VPS vs VDS: the difference is steal time

“VPS” and “VDS” are marketing words for two scheduling models. Everything else — disk, network, panel — is usually identical.

VPS: fair-share scheduling

Your vCores are time-sliced against other tenants with a fair-share scheduler. For 90% of workloads you will never notice. Under sustained load at the same time as a noisy neighbour, you will.

VDS: pinned cores

Physical cores are assigned to your instance alone. No stealing, no ballooning, flat latency graphs. It costs more because the host cannot resell that capacity.

How to choose

Web apps, bots, panels and small game servers: VPS. Databases under constant load, CI fleets, 200+ player networks, anything where a 40 ms stall is visible to users: VDS.

Try it yourself. Every plan runs on the hardware discussed here — game hosting from ₹299/month with NVMe storage and 1 Tbps DDoS protection. Compare plans or ask us on Discord.