What Does VPS Hosting Mean?

Nowadays it has become quite easy to create an online portal on your own with all the free-of-charge web site themes that are obtainable on the World Wide Web together with cost-free software platforms that are good even for inexperienced customers. So, lots of new sites are being created each day, including online blogs - where the moderator can debate on different topics that suggest themselves, and web galleries - where persons can publish photos and the history behind them online. These websites must be hosted somewhere and one relevant web hosting alternative is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and it performs like a dedicated web hosting server as far as management is concerned as you are granted full server root privileges with an option to reboot the VPS web hosting server remotely. The VPS hosting shares resources with other private virtual hosting servers that are accommodated on the same physical server. This is reflected in the quite low price, which is much cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is actually more related to shared website hosting plans as far as prices are concerned.

Sorts of VPS Hosting

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary based on various features, but the OS is possibly the most visible distinction. Here we have the 2 most important varieties:

Windows VPS hosting - a private virtual hosting server platform running Windows that will permit applications which need Windows to perform properly to be installed on the private virtual server.

Linux VPS hosting - a virtual private hosting server platform running Linux is the more famous type that you can come across on the World Wide Web since it is cheaper to put together and administer and hence it is more wanted.

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

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller purchases a VPS web server and starts offering shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the VPS server. It is akin to the standard reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller gains complete root-level access and can update the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller actually buys whole VPS hosting plans to sell them to the customers rather than offering shared web hosting accounts on a single virtual server. It is considered more lucrative but also necessitates more introductory deposits to purchase the VPS web hosting server.

Just like any other web hosting type, VPS hosting packages frequently involve a LAMP stack. LAMP denotes Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces 3 more private virtual server web hosting types:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server is very famous and was the first to surpass the one hundred million web site milestone back in 2009, so it is logically utilized with VPS hosting servers as well.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular relational database management system utilized with lots of web applications and hence regularly wanted on a VPS.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a scripting language used by web developers, thus it is popular with different web hosting solutions, including Virtual Private Server hosting ones.