3. Motivation Select a provider of Virtual Private Server services for production sites
4. Trade-off method Scoring model Identify several hosting services offering Virtual Private servers Identify several characteristics Assign weight for each one Fragment each characteristic in 5 sections Assign a score for each section Calculate the weighted mean of each service
5. Selection Criteria Note: This criteria is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different criteria and weight.
6. Scores Fragmentation (1) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
7. Scores Fragmentation (2) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
8. Scores Fragmentation (3) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
9. Scores Fragmentation (4) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
10. Scores Fragmentation (5) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
11. Scores Fragmentation (6) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
12. Scores Fragmentation (7) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
13. Scores Fragmentation (9) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
14. Scores Fragmentation (8) Note: This fragmentation is according to the author’s needs. Your case may have different ranges.
16. Conclusions Usually pick one of the top 3 DEDIBOX is not a well known provider Gandi the company selected by the author for a test-drive SliceHost is 4th Users of SliceHost, that agree with the criteria and score fragmentation, are not advised to migrate the cost of change can be higher than the benefit)