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VPSs Explained

There is no surprise that so many persons have started designing their very own feature-rich online portals resorting to charge-free software applications that are easy enough to use even for inexperienced customers. And owing to all the free design layouts that are available on the web, quite a lot of web sites start to operate, which require a website hosting solution such as the VPS hosting one.

What is VPS Hosting?

VPS vBox 1
1 CPU Core
1 GB RAM
20 GB Storage
$6.00 / month
VPS vBox 2
1 CPU Core
2 GB RAM
40 GB Storage
$12.00 / month
 

Hosting is a solution, which allows you to upload your website on a hosting server in order to get it online and a VPS is a virtual private web hosting server - it behaves like a dedicated server, providing full server root access to the client, but it shares the resources of the physical machine with other VPS hosting accounts. So, VPS hosting is a web hosting service offered on a VPS web server, which is becoming more and more widely used owing to the freedom you have as far as server setup is concerned. VPS are frequently used by web site developers and programmers as a testing ground where they can verify how their product would work under diverse circumstances.

VPS Hosting Types

If we start to differentiate at the basic level, we need to start with the separate OSs, the most important varieties being:

Linux VPS hosting - it is typically preferred owing to the more affordable setup and maintenance rates and the possibility to configure the OS according to the requirements of the customers based on the skills of the administrators, as Linux is open-source.

Windows VPS hosting - being more costly renders Windows a final refuge when you want to host software apps that cannot run on a different system and there are quite a few of them, so the Windows virtual private web server hosting solution is very widely used as well.

Maybe the most popular VPS software is LAMP, which means Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, and it introduces several more private virtual server hosting types beside Linux VPS web server hosting:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - every hosting service needs a web server that will serve the web pages to the browsers and Apache is among the most famous servers; as a matter of fact, back in 2009, it was the first to hit the one hundred million web site benchmark.

VPS hosting with MySQL - there are various kinds of databases that can be utilized on a virtual server but MySQL is undoubtedly one of the most famous ones utilized in web applications. It is favored owing to its plain configuration and fast speed.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a multiple-purpose programming language used in the development of different websites and apps, so it is only natural that it is popular with most web hosting services, including VPSs.

Other VPS hosting types that can be differentiated are: VPS hosting with PostgreSQL - a more intricate and fully featured database management software system type; Virtual Private Server hosting with CGI and private virtual server hosting with Perl - these 2 script languages are also often used for web applications and web sites and generally they are used in combination with a Linux Operating System.