1: How do you access the VPS (is it through a website or do you have to download it, etc)?
Trough a pannel that the vps company provides or trough your computer
2: Should you use a VM (Virtual Machine) to run the VPS?
Dosent mather
3: To run a small goldfarm of 4-6 bots what should the specs be like?
dosent mather it only uses 256m Ram as far as i know
4: Are they safe?
Yes they are safe.
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5: If you have VIP and use a VPS how do you run multiple bots without getting the "Too many connections from your address" error that runescape gives?
im not a vip i just open up a few clients with random details and i have never goten that error , and if u want a cheep vps pm me its only 10dollars a month with 1GB Ram