VPS Web Hosting Unveiled

Nowadays it has become quite simple to develop a website on your own with all the free skins that are obtainable on the web together with cost-free web apps that are good even for newbies. Thus, numerous new websites start to operate every day, including online blogs - where the moderator can touch upon a variety of topics that suggest themselves, and picture galleries - where people can share pics and the history behind them online. These sites must be hosted someplace and one wise web hosting choice is a VPS web hosting.

What is a VPS web hosting?

VPS denotes Virtual Private Server and it functions like a dedicated web hosting server in terms of management as you gain root access with an option to restart the virtual web hosting server distantly. The VPS web hosting shares resources with other virtual web hosting servers that are hosted on the same physical server. This results in a quite low price, which is several times cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is actually more related to shared web hosting plans as far as prices are concerned.

Types of VPS Web Hosting

Just as any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may differ on the basis of different features, but the OS is perchance the most visible difference. Here are the two most essential varieties:

Windows VPS web hosting - a virtual web server hosting system running Windows that will permit software applications which need Windows to function unproblematically to be installed on the virtual private web server.

Linux VPS web hosting - a virtual hosting server platform running Linux is the more commonly used variety that you can encounter on the web since it is cheaper to erect and maintain and hence it is more wanted.

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

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller purchases a virtual web server and begins selling shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the virtual web server. It is similar to the regular reseller hosting packages, but here the reseller obtains complete root access and can revise the web server's configuration.

VPS web hosting reseller - the reseller actually buys entire VPS web hosting plans to offer them to the customers rather than selling shared web hosting packages on a single private virtual server. It is considered more lucrative but also requires more initial contributions to purchase the virtual web server.

Just like any other web hosting type, VPS web hosting plans regularly involve a LAMP software platform. LAMP means Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces three more VPS server web hosting varieties:

VPS web hosting with the Apache web server - the Apache web server is very famous and was the first to pass the 100 million web site benchmark back in 2009, so it is logically popular with virtual private hosting servers too.

VPS web hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular database management system utilized with lots of web applications and therefore frequently requested on a private virtual web hosting server.

VPS web hosting with PHP - PHP is a programming language used by web developers, hence it is popular with various web hosting solutions, including VPS server web hosting ones.