What Does VPS Hosting Denote?

Today it has become quite easy to build a website by yourself with all the free site skins that are available on the Internet along with free-of-charge web platforms that are applicable even for inexperienced customers. Therefore, numerous brand new websites are being launched every day, incl. weblogs - where the moderator can reflect on a variety of issues that cross his minds, and photo galleries - where everyone can post images and the stories behind them on the World Wide Web. These web sites must be hosted someplace and one suitable web hosting choice is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS signifies Virtual Private Server and it performs like a dedicated web server as far as administration is concerned as you have complete server root access with an option to restart the virtual web hosting server from a distance. The VPS hosting shares system resources with other virtual hosting servers that are hosted on the very same physical server. This results in a very reasonable price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is actually more similar to shared website hosting packages as far as prices are concerned.

Types of VPS Hosting

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may differ on the basis of various features, but the Operating System is possibly the most important difference. Here are the two most essential varieties:

Windows VPS hosting - a private virtual hosting server system running Windows that will allow software applications which need Windows to run properly to be activated on the private virtual server.

Linux VPS hosting - a private virtual server hosting platform running Linux is the more famous type that you can discover on the World Wide Web as it is more affordable to construct and handle and therefore it is more wanted.

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

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller purchases a VPS hosting server and starts offering shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the private virtual hosting server. It is similar to the regular reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller is provided with complete root access and can modify the web server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller in fact purchases entire VPS hosting plans to sell them to the clients instead of offering shared web hosting accounts on a single private virtual web server. It is deemed more profitable but also requests more introductory payments to purchase the virtual private web hosting server.

Just as any other web hosting type, VPS hosting plans often entail a LAMP solution stack. LAMP stands for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and determines 3 more VPS hosting types:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server is very famous and was the first to exceed the 100 000 000 website mark back in 2009, so it is naturally popular with virtual servers as well.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous relational database management system utilized with many web applications and hence often wanted on a virtual web server.

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