VPS Web Hosting Definition

Today it has become very easy to design a web site by yourself with all the charge-free web design skins that are available on the World Wide Web together with free software applications that are appropriate even for newbies. Therefore, numerous brand new websites are being built every day, incl. blogs - where the author can focus on different topics that come to mind, and picture galleries - where users can post photos and the stories behind them on the World Wide Web. These websites must be hosted someplace and one wise web hosting choice is a VPS web hosting.

What is a VPS web hosting?

VPS OVZ 1
1 CPU Core
1 GB RAM
20 GB Storage
$6.00 / month
VPS OVZ 2
1 CPU Core
2 GB RAM
40 GB Storage
$12.00 / month
 

VPS signifies Virtual Private Server and it works like a dedicated web server in terms of administration since you obtain root-level access with an option to reboot the virtual hosting server from a distance. The VPS web hosting shares resources with other virtual web servers that are hosted on the same physical machine. This is reflected in the very inexpensive price, which is a lot cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is actually more similar to shared plans as far as prices are concerned.

Kinds of VPS Web Hosting

Just like any other web hosting variety, Virtual Servers may vary on the basis of various features, but the OS is perhaps the most essential distinction. Here are the 2 most important types:

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

Linux VPS web hosting - a private virtual server system running Linux is the more commonly used type that you can find on the Internet as it is cheaper to put together and administer and therefore it is more wanted.

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

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller buys a virtual web server and begins selling shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the virtual private web hosting server. It is akin to the regular reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller gains complete server root access and can revise the web server's configuration.

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller in fact buys whole VPS web hosting packages to sell them to the customers rather than selling shared web hosting packages on one single virtual private web server. It is deemed more remunerative but also requires more introductory contributions to purchase the VPS.

Just as any other web hosting type, VPS web hosting packages regularly entail a LAMP software stack. LAMP stands for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces 3 more virtual web server types:

VPS web hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is very popular and was the first to pass the 100 million website mark back in 2009, so it is normally utilized with virtual servers as well.

VPS web hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous relational database management system used with numerous applications and therefore frequently wanted on a virtual web hosting server.

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