A Dedicated web site IP is required for Secure Transactions.

On a regular hosting server, your email will be sent from the same IP as everyone else and if any of them have sent spam, this may result in your own mail being blocked by spam filters. Webcity Private Servers all come with a dedicated mail server IP address which we guarantee to be 'clean'.

With regular hosting you share memory/cpu etc with other users on the server, regular VPS providers usually guarantee memory but not CPU.

The high cost of enterprise grade SAN disk systems means most hosting and VPS providers use regular hard disk systems. At Webcity, all our storage is on high speed SANs with multiple backups and snapshots, greatly reducing the likelyhood of data loss.

With regular hosting, you share the same processing space, so other users can crash, slow down or overload the web server, thus affecting your own web site.

With regular hosting, you share the same firewall rules and the same Blocked IP lists as everyone else. A Private Server allows you to chose what IPs and ports to block or allow.

With regular hosting, you must share the same versions of software libraries. A Private Server allows you to select which version you want and what extra modules you want installed.

The single biggest problem with a regular VPS is that you need to manage it, ie configure it, keep software updated, fix problems. Very few people have the time or ability to do this properly.