What Do Virtual Private Servers Mean?

To fulfill the demand for affordably priced, but reliable hosting solutions, suppliers introduced an intermediate web hosting solution - the VPS hosting. This is a virtual emulation of a web hosting server that acts precisely like a : dedicated server and is much more powerful than any shared web hosting solution. At the same time, as plenty of accounts are hosted on the same physical server and each user pays for their account, the cost of a VPS hosting plan is significantly lower than the cost of a dedicated server. A small-scale VPS hosting plan is a little more expensive than the most powerful shared web hosting package, but its system resources excel decidedly those of the shared web hosting account.

VPS Hosting Virtualization Platforms: OpenVZ and KVM

Each particular account is isolated from the rest of the accounts on the web hosting server, so each Virtual Private Server can run its own Operating System and be restarted autonomously from the other ones. The Virtual Servers are managed via a virtualization panel where users can keep track of all running processes and stop or reboot them, update server-side software, observe the utilized and the remaining resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are merely a couple of instances of virtualization consoles used for setting up and handling private virtual web hosting server accounts. They involve various requirements with regard to the central processing unit architecture, the OSs they are compatible with, etc. For example, KVM can work on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 processors, can be installed on a web server running both Windows and Linux OSs, and allows both of these OSs to be installed on the actual VPSs.

Managed VPS Hosting Services

The virtualization platform offers the customer the power to manage the VPS hosting independently from the hosting provider, saving you the time you'd have waited for their customer support team to restart a specific service or retrieve a backup. If the client is not skilled enough, though, we provide a voluntary upgrade that contains OS and software application installation and update procedures, VPS hosting backups, as well as dedicated admin support and troubleshooting procedures. We also have a couple of VPS hosting server datacenter locations to choose from: the USA, England and Australia.

Web Hosting CPs for VPS Hosting

The domains and the content on the VPS hosting server are administered through a website hosting CP interface, similar to a typical shared web hosting plan's. The contrast is that with website hosting packages, clients get one specific Control Panel, while with a VPS hosting plan, web hosting providers typically present a handful of CPs to pick from, and the more advanced users can install and utilize the website hosting CP they desire. Some virtualization panels support installing a hosting Control Panel through them to make it simpler for the customer. Unluckily, most Control Panels are not free of cost. Some of those demand a monthly fee (cPanel wants 13 USD/month, check out BuycPanel.com), while others require a license fee (DirectAdmin). There are other web hosting Control Panels that limit the amount of the hosted domains (Plesk). While we address website hosting CP-equipped VPS hosting, it's worthwhile to point out that, by default, all VPS hosting packages furnished by us are provided with the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. The latter offers unmetered hosted domain name quotas. Hepsia comes at no extra licence cost, therefore the monthly cost of the Virtual Private Server hosting package picked by the client does not change. Moreover, Hepsia probably offers the finest Domain Manager on the web hosting CP marketplace.

CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Driven VPS Hosting Accounts

The web hosting Control Panel user interface enables clients to handle domain name, files, databases, File Transfer Protocol and electronic mail accounts, to view traffic and load logs and to watch elaborate stats concerning the utilized and the left system resources. Comparable with the virtualization consoles, the web hosting CPs are devised to function under a certain OS. For instance, cPanel, which is one of the most widely used website hosting Control Panels, works solely under Linux CentOS, whereas Enkompass, which is developed by the same corporation, runs exclusively under Windows. Other hosting Control Panels such as Plesk and Hepsia are compatible with several platforms. Hepsia is compatible with the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The superiority of certain web hosting Control Panels over others is that they include different control levels - administrator, reseller and client. Each level has access to a different set of specifications governing the levels below, so it is easy to establish a reseller web hosting website and commence making money by offering web hosting packages to other people. As clients will observe what amount of the system resources is utilized, but will not be aware of the actual numbers, even a small private virtual server hosting package will suffice to open a small-size shared website hosting website hosting company and earn money.

The VPS Hosting: an Independent, Low-Cost Solution

A VPS hosting is a comparatively cheap hosting service, but it is powerful enough to support web pages such as a very famous online store or a big corporate site. As its administration is easy, it is the preferred choice of both inexperienced users and trained clients.