What Actually is VPS web hosting?

There is no wonder that so many people have started creating their own personal feature-rich websites availing of cost-free web apps that are easy enough to use even for beginners. And due to all the free-of-charge website templates that are obtainable on the web, quite many websites are being launched, which require a web hosting solution such as the VPS hosting one.

What is VPS Web Hosting?

Website hosting is a service, which allows you to upload your website on a web hosting server so as to bring it online and a VPS is a private virtual hosting server - it behaves like a dedicated server, offering complete root access to the client, but it shares the system resources of the physical machine with other VPS web hosting accounts. In other words, VPS hosting is a web hosting service offered on a virtual server, which is becoming more and more widely used due to the freedom you have in terms of server setup. VPS Web Hosting are frequently utilized by web site developers and programmers as a testing ground where they can check how their product would operate under diverse conditions.

VPS Web Hosting Types

If we begin to distinguish at the core level, we need to start with the different OSs, the most important types being:

Linux VPS web hosting - it is typically preferred owing to the cheaper setup and maintenance costs and the possibility to configure the Operating System as per the requirements of the customers on the basis of the skills of the administrators, because Linux is open-source.

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

Perchance the most widely used VPS software suite is LAMP, which is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, and it determines a few more VPS server web hosting types apart from Linux virtual server web hosting:

VPS web hosting with the Apache web server software - each hosting service requires a web server that will deliver the web pages to the browsers and Apache is among the most popular web servers; as a matter of fact, back in 2009, it was the first to hit the 100 million web site mark.

VPS web hosting with MySQL - there are different sorts of databases that can be utilized on a private virtual web hosting server but MySQL is doubtlessly among the most popular ones used in web applications. It is preferred thanks to its plain structure and swift speed.

VPS web hosting with PHP - PHP is a multiple-purpose script language used in the development of various websites and web apps, so it is only natural that it is popular with most web hosting services, incl. private virtual web hosting servers.

Other VPS web hosting varieties that can be distinguished are: VPS hosting with PostgreSQL - a more intricate and full-featured database type; VPS server hosting with CGI and VPS server web hosting with Perl - these 2 scripting languages are also often utilized for web apps and websites and typically they go with a Linux Operating System.