VPS Hosting Definition

Nowadays it has become very easy to launch a site on your own with all the free templates that are obtainable on the Internet along with free-of-cost web platforms that are applicable even for inexperienced clients. So, a lot of new web sites come into existence each day, including online blogs - where the moderator can concentrate on various topics that cross his minds, and photo galleries - where everybody can display images and the history behind them on the Internet. These web sites must be hosted somewhere and one good web hosting choice is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS denotes Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated web server in terms of management because you gain complete root access with an option to restart the virtual private web server remotely. The VPS hosting shares system resources with other virtual private web servers that are accommodated on the very same physical machine. This results in a quite cheap price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more similar to shared web hosting plans as far as prices are concerned.

Types of VPS Hosting

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary depending on various features, but the OS is maybe the most evident distinction. Here are the 2 most important varieties:

Windows VPS hosting - a VPS web hosting platform running Windows that will allow software apps which require Windows to run smoothly to be installed on the Virtual Private Server.

Linux VPS hosting - a private virtual server hosting platform running Linux is the more famous type that you can encounter on the World Wide Web since it is more affordable to construct and maintain and thus it is more sought after.

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

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller buys a private virtual web server and starts selling shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the virtual web hosting server. It is comparable to the standard reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller is granted complete server root access and can alter the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller in fact buys entire VPS hosting packages to sell them to the clients instead of offering shared web hosting packages on one single private virtual hosting server. It is considered more cost-effective but also requires more introductory contributions to buy the VPS web server.

Just like any other web hosting type, VPS hosting plans frequently entail a LAMP software stack. LAMP signifies Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and determines 3 more VPS types:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server is very popular and was the first to pass the one hundred million website milestone back in 2009, so it is naturally used with virtual servers as well.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular relational database management system used with many web apps and hence often wanted on a VPS.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a script language used by web developers, thus it is popular with various web hosting solutions, incl. private virtual server hosting ones.