A Virtual Dedicated Server is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud offering that enables users to provision an isolated server over the internet. Virtual dedicated servers provides roughly the same functionality and resources as provided by an in- house server but are managed by a cloud service provider on a rental basis. These servers provide an instance of small server up till a full scale server depending upon the resource requirements and the capabilities of the provider.
Virtual dedicated servers are among the most popular cloud service offerings, providing users the ability to lease a managed but dedicated server for developing, deploying and hosting web applications. Once being provisioned to a client, a VDS is not shared with any other customer and hence doesn’t offer multi-tenancy. VDS is a composite of complete server hardware along with the OS, powered by remote access layer which enable end-users to access their server via internet globally. Similar to a virtual private server (VPS), VDS and VPS have slight differences. A VDS provides a remote dedicated server, whereas a VPS is a virtual machine on top of a physical server hosting ther VPS instances and sharing the host machine resources among them.
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