The traditional price differences between a dedicated server and a shared hosting package has driven many website owners to choose shard hosting solutions over dedicated servers at the expense of performance and the level of control they require to properly manage their site. But with dedicated servers running into the hundreds of dollars a month while shared hosting packages typically cost only a few dollars, you can't really blame them. There is an alternate solution though which not many people know about. Network Solutions offers their clients what are called Virtual Private Servers. A virtual private server functions just like a dedicated server and enables website owners root access to the server and the flexibility of a dedicated server. While there are other virtual servers on the same machine, it is set up via software to emulate a dedicated server and function as one. As far as anyone connected to the virtual server is concerned, the other sites hosted on the same machine are irrelevant and do not affect the site or the server. As far as price is involved, the cost for a virtual dedicated server ranges from $50-$100, slightly higher than shard hosing but much more affordable compared to a dedicated server.