VPS Hosting Definition

Now it has become very simple to make an online portal by yourself with all the charge-free web design templates that are obtainable on the web together with cost-free software applications that are suitable even for inexperienced users. So, many brand new websites are being created each day, incl. online blogs - where the moderator can debate on various topics that suggest themselves, and web galleries - where everyone can share pics and the stories behind them on the World Wide Web. These web sites must be hosted someplace and one apt web hosting choice is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS means Virtual Private Server and it works like a dedicated web server as far as management is concerned because you are provided with complete root-level access with an option to restart the VPS distantly. The VPS hosting shares system resources with other virtual private web hosting servers that are hosted on the same physical server. This results in a remarkably cheap price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is actually more similar to shared web hosting packages as far as prices are concerned.

Kinds of VPS Hosting

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary depending on various features, but the Operating System is possibly the most perceptible difference. Here we have the two most important types:

Windows VPS hosting - a private virtual server platform running Windows that will permit apps which need Windows to perform smoothly to be installed on the VPS web hosting server.

Linux VPS hosting - a VPS web server system running Linux is the more widely used variety that you can discover on the World Wide Web since it is more affordable to build and handle and hence it is more sought after.

VPS servers are also very popular with resellers and you can come across two modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller purchases a private virtual hosting server and begins selling shared plans that are hosted on the virtual server. It is similar to the standard reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller has full server root access and can change the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller actually buys whole VPS hosting packages to sell them to the clients rather than offering shared web hosting accounts on a single virtual private web server. It is considered more profitable but also requests more introductory contributions to buy the virtual web hosting server.

Just like any other web hosting type, VPS hosting plans often involve a LAMP software stack. LAMP denotes Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and determines three more virtual private web server hosting types:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server software is very famous and was the first to pass the 100 000 000 web site mark back in 2009, so it is normally utilized with VPS web servers too.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous database management system utilized with multiple apps and thus often wanted on a VPS hosting server.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a scripting language utilized by web developers, hence it is popular with various web hosting solutions, incl. Virtual Private Server web hosting ones.