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    Many companies offer virtual private server hosting or virtual dedicated server hosting as an extension for web hosting services. There are several challenges to consider when licensing proprietary software in multi-tenant virtual environments.
    With unmanaged or self managed hosting, the customer is left to administer his own server instance. However, there are two more types of hosting as well; semi-managed hosting and fully managed hosting, but again the main difference between these three hosting relies on the type of assistance offered from the server side. In semi-managed, there is a control panel interface for helping users in managing the Linux server whereas in fully managed hosting, the complete maintenance is offered from server side.
    Unmetered hosting is generally offered with no limit on the amount of data-transferred on a fixed bandwidth line. Usually, unmetered hosting is offered with 10 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s or 1000 Mbit/s (with some as high as 10Gbit/s). This means that the customer is theoretically able to use 3.33~ TB on 10 Mbit/s, 33~ TB on 100 Mbit/s and 333~ TB on a 1000 Mbit/s line per month (although in practice the values will be significantly less). In a virtual private server, this will be shared bandwidth and (should) mean there is a fair usage policy involved. Unlimited hosting is also commonly marketed but generally limited by acceptable usage policies and terms of service. Offers of unlimited disk space and bandwidth are always false due to cost, carrier capacities and technological boundaries.
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