How Virtual Private Servers Work

These days it has become very simple to kick off a web site by yourself with all the free-of-charge web page layouts that are available on the web together with free-of-cost web applications that are applicable even for newbies. Thus, many brand new websites start to operate every day, incl. blogs - where the moderator can discuss different issues that suggest themselves, and picture galleries - where individuals can display pictures and the stories behind them online. These sites must be hosted someplace and one reasonable web hosting choice is a VPS hosting.

What is a VPS hosting?

VPS means Virtual Private Server and it behaves like a dedicated web server as far as management is concerned as you receive root privileges with an option to reboot the VPS hosting server from a distance. The VPS hosting shares system resources with other virtual private web servers that are hosted on the very same physical machine. This is reflected in the remarkably modest price, which is a lot cheaper than that of a dedicated server and is actually more comparable to shared web hosting packages as far as prices are concerned.

Kinds of VPS Hosting

Just like any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary depending on various features, but the Operating System is perhaps the most transparent difference. Here are the two most important types:

Windows VPS hosting - a VPS web hosting server system running Windows that will allow software apps which require Windows to run properly to be installed on the virtual server.

Linux VPS hosting - a private virtual web server hosting platform running Linux is the more famous variety that you can find on the web since it is more affordable to erect and handle and hence it is more sought after.

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

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller purchases a private virtual web hosting server and starts selling shared website hosting plans that are hosted on the VPS web server. It is comparable to the ordinary reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller obtains root access and can alter the server's configuration.

VPS hosting reseller - the reseller in fact purchases entire VPS hosting packages to sell them to the customers rather than selling shared web hosting plans on a single virtual web hosting server. It is considered more lucrative but also calls for more initial contributions to purchase the Virtual Private Server.

Just as any other web hosting type, VPS hosting plans frequently entail a LAMP software stack. LAMP stands for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces 3 more Virtual Private Server hosting types:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is very popular and was the first to exceed the one hundred million website benchmark back in 2009, so it is normally popular with VPSs as well.

VPS hosting with MySQL - MySQL is also a famous relational database management system utilized with a lot of web applications and therefore frequently requested on a VPS web hosting server.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a script language preferred by web developers, thus it is popular with various web hosting solutions, incl. virtual private web server hosting ones.