VPS Web Hosting Definition

Now it has become very simple to create a web portal by yourself with all the free-of-charge design templates that are obtainable on the web along with free-of-cost software applications that are appropriate even for novices. Hence, numerous new sites are being created each and every day, including online blogs - where the author can reflect on various issues that spring to mind, and picture galleries - where everyone can share pics and the stories behind them on the Internet. These websites must be hosted somewhere and one excellent web hosting alternative is a VPS web hosting.

What is a VPS web hosting?

VPS denotes Virtual Private Server and it behaves like a dedicated hosting server as far as administration is concerned since you obtain complete root-level access with a possibility to restart the private virtual web server from a distance. The VPS web hosting shares resources with other private virtual web hosting servers that are hosted on the same physical server. This is reflected in the very affordable price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more akin to shared website hosting plans as far as pricing is concerned.

Types of VPS Web Hosting

Just like any other hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary depending on various features, but the OS is possibly the most perceptible distinction. Here we have the two most important varieties:

Windows VPS web hosting - a VPS web server hosting platform running Windows that will allow software apps which need Windows to function unproblematically to be activated on the private virtual hosting server.

Linux VPS web hosting - a private virtual web server platform running Linux is the more widespread type that you can come across on the Internet because it is more affordable to assemble and handle and hence it is more sought after.

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

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller buys a virtual web hosting server and starts offering shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the virtual private hosting server. It is similar to the traditional reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller is given full root privileges and can change the server's configuration.

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller in fact buys entire VPS web hosting plans to sell them to the clients instead of selling shared web hosting packages on a single VPS web server. It is deemed more remunerative but also demands more initial contributions to buy the virtual server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS web hosting plans regularly involve a LAMP software suite. LAMP means Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces 3 more VPS web hosting server types:

VPS web hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server software is quite famous and was the first to surpass the 100 000 000 web site mark back in 2009, so it is normally utilized with private virtual web servers as well.

VPS web hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous database management system used with many apps and thus often wanted on a private virtual server.

VPS web hosting with PHP - PHP is a script language utilized by web developers, thus it is popular with a variety of web hosting solutions, incl. VPS web server hosting ones.