What Does VPS Hosting Mean?

Nowadays it has become very simple to establish a web page by yourself with all the charge-free site layouts that are obtainable on the Internet along with charge-free software apps that are suitable even for newcomers. Hence, many new websites are being built each day, incl. online blogs - where the author can tackle a variety of topics that spring to mind, and photo galleries - where people can post images and the stories behind them on the web. These sites must be hosted someplace and one reasonable web hosting choice is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS signifies Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated server in terms of management because you get full root access with an option to restart the virtual private hosting server from a distance. The VPS hosting shares resources with other virtual web servers that are accommodated on the same physical machine. This results in a quite inexpensive price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is actually closer to shared website hosting packages in terms of prices.

Kinds of VPS Hosting

Just as any other hosting variety, Virtual Servers may vary depending on different features, but the OS is maybe the most significant difference. Here we have the 2 most essential types:

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

Linux VPS hosting - a VPS hosting server platform running Linux is the more widely used variety that you can chance on on the web since it is cheaper to build and maintain and hence it is more wanted.

VPS servers are also very popular with resellers and you can come across 2 modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller buys a VPS web hosting server and begins selling shared website hosting packages that are hosted on the VPS. It is similar to the conventional reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller gets complete server root access and can alter the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller actually buys entire VPS hosting plans to offer them to the clients instead of offering shared web hosting plans on a single private virtual web server. It is considered more profitable but also demands more initial deposits to buy the private virtual web hosting server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS hosting plans frequently entail a LAMP software stack. LAMP means Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more private virtual web server varieties:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is quite popular and was the first to pass the 100 000 000 website milestone back in 2009, so it is naturally used with virtual hosting servers too.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular relational database management system used with many web applications and therefore often requested on a private virtual web hosting server.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a programming language designed for web development, thus it is popular with various web hosting solutions, incl. private virtual server hosting ones.