How VPS Web Hosting Functions

Nowadays it has become quite simple to build a web site by yourself with all the free-of-charge design skins that are available on the Internet along with free-of-cost software platforms that are good even for novices. Hence, multiple brand new web sites come into existence each and every day, incl. online blogs - where the moderator can discuss a variety of issues that occur to him, and online galleries - where everyone can display images and the history behind them online. These web sites must be hosted someplace and one good web hosting alternative is a VPS web hosting.

What is a VPS web hosting?

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server and it works like a dedicated server in terms of administration because you have full root-level access with an option to reboot the private virtual server remotely. The VPS web hosting shares system resources with other virtual private web servers that are hosted on the same physical server. This results in a very cheap price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more comparable to shared plans in terms of pricing.

Kinds of VPS Web Hosting

Just as any other hosting variety, Virtual Servers may vary on the basis of different features, but the Operating System is probably the most apparent distinction. Here we have the two most important types:

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

Linux VPS web hosting - a virtual web server hosting platform running Linux is the more famous type that you can come across on the web because it is cheaper to construct and administer and thus it is more wanted.

VPS servers are also very sought after by resellers and you can come across 2 modes of reselling a VPS:

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller buys a private virtual web server and begins offering shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the private virtual hosting server. It is akin to the regular reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller gets complete server root access and can update the server's configuration.

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller in fact purchases whole VPS web hosting plans to offer them to the customers instead of offering shared web hosting plans on one single private virtual hosting server. It is deemed more remunerative but also demands more initial investments to buy the VPS hosting server.

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

VPS web hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is quite popular and was the first to pass the 100 million website mark back in 2009, so it is naturally utilized with private virtual web servers as well.

VPS web hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous database management system used with a lot of applications and hence often wanted on a VPS web hosting server.

VPS web hosting with PHP - PHP is a script language used by web developers, so it is popular with different web hosting solutions, incl. VPS server web hosting ones.