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Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting is like driving in the middle lane – not exactly the dedicated fast track, but unlike the inferior shared hosting lane too. Right now however, the VPS path is looking wide open, with more and more choosing that route over shared and dedica

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

ted solutions. TopHosts examines why the trend continues and what to expect down the road.

With a VPS plan, small businesses can take advantage of dedicated services for about the same cost as a high-end shared solution. Simply put, VPS is a server within a server, allowing

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

eb hosts to partition a single unit into multiple “virtual” machines. It acts as a dedicated server but, like a shared solution, the cost of hardware and software is distributed across many clients.

VPS Popularity Surging

John Enright, Vice President of Mar

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

eting for Affinity Internet’s Gate.com, believes VPS hosting is currently taking off and will gradually steal more and more business away from dedicated and shared.

“Every year VPS plans become a more appealing alternative to high-end shared hosting customers and a more attr

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ctive alternative to dedicated solutions,” Enright said. “VPS is truly carving out its own niche and I think in the next 5 years it will overtake shared and dedicated servers, which are the options of choice right now.”

One of the primary forces driving the VPS rush, accordi

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

g to Enright, is the evolving technology behind it. When the virtualization concept began about six years ago, servers could not maintain a significant amount of customers, and the servers that did so were “high end” making it unappealing to end users and Web hosts alike. The

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

Virtualization of servers also once demanded more resources and required a great deal of overhead costs.

Finer VPS Technology

Today however, VPS servers are vastly more powerful, with almost no overhead costs associated with it Enright explained. Prominent

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

VPS management software programs, such as SWsoft’s Virtuozzo, Plesk, Ensim, H-Sphere or Sphera, have also come a long way. “VPS remote management interfaces are incredible these days, and they’re so powerful and easy to use,” Enright said. “The technology’s open to so many mo

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

e right now.”

Thanks to the improved technology surrounding VPS solutions, Web hosts are finding it easier to offer it, which is in turn driving prices down and making it available to a wider market. With technology also delivering much more power and convenience, the servic

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

is becoming just about as attractive as a dedicated service, at a much lower cost.

A Happy Medium

Will Childs is Director of Partnerships for Canada Web Hosting (CWH), a leading provider north

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

f the U.S. border. Childs says VPS hosting plans are growing in popularity every day because it supplies customers with a happy medium, for less cost.

“If you look at virtualization technology today, it’s coming into maturity,” Childs said. “Most developers in today’s climat

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

e don’t necessarily want to initially invest in a fully managed dedicated service without test driving the hosting organization first. On the flip side they don’t want to go through a shared platform either. VPS let’s them focus on developing rather than managing.”

Childs ex

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

lained that evolving VPS technology is providing many of the same advantages of a dedicated solution. Every day, developers and small businesses are growing more comfortable with the power and capabilities of a VPS solution, Childs said, which also keeps them free from having

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

to manage a larger infrastructure environment.

Difference from Dedicated Minimal

According to Enright of Affinity, there’s virtually no difference between a VPS plan and many dedicated server solutions out there right now, thanks to improved technology. He

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ays today’s virtualization isolates clients extremely well from others on the “box” and – unlike being in a shared environment where too much CPU or bandwidth consumption affects a client’s Web performance – VPS customers are rarely impacted negatively in any way.

“A couple

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

f years ago, VPS might not have been as fast as dedicated, but that’s no longer the case. I would say there’s no difference between your typical VPS account and a low-end dedicated server plan,” Enright said. “When you log into a VPS you have root access and when you run typi

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

al Unix commands you can’t tell if it’s VPS or dedicated these days.”

A Stepping Stone

With technology improving and VPS costs coming down, many more are also looking to VPS as a stepping-stone or the next best thing after a shared hosting plan, or as a ste

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

before investing in a dedicated plan. Childs of CWH says it’s very common these days for clients to outgrow their shared plan and ask to migrate over to a VPS account.

Childs also noted that more and more Web hosting providers themselves are offering VPS as a stepping-stone

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

to improve and enhance their own business. Growing companies, that want to offer more services but can’t quite compete in the dedicated hosting arena, see VPS platforms as a great opportunity.

“VPS hosting is a very hot market right now, because many hosting companies that

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

re growing at the moment want to jump from a shared hosting company to something with bigger revenue potential,” Childs said. “Moving into the high-end dedicated market may be quite a jump, so a lot of companies are using VPS as a stepping stone for their own internal growth.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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