VPS Hosting Description

Today it has become quite easy to launch a web page by yourself with all the cost-free website themes that are obtainable on the World Wide Web together with free-of-cost software applications that are applicable even for newbies. Thus, numerous brand new web sites are being launched every day, including weblogs - where the moderator can focus on various topics that suggest themselves, and online galleries - where people can share pics and the stories behind them on the web. These web sites must be hosted somewhere and one intelligent web hosting option is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and it works like a dedicated hosting server in terms of administration because you have root access with an option to restart the VPS hosting server from a distance. The VPS hosting shares system resources with other VPSs that are hosted on the same physical server. This results in a very inexpensive price, which is much lower than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more akin to shared web hosting plans in terms of pricing.

Sorts of VPS Hosting

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary depending on various features, but the Operating System is probably the most notable distinction. Here we have the 2 most essential types:

Windows VPS hosting - a virtual server web hosting platform running Windows that will allow applications which need Windows to perform properly to be activated on the VPS hosting server.

Linux VPS hosting - a Virtual Private Server system running Linux is the more popular type that you can encounter on the Internet since it is cheaper to build and administer and hence it is more wanted.

VPS servers are also quite sought after by resellers and you can come across 2 modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller purchases a virtual private web hosting server and begins offering shared hosting plans that are hosted on the virtual private web hosting server. It is comparable to the regular reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller is provided with full server root access and can update the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller in fact buys whole VPS hosting plans to sell them to the customers instead of offering shared web hosting accounts on a single private virtual web hosting server. It is considered more cost-effective but also demands more initial contributions to purchase the Virtual Private Server.

Just like any other web hosting type, VPS hosting plans frequently involve a LAMP software solution stack. LAMP signifies Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces 3 more VPS hosting server varieties:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is quite popular and was the first to hit the 100 million web site mark back in 2009, so it is logically popular with private virtual web hosting servers as well.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular database management system utilized with many web apps and thus frequently wanted on a VPS hosting server.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a programming language used by web developers, hence it is popular with a variety of web hosting solutions, incl. virtual server web hosting ones.