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VPSs Revealed

There is no wonder that so many persons have started constructing their very own personal feature-rich online portals availing of free-of-charge web applications that are easy enough to use even for newcomers. And thanks to all the cost-free website layouts that are available on the Internet, quite a lot of websites are being created, which need a website hosting solution like the VPS hosting one.

What is VPS Hosting?

VPS OVZ 1
1 CPU Core
1 GB RAM
20 GB Storage
$6.00 / month
VPS OVZ 2
1 CPU Core
2 GB RAM
40 GB Storage
$13.00 / month
 

Web hosting is a service, which enables you to upload your web site on a hosting server so as to bring it online and a VPS is a virtual private web server - it behaves like a dedicated server, granting complete server root access to the client, but it shares the system resources of the physical machine with other VPS hosting accounts. In other words, VPS hosting is a web hosting service provided on a virtual private web server, which is growing more and more widely used thanks to the liberty you have as far as server setup is concerned. VPS are frequently used by software developers and programmers as a testing platform where they can explore how their product would behave under different conditions.

VPS Hosting Types

If we start to distinguish at the core level, we have to begin with the separate Operating Systems, the most prominent varieties being:

Linux VPS hosting - it is typically favored due to the more affordable setup and maintenance taxes and the ability to configure the Operating System as per the requirements of the customers based on the skills of the admins, as Linux is open-source.

Windows VPS hosting - being more costly renders Windows a last refuge when you want to host applications that cannot perform on another system and there are quite a few of them, so the Windows virtual web server hosting solution is quite common as well.

Probably the most common VPS software platform is LAMP, which means Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, and it determines several more Virtual Private Server hosting types beside Linux private virtual server web hosting:

VPS hosting with the Apache web server software - each hosting service demands a server that will deliver the webpages to the browsers and Apache is one of the most extensively used web servers; as a matter of fact, back in 2009, it was the first to cross the 100 million website benchmark.

VPS hosting with MySQL - there are various varieties of database management software systems that can be utilized on a virtual private web server but MySQL is certainly among the most popular ones used in web applications. It is favored because of its simple configuration and quick speed.

VPS hosting with PHP - PHP is a multiple-function script language utilized in the development of many web sites and web apps, so it is only natural that it is popular with the majority of web hosting solutions, incl. VPS hosting servers.

Other VPS hosting varieties that can be identified are: VPS hosting with PostgreSQL - a more elaborate and full-featured database management system type; virtual private web server hosting with CGI and virtual server hosting with Perl - these 2 programming languages are also often used for web applications and web sites and typically they are used in combination with a Linux Operating System.