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VPS Web Hosting Definition

These days it has become quite simple to launch a web page by yourself with all the free-of-cost website templates that are available on the World Wide Web along with free-of-charge web apps that are suitable even for inexperienced customers. Therefore, multiple new web sites are being built each day, among them blogs - where the moderator can reflect on various topics that suggest themselves, and online galleries - where users can post photos and the history behind them on the Internet. These sites must be hosted somewhere and one suitable web hosting alternative is a VPS web hosting.

What is a VPS web hosting?

VPS OVZ 1
CPU
1 GB RAM
20 GB Storage
6.79 / month
VPS OVZ 2
CPU
2 GB RAM
40 GB Storage
14.71 / month
 

VPS denotes Virtual Private Server and it performs like a dedicated web server as far as management is concerned as you gain full server root access with a possibility to restart the virtual web server remotely. The VPS web hosting shares system resources with other virtual hosting servers that are hosted on the same physical server. This is reflected in the quite cheap price, which is much cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more related to shared hosting packages as far as pricing is concerned.

Sorts of VPS Web Hosting

Just as any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary depending on different features, but the Operating System is probably the most visible distinction. Here are the 2 most important types:

Windows VPS web hosting - a virtual server hosting system running Windows that will permit applications which require Windows to operate properly to be activated on the Virtual Private Server.

Linux VPS web hosting - a VPS server web hosting platform running Linux is the more widely used variety that you can find on the web as it is more affordable to establish and handle and so it is more sought after.

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

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

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller in fact purchases entire VPS web hosting packages to offer them to the clients instead of offering shared web hosting plans on a single private virtual hosting server. It is considered more cost-effective but also requires more initial contributions to buy the private virtual server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS web hosting plans often involve a LAMP software suite. LAMP means Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more VPS web server varieties:

VPS web hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server software is quite popular and was the first to exceed the 100 million website milestone back in 2009, so it is logically utilized with virtual hosting servers too.

VPS web hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular relational database management system utilized with a lot of applications and hence frequently requested on a virtual web hosting server.

VPS web hosting with PHP - PHP is a programming language used by web developers, so it is popular with various web hosting solutions, including virtual web server hosting ones.