VPS Hosting Definition

These days it has become quite easy to design a web page by yourself with all the free-of-charge web design skins that are available on the web along with cost-free software platforms that are suitable even for inexperienced clients. Thus, multiple brand new websites are being created every day, incl. weblogs - where the moderator can touch upon a variety of issues that suggest themselves, and web galleries - where everyone can display images and the stories behind them online. These sites must be hosted someplace and one apt web hosting choice is a VPS.

What is a VPS?

VPS means Virtual Private Server and it works like a dedicated hosting server in terms of management since you are granted root privileges with an option to reboot the private virtual server from a distance. The VPS shares resources with other VPS web hosting servers that are accommodated on the same physical server. This is reflected in the quite reasonable price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is actually more related to shared hosting plans as far as pricing is concerned.

Sorts of VPS

Just like any other hosting variety, Virtual Servers may differ based on different features, but the OS is perhaps the most notable distinction. Here we have the 2 most essential varieties:

Windows VPS - a virtual private web hosting server platform running Windows that will allow software apps which require Windows to function properly to be activated on the VPS hosting server.

Linux VPS - a private virtual web server hosting system running Linux is the more widespread type that you can find on the World Wide Web because it is cheaper to establish and administer and so it is more sought after.

VPS servers are also very popular with resellers and you can come across 2 modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS reseller - the reseller purchases a VPS server and begins offering shared packages that are hosted on the virtual web server. It is akin to the ordinary reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller has full server root privileges and can change the web server's configuration.

VPS reseller - the reseller actually purchases whole VPS packages to offer them to the clients instead of offering shared web hosting packages on one single virtual private web hosting server. It is considered more remunerative but also demands more initial investments to purchase the VPS.

Just like any other web hosting variety, VPS packages often entail a LAMP stack. LAMP denotes Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more private virtual server types:

VPS with the Apache web server - the Apache web server is quite famous and was the first to pass the 100 million web site benchmark back in 2009, so it is normally utilized with private virtual hosting servers too.

VPS with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous database management system used with numerous applications and thus regularly requested on a VPS.

VPS with PHP - PHP is a scripting language used by web developers, hence it is popular with various web hosting solutions, including VPS hosting ones.