VPS Hosting Definition

These days it has become very simple to kick off a web page on your own with all the cost-free web site layouts that are available on the Internet together with charge-free software apps that are suitable even for newcomers. Thus, plenty of brand new sites go live each and every day, incl. weblogs - where the author can touch upon a variety of topics that come to mind, and picture galleries - where persons can display photos and the history behind them on the World Wide Web. These websites must be hosted someplace and one reasonable web hosting option is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated web server in terms of administration because you obtain root access with an option to reboot the virtual server distantly. The VPS hosting shares resources with other virtual web servers that are hosted on the same physical machine. This results in a remarkably inexpensive price, which is much lower than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more similar to shared website hosting plans as far as pricing is concerned.

Sorts of VPS Hosting

Just like any other hosting variety, Virtual Servers may vary depending on different features, but the Operating System is perchance the most noticeable difference. Here we have the two most essential varieties:

Windows VPS hosting - a private virtual web server hosting system running Windows that will permit software apps which require Windows to run properly to be activated on the private virtual hosting server.

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

VPS servers are also very sought after by resellers and you can come across two modes of reselling a VPS:

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

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller actually buys entire VPS hosting plans to sell them to the clients rather than selling shared web hosting accounts on one single private virtual hosting server. It is deemed more profitable but also requests more initial deposits to buy the VPS hosting server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS hosting packages frequently involve a LAMP stack. LAMP is an acronym for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more VPS server varieties:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server software is quite famous and was the first to exceed the 100 000 000 website mark back in 2009, so it is logically used with VPS web hosting servers too.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular database management system used with a lot of web apps and thus frequently requested on a private virtual web server.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a programming language utilized by web developers, hence it is popular with different web hosting solutions, incl. private virtual web server hosting ones.