VPSs Revealed

Nowadays it has become very simple to design a site by yourself with all the free-of-charge design templates that are available on the World Wide Web together with charge-free software platforms that are suitable even for novices. Therefore, plenty of brand new sites come into existence each and every day, incl. online blogs - where the author can discuss different topics that cross his minds, and image galleries - where people can publish pics and the stories behind them on the World Wide Web. These sites must be hosted someplace and one commendable web hosting choice is a VPS.

What is a VPS?

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated server as far as management is concerned because you are provided with full root access with a possibility to reboot the VPS web hosting server remotely. The VPS shares system resources with other private virtual servers that are accommodated on the same physical machine. This is reflected in the remarkably cheap price, which is several times cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more akin to shared web hosting plans in terms of pricing.

Sorts of VPS

Just as any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary based on various features, but the OS is probably the most apparent distinction. Here we have the two most essential types:

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

Linux VPS - a virtual private web server hosting system running Linux is the more commonly used variety that you can stumble upon on the Internet since it is more affordable to construct and administer and therefore it is more sought after.

VPS servers are also very sought after by resellers and you can discover 2 modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS reseller - the reseller purchases a VPS and starts offering shared website hosting packages that are hosted on the private virtual server. It is comparable to the ordinary reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller is granted full root privileges and can alter the server's configuration.

VPS reseller - the reseller actually purchases whole VPS packages to offer them to the customers rather than selling shared web hosting accounts on one single private virtual server. It is deemed more remunerative but also demands more initial investments to purchase the virtual web server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS packages often involve a LAMP solution stack. LAMP signifies Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more VPS web server hosting types:

VPS with the Apache web server - the Apache web server is quite popular and was the first to hit the one hundred million web site benchmark back in 2009, so it is normally used with Virtual Private Servers too.

VPS with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous relational database management system utilized with plenty of apps and thus frequently requested on a VPS web server.

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