Post by dilehost on Nov 18, 2011 4:10:49 GMT 1
There’s a lot of buzz in the marketplace right now about VPS hosting and deservedly so, since this powerhouse technology allows for virtually dedicated server performance for shared hosting pricing. And, that’s enough to get any small to medium sized business owner “jacked†up. We would agree.
There is a lot of upside to VPS web hosting plans and not a whole lot of downside. Let’s explore what VPS is all about first, and we’ll let you decide if it’s right for you. First of all, VPS stands for virtual private server. And although it’s not exactly completely private, it’s private enough for most folks. You see, the VPS server is partitioned, with the use of virtualization software, in such a way that your hosting is virtually like a separate dedicated server. Making sense now? Pretty cool darn cool.
Each part of the server that is so partitioned, has its own operating system, and may be rebooted independently of the other partitioned areas so it actually looks and acts as though it is a virtual machine on its own.
VPS hosting represents a hosting model that has the features of both a dedicated hosting model and a shared hosting model. In a shared hosting plan, many websites are housed on the same web server, whereas in a dedicated hosting model, the hosted site is given access to an entire server for its use, and it completely controls that server. However, the cost of such a hosting plan is much more expensive that the shared hosting plan, but its benefits include more RAM, bandwidth, disk space, and storage capacity.
VPS hosting is a combination of these two hosting models. Each VPS client has a server to himself, but it cannot be considered dedicated since there are other hosting clients on the same server. All these other sites are within the same mainframe, but operate completely independently from one another.
So, in this way, with VPS hosting you will get a few of the benefits of having the independent operations of a dedicated server, without the generous amount of resources, while at the same time, you get the cheaper hosting cost of a shared hosting plan.
VPS hosting is sometimes referred to as VDS hosting or a virtual dedicated server, however that seems to be changing with most folks in the industry using the term VPS.