What is VPS hosting?

To fulfill the demand for low cost, but reliable hosting services, companies introduced a midway web hosting environment - the VPS. This is a virtual imitation of a web server that acts quite like a : dedicated hosting server and is much more feature-rich than any shared web hosting account. On the other hand, as a lot of accounts are set up on the very same physical machine and each person pays for their account, the price for a VPS account is much lower than the price for a dedicated server. A low-end VPS plan is a bit more expensive than the most powerful shared web hosting package, but its system resources excel by far those of the shared web hosting account.

VPS Virtualization Systems: OpenVZ and KVM

Each specific account is isolated from the remaining accounts on the web hosting server, so each Virtual Private Server can run a separate Operating System and be restarted independently from the remaining ones. The Virtual Servers are managed through a virtualization console where clients can observe all running tasks and terminate or reboot them, update server-side software, have a glimpse at the consumed and the remaining system resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are merely a few instances of virtualization panels used for setting up and managing private virtual server hosting accounts. They involve various requirements in relation to the central processing unit architecture, the Operating Systems they support, and so on. For example, KVM can perform on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 microprocessors, can be installed on a web hosting server running both Windows and Linux OSs, and allows both of these Operating Systems to be installed on the actual VPSs.

Managed VPS Solutions

The virtualization panel offers the user the power to manage the VPS autonomously from the provider, sparing you the time you'd have waited for their client support team to restart a service or restore a backup. If the customer is not skilled enough, though, we have an optional upgrade that comprises OS and software installation and update operations, VPS backups, as well as dedicated administrator support and troubleshooting operations. We also have several virtual web hosting server server farm facility locations to pick from: North America, Britain and Australia.

Website hosting Control Panels for VPS

The domains and the web content on the virtual private web hosting server are manipulated through a website hosting Control Panel user interface, similar to a common shared web hosting account's. The distinction is that with web hosting plans, users receive one concrete website hosting CP, while with a VPS account, hosting providers typically give a number of web hosting CPs to choose from, and the more competent users can install and use the website hosting Control Panel they wish. Some virtualization platforms support installing a web hosting CP through them to make things easier for the client. Unfortunately, most web hosting CPs are not cost-free. Some of them demand a monthly fee (cPanel demands thirteen dollars/month, have a look at BuycPanel.com), while others request a licence tax (DirectAdmin). There are other hosting CPs that limit the amount of the hosted domains (Plesk). While we discuss web hosting CP-supplied VPS, it's good to state that, by default, all VPS packages supplied by us offer the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. It offers unlimited hosted domain name allowance. Hepsia is offered at no additional licence cost, hence the monthly price of the virtual server hosting package selected by the client does not change. Besides, Hepsia probably includes the finest Domain Manager on the web hosting CP marketplace.

CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Powered VPS Accounts

The website hosting Control Panel tool permits users to handle domain name, files, databases, File Transfer Protocol and e-mail accounts, to observe traffic and load logs and to keep track of detailed stats about the used up and the remaining resources. Like the virtualization consoles, the web hosting CPs are developed to perform under a given OS. For instance, cPanel, which is one of the most popular web hosting Control Panels, functions solely under Linux CentOS, whereas Enkompass, which is built by the same company, runs only under Windows. Other website hosting Control Panels such as Plesk and Hepsia support several Operating Systems. Hepsia supports the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The superiority of certain web hosting CPs over others is that they involve different levels of control - administrator, reseller and client. Each level has access to a different set of specifications governing the levels beneath, so it is easy to create a reseller web hosting website and commence making money by offering web hosting accounts to other people. As clients will keep track of what percentage of the resources is utilized, but will not be aware of the actual numbers, even a small-size virtual private web hosting server plan will be enough to run a small-size shared web hosting web hosting enterprise and earn capital.

The VPS: an Autonomous, Cut-Rate Solution

A VPS is a relatively cheap hosting service, but it is advanced enough to support sites such as a highly visited web store or a huge company site. As its administration is easy, it is the favored pick of both inexperienced clients and knowledgeable clients.