Has anyone ever used VPS?

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

Just heard about these and would seem great to use with some of my campaigns. It is basically renting a computer somewhere else and using it remotely. So for example: your computer is not exactly packed with ram and doesnt have a high end processor, you can rent a computer somewhere else in the world that does and use it remotely from yours to run marketing software or whatever you need it for.
Has anyone used a service like this? Can you share your experience with VPS and point me in the direction of some good ones?
Thanks in advance.

 

[2211]

What you're describing is the original concept for CLOUD COMPUTING. The idea was to rent a supercomputer that allows you to do your job without building or buying such a system. They still are working on that system but the storage option that we have today is a lighter interpretation of this.

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

What you're describing is the original concept for CLOUD COMPUTING. The idea was to rent a supercomputer that allows you to do your job without building or buying such a system. They still are working on that system but the storage option that we have today is a lighter interpretation of this.

Yeah I see the relation. Thanks for the post.

 

[BlkStrength]

I've always used hostgator but for webhosting. I've never had any downtime and this is for the years I've been with them. I haven't heard anything bad about their VPS servers either.

 

[The Untouchable GDFOLKS]

So host gator offers VPS? Thanks I need to check that out.