Description of VPS

Today it has become quite simple to make a website on your own with all the charge-free web site templates that are obtainable on the Internet along with free software applications that are suitable even for novices. Thus, plenty of brand new sites are born each day, incl. weblogs - where the moderator can discuss various topics that occur to him, and image galleries - where persons can display pics and the stories behind them on the World Wide Web. These websites must be hosted someplace and one intelligent web hosting option is a VPS.

What is a VPS?

VPS denotes Virtual Private Server and it behaves like a dedicated hosting server in terms of administration as you have complete root access with an option to restart the virtual hosting server from a distance. The VPS shares system resources with other private virtual hosting servers that are hosted on the same physical machine. This is reflected in the quite 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 prices.

Kinds of VPS

Just like any other hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary based on different features, but the Operating System is probably the most obvious difference. Here we have the two most essential types:

Windows VPS - a VPS hosting server system running Windows that will permit software apps which require Windows to function unproblematically to be activated on the virtual web server.

Linux VPS - a virtual web server hosting system running Linux is the more widespread variety that you can encounter on the web because it is cheaper to set up and administer and so it is more wanted.

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

VPS reseller - the reseller buys a virtual hosting server and starts offering shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the private virtual web hosting server. It is comparable to the regular reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller receives full server root access and can change the web server's configuration.

VPS reseller - the reseller actually buys whole VPS packages to sell them to the customers instead of offering shared web hosting accounts on a single virtual server. It is deemed more profitable but also necessitates more introductory payments to buy the virtual web server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS packages regularly entail a LAMP middleware stack. LAMP means Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and determines 3 more VPS web server types:

VPS with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is quite popular and was the first to pass the 100 million web site milestone back in 2009, so it is normally popular with VPS web hosting servers too.

VPS with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular database management system utilized with a lot of web applications and thus often wanted on a VPS hosting server.

VPS with PHP - PHP is a scripting language preferred by web developers, hence it is popular with a variety of web hosting solutions, including virtual server web hosting ones.