VPS Hosting

VPS stands for 'Virtual Private Server'.
This type of hosting is in between shared hosting and a dedicated server hosting.

What is VPS Hosting ?

About Virtual Private Server

VPS stands for 'Virtual Private Server'. This type of hosting is in between shared hosting and a dedicated server hosting. VPS uses the 'sharing' technology of shared hosting but able to extend to limited common resources like CPU and memory to each VPS account. It slices the main server and share the resources among each Virtual servers. It also offers private root access.

In shared hosting, the account owner has limited access to certain area in the server and generally do not have the authority to change / update system software. VPS hosting account is given a clean partition in the server with 'root' access to the given partition and hence it offer a lot more privacy and flexibility. The VPS owner can install any system software's / application and it will not interfere the rest of the VPS server performance on the same server.

VPS hosting is good for website owners that requires certain degree of control over the system software installation. VPS owners need some degree of technical knowledge on server management since support from web hosting provider is either not available or require extra fee to attend to certain support requests. Hosting fee is also higher than shared hosting but certainly slightly less than a dedicated server.