any problem.
5) Windows HPC Server 2008
This version is claimed to be the Next generation version for High Performance Computing as it provides an enterprise platform and includes many features for High Performance of the server. It includes thousands of features which will help you monitor your system and make your system stable enough. It is flexible enough to cope up the Windows and Linux based HPC platforms and this makes it different from other operating systems which are available. It also supports batch and service oriented applications which is yet another benefit of this version.
6) Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
This version is basically for the servers with high requirements with large databases and custom applications as this version is very good at handling large databases with delivering high performance to meet the needs of the server. It is highly dependable and capable of proving itself for mission critical tasks. It can also handle upto 64 processors and this good as it comes with so many features.
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