How Do Virtual Private Servers Function?

Now it has become quite easy to kick off a web site on your own with all the free-of-cost web themes that are available on the Internet along with cost-free software apps that are appropriate even for novices. Hence, a lot of brand new websites are born each day, among them blogs - where the author can focus on various issues that come to mind, and web galleries - where individuals can post photos and the stories behind them on the Internet. These sites must be hosted someplace and one wise web hosting alternative is a virtual private servers.

What is a virtual private server?

VPS is an acronym for Virtual Private Server and it behaves like a dedicated server as far as administration is concerned as you are given full server root privileges with an option to restart the VPS web server remotely. The virtual private servers shares resources with other virtual web hosting servers that are hosted on the same physical machine. This is reflected in the quite affordable price, which is several times lower than that of a dedicated server and is in fact more related to shared hosting plans in terms of pricing.

Types of Virtual Private Servers

Just as any other web hosting type, Virtual Servers may vary based on various features, but the Operating System is perchance the most essential difference. Here we have the 2 most important types:

Windows virtual private servers - a private virtual web server system running Windows that will permit software applications which require Windows to function properly to be activated on the VPS server.

Linux virtual private servers - a virtual hosting server system running Linux is the more widespread type that you can come across on the Internet as it is more affordable to establish and administer and so it is more sought after.

VPS servers are also very sought after by resellers and you can come across two modes of reselling a VPS:

virtual private servers reseller - the reseller buys a private virtual web hosting server and starts offering shared web hosting plans that are hosted on the private virtual hosting server. It is comparable to the standard reseller hosting plans, but here the reseller is offered full server root access and can change the server's configuration.

virtual private servers reseller - the reseller actually buys entire virtual private servers packages to sell them to the customers instead of selling shared web hosting packages on a single Virtual Private Server. It is considered more remunerative but also requests more introductory investments to purchase the virtual hosting server.

Just like any other web hosting type, virtual private servers packages frequently entail a LAMP software stack. LAMP means Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP and introduces 3 more Virtual Private Server hosting types:

virtual private servers with the Apache web server software - the Apache web server is very famous and was the first to hit the 100 million web site benchmark back in 2009, so it is logically utilized with VPS hosting servers as well.

virtual private servers with MySQL - MySQL is also a popular relational database management system used with numerous apps and hence often wanted on a virtual web server.

virtual private servers with PHP - PHP is a script language preferred by web developers, so it is popular with various web hosting solutions, including VPS server hosting ones.