What Does VPS Hosting Stand for?

Today it has become very simple to establish a web page on your own with all the charge-free website themes that are obtainable on the web along with free software applications that are suitable even for novices. So, lots of brand new web sites come into existence each day, incl. blogs - where the moderator can touch upon a variety of issues that spring to mind, and online galleries - where persons can post photographs and the history behind them on the Internet. These websites must be hosted someplace and one commendable web hosting alternative is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated web hosting server in terms of management because you are given full root-level access with a possibility to reboot the private virtual web hosting server distantly. The VPS hosting shares system resources with other private virtual hosting servers that are hosted on the very same physical machine. This results in a remarkably moderate price, which is much lower than that of a dedicated server and is actually more related to shared website hosting plans in terms of pricing.

Sorts of VPS Hosting

Just as any other hosting variety, Virtual Servers may vary based on different features, but the Operating System is possibly the most noticeable difference. Here we have the two most essential types:

Windows VPS hosting - a virtual server web hosting system running Windows that will allow apps which need Windows to operate smoothly to be installed on the private virtual hosting server.

Linux VPS hosting - a virtual private web server platform running Linux is the more widely used type that you can come across on the Internet as it is cheaper to assemble and maintain and so it is more sought after.

VPS servers are also quite sought after by resellers and you can find two modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller buys a VPS and starts selling shared website hosting plans that are hosted on the virtual private hosting server. It is similar to the standard reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller obtains root privileges and can revise the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller in fact purchases whole VPS hosting plans to sell them to the clients rather than selling shared web hosting packages on a single virtual web server. It is deemed more profitable but also requires more initial payments to purchase the private virtual server.

Just as any other web hosting variety, VPS hosting plans regularly entail a LAMP solution stack. LAMP is an acronym for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more VPS 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 popular with VPS web hosting servers too.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular database management system used with multiple web applications and thus regularly requested on a virtual private web server.

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