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VPS Hosting
These days it has become quite easy to build a web site on your own with all the free web layouts that are available on the World Wide Web together with free-of-cost software applications that are suitable even for beginners. Hence, numerous new sites start to operate each day, among them blogs - where the author can concentrate on different topics that come to mind, and photo galleries - where users can post images and the stories behind them online. These sites must be hosted someplace and one intelligent web hosting option is a VPS hosting.
What is a VPS hosting?
VPS denotes Virtual Private Server and it works like a dedicated web server in terms of administration because you are given complete root access with an option to reboot the virtual private web server from a distance. The VPS hosting shares resources with other Virtual Private Servers that are hosted on the same physical machine. This results in a remarkably affordable price, which is several times cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more akin to shared web hosting packages as far as prices are concerned.
Kinds of VPS Hosting
Just as any other hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary based on various features, but the OS is perhaps the most apparent distinction. Here are the 2 most essential types:
Windows VPS hosting - a VPS server platform running Windows that will allow software applications which require Windows to function smoothly to be installed on the VPS.
Linux VPS hosting - a virtual web hosting server system running Linux is the more popular type that you can encounter on the World Wide Web as it is cheaper to put together and handle and therefore it is more sought after.
VPS servers are also quite sought after by resellers and you can come across two modes of reselling a VPS:
VPS hosting reseller - the reseller buys a private virtual web hosting server and starts offering shared web hosting packages that are hosted on the VPS. It is comparable to the ordinary reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller is offered root access and can modify the web server's configuration.
VPS hosting reseller - the reseller in fact buys entire VPS hosting plans to sell them to the clients instead of offering shared web hosting packages on a single virtual private web hosting server. It is deemed more profitable but also demands more initial contributions to buy the private virtual web hosting server.
Just like any other web hosting variety, VPS hosting plans frequently entail a LAMP software bundle. LAMP is an acronym for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and determines three more VPS server hosting varieties:
VPS hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server software is quite famous and was the first to hit the one hundred million web site milestone back in 2009, so it is normally utilized with VPS hosting servers too.
VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous database management system utilized with numerous web applications and hence regularly wanted on a virtual server.
VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a programming language preferred by web developers, thus it is popular with different web hosting solutions, incl. VPS web server hosting ones.