Is a VPS Slower Than a Dedicated?

wondering if I made a mistake going to a VPS

[old_expat]

If this is too far off topic, I apologize, but I figure the folks in this section know more about servers than anywhere else.

I'm on an Apache VPS and wondering if a dedicated might be better?

My hosting company made some changes a few months back and my sites seem significantly slower. I have 256 guaranteed RAM

Could be my imagination, of course.

[jdMorgan]

A VPS is a shared server, whereas a dedicated server means your site is the only one hosted on it.

If your site is not getting *huge* traffic and it's still slow, that means the other hosted sites are consuming the server's resources. You could ask the hosting co. to look into this, or ask them to move you to another VPS server that's less busy. If you are getting huge traffic, and can afford the fees, then a dedicated server would be preferable.

Jim

[Matt Probert]

When you say your site is slower do you mean running scripts or transfering? It may be that the host has too many sites connected to a single data cable, rather than the machine hosting the VPS being over worked.

Though of course a dedicated server by its nature can dedicate all its work to your site!

Matt

[old_expat]

"When you say your site is slower do you mean running scripts or transfering?"

Basically, page loading. I work hard to keep the page size small so that it will load fast, but some pages do have mySQL queries.

I have about 20 sites on 9 different IPs .. with a wide range of pages served per day .. all the way from 50 pages per day to 5000 ..

I know that isn't huge.

When I really notice a delay is trying to open CPanel. Sometimes it is dead slow.

What makes me a bit wary as well, is that a couple of months ago, I started getting cron errors from the server. Support tells me "no problem", but something has obviously changed.

yesterday I tried to log in to one specific IP via ssh using Putty and after username and password I got a -bash-2.05b$

I have no idea what that means.