What are VPSs?
Nowadays it has become quite easy to set up a website on your own with all the charge-free design skins that are obtainable on the web along with free-of-cost web platforms that are applicable even for inexperienced clients. Thus, plenty of new sites are being built each and every day, among them online blogs - where the author can discuss various topics that come to mind, and online galleries - where users can share photos and the history behind them on the web. These web sites must be hosted someplace and one intelligent web hosting choice is a VPS.
What is a VPS?
VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server and it behaves like a dedicated web server in terms of administration as you are provided with full root-level access with an option to restart the Virtual Private Server distantly. The VPS shares system resources with other virtual private hosting servers that are accommodated on the same physical machine. This is reflected in the remarkably low price, which is several times cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more akin to shared web hosting packages as far as prices are concerned.
Sorts of VPS
Just like any other web hosting variety, Virtual Servers may vary based on various features, but the Operating System is perchance the most notable difference. Here we have the 2 most important types:
Windows VPS - a VPS platform running Windows that will permit software applications which need Windows to run unproblematically to be installed on the virtual private hosting server.
Linux VPS - a VPS hosting system running Linux is the more popular variety that you can stumble upon on the World Wide Web as it is cheaper to put together and maintain and therefore it is more sought after.
VPS servers are also quite sought after by resellers and you can discover two modes of reselling a VPS:
VPS reseller - the reseller purchases a private virtual web hosting server and begins offering shared web hosting packages that are hosted on the virtual server. It is comparable to the ordinary reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller receives complete root-level access and can revise the server's configuration.
VPS reseller - the reseller actually purchases whole VPS packages to offer them to the clients instead of selling shared web hosting plans on a single private virtual web hosting server. It is considered more remunerative but also necessitates more introductory payments to purchase the private virtual web hosting server.
Just as any other web hosting type, VPS plans regularly entail a LAMP middleware stack. LAMP is an acronym for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more private virtual hosting server types:
VPS with the Apache web server - the Apache web server software is quite popular and was the first to pass the 100 000 000 website benchmark back in 2009, so it is normally utilized with virtual private web hosting servers too.
VPS with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous database management system utilized with numerous apps and hence often requested on a VPS.
VPS with PHP - PHP is a programming language preferred by web developers, hence it is popular with a variety of web hosting solutions, incl. Virtual Private Server web hosting ones.
| vBox 4 | vBox 8 | vBox 16 |
| 2 CPU Cores | 4 CPU Cores | 8 CPU Cores |
| 4 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM | 16 GB RAM |
| 80 GB Storage | 160 GB Storage | 320 GB Storage |
| £12.56 / month | £25.13 / month | £50.25 / month |