What are VPSs?

Now it has become very easy to construct a web portal by yourself with all the free layouts that are obtainable on the web along with cost-free web applications that are suitable even for newcomers. Thus, a lot of new sites come into existence each and every day, incl. weblogs - where the author can reflect on different topics that come to mind, and photo galleries - where everybody can publish images and the stories behind them on the World Wide Web. These sites must be hosted somewhere and one wise web hosting alternative is a VPS.

What is a VPS?

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated web server as far as management is concerned because you get complete root access with an option to restart the VPS hosting server remotely. The VPS shares resources with other private virtual servers that are accommodated on the very same physical server. This is reflected in the very inexpensive price, which is several times cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is actually more akin to shared website hosting packages as far as pricing is concerned.

Types of VPS

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may differ based on different features, but the Operating System is possibly the most evident difference. Here we have the two most important types:

Windows VPS - a VPS web hosting platform running Windows that will allow software applications which require Windows to operate unproblematically to be activated on the VPS web server.

Linux VPS - a VPS server system running Linux is the more widespread type that you can stumble upon on the Internet because it is cheaper to put together and administer and thus it is more wanted.

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

VPS reseller - the reseller buys a virtual web hosting server and starts offering shared web hosting packages that are hosted on the virtual server. It is similar to the ordinary reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller is given full server root privileges and can modify the server's configuration.

VPS reseller - the reseller actually buys whole VPS packages to sell them to the clients rather than selling shared web hosting plans on a single private virtual web server. It is deemed more remunerative but also requires more initial contributions to buy the virtual web hosting server.

Just like any other web hosting variety, VPS packages regularly entail a LAMP middleware stack. LAMP denotes Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and determines 3 more virtual web server hosting varieties:

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

VPS with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular database management system used with many web apps and thus often requested on a private virtual server.

VPS with PHP - PHP is a programming language preferred by web developers, so it is popular with different web hosting solutions, incl. virtual private web server hosting ones.