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Wisconsin's economy is largely agricultural, but the state is also a leader in manufacturing and healthcare. Wisconsin is the number one producer of cheese in the United States, and the third largest producer of dairy products. Several transportation equipment and machinery manufacturers are based in Wisconsin, including Kohler Company, Rockwell Automation, Johnson Controls, Seagrave Fire Apparatus, Pierce Manufacturing, Briggs & Stratton, Miller Electric, Milwaukee Electric Tool Company, Super Steel Products Corp., Oshkosh Truck and Harley Davidson. With twenty-four paper mills between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay, Wisconsin is also the top producer of paper products in the United States.

Milwaukee

Milwaukee has one of the highest per-capita student populations in North America. Fifteen colleges and universities reside in Milwaukee including Marquette University, Mount Mary College and Concordia University. Thirteen Fortune 1000 companies are located in Milwaukee, and the city ranks fifth in the nation for the number of Fortune 500 companies present. Due to the close proximity to Lake Michigan, Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley has historically been home to a multitude of stockyards, shipping plants, manufacturing, rendering plants and other heavy industry.

VPS Basics

VPS or Virtual Private Server Hosting, also called Virtual Dedicated Server Hosting or Dynamic Dedicated Server Hosting, is a form of shared server hosting wherein the server is separated and partitioned to act as though the individual websites are operating off of their own, dedicated, servers. The service is immensely popular because it provides the autonomous freedom of a dedicated server with the reasonable price of a shared server.

VPS Features

A website with a virtual private server has its own IP address, which creates a higher level of security and reliability for email. In addition to higher security, the individual IP address means that sending and receiving email is not hindered by the thousands of emails for other companies being processed by a shared server. VPS allows you to create your own security settings and software in protecting your web site, and you are also free to enable programs and script for your site that might otherwise be prohibited while using a shared server.

Uptime and Downtime

Most internet hosting companies offer uptime guarantees with refunds and discounts if their stated uptime goals (99.9% uptime) are not met. In reviewing their service level agreements, you will find that uptime is actually tied to power-up time -which means that if a situation arises wherein you seek compensation for downtime, the company will claim that because the server had an active power source, that there was no downtime. This can be a frustrating situation in an environment where downtime is a frequent occurrence, but it is less of a hassle with VPS. Each section of the server can be individually rebooted. So you can reboot your website with a remote reboot directly on the interface.