What Exactly are Virtual Private Servers?
To meet the need for modestly priced, but reliable hosting services, providers launched a transitional website hosting platform - the VPS hosting. This is a virtual simulation of a web hosting server that functions quite like a : dedicated hosting server and is much more powerful than any shared web hosting plan. At the same time, as many accounts are hosted on the same physical web hosting server and each customer pays for their account, the cost of a VPS hosting package is markedly lower than the price for a dedicated server. A low-end VPS hosting package is slightly more high-priced than the most powerful shared web hosting account, but its resources exceed by far those of the shared web hosting plan.
VPS Hosting Virtualization Consoles: OpenVZ and KVM
Each individual account is isolated from the rest of the accounts on the server, so each Virtual Private Server can run its own OS and be rebooted autonomously from the rest. The Virtual Servers are managed through a virtualization panel where users can have a look at all running processes and terminate or restart them, update server-side software applications, take a look at the utilized and the free system resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are only a couple of examples of virtualization panels used for creating and handling virtual web hosting server plans. They involve diverse requirements with regard to the CPU architecture, the Operating Systems they support, and so on. For example, KVM can function on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 microprocessors, can be activated on a web server running both Windows and Linux Operating Systems, and permits both of these Operating Systems to be installed on the actual virtual web servers.
Managed VPS Hosting Solutions
The virtualization system lends the user the power to administer the VPS hosting autonomously from the provider, saving you the time you'd have waited for their customer support team to restart a specific service or recover a backup. If the customer is not competent enough, however, we provide an optional upgrade that incorporates OS and software installation and update operations, VPS hosting backups, as well as dedicated admin support and troubleshooting procedures. We also have a bunch of VPS datacenter locations to pick from: America, Britain and Australia.
Website Hosting Control Panels for VPS Hosting
The domains and the web content on the VPS server are tackled through a hosting CP user interface, similar to a traditional shared web hosting account's. The difference is that with web hosting plans, clients get one particular website hosting Control Panel, while with a VPS hosting package, providers traditionally provide a couple of website hosting Control Panels to choose from, and the more trained clients can install and utilize the web hosting Control Panel they want. Some virtualization systems support installing a website hosting CP through them to render it easier for the client. Sadly, the majority of the website hosting CPs are not charge-free. Some of these demand a monthly tax (cPanel asks for 13 dollars/month, have a glance at BuycPanel.com), while others ask for a licence tax (DirectAdmin). There are other website hosting Control Panels that limit the number of the hosted domains (Plesk). While we discuss web hosting CP-equipped VPS hosting, it's worthwhile to state that, by default, all VPS hosting plans distributed by us ship with the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. The latter offers unmetered hosted domain quotas. Hepsia is available at no further licence cost, thus the monthly cost of the virtual web server package selected by the customer does not alter. In addition, Hepsia probably offers the best Domain Manager on the web hosting CP marketplace.
CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Driven VPS Hosting Accounts
The web hosting Control Panel GUI enables customers to handle domain name, files, databases, File Transfer Protocol and e-mail box accounts, to observe traffic and load logs and to view exhaustive statistics regarding the consumed and the remaining resources. Similar to the virtualization panels, the website hosting Control Panels are devised to function under a particular OS. For instance, cPanel, which is one of the most widely used website hosting CPs, performs exclusively under Linux CentOS, while Enkompass, which is designed by the very same company, works solely under Windows. Other website hosting Control Panels like Plesk and Hepsia are multi-platform. Hepsia is compatible with the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The superiority of some hosting Control Panels over others is that they have different levels of control - administrator, reseller and client. Each level can access a different set of functionalities controlling the levels underneath, so it is easy to launch a reseller web hosting website and begin making money by offering web hosting services to other people. As customers will keep track of what amount of the resources is used up, but will not be able to see the real numbers, even a small Virtual Private Server web hosting package will suffice to open a small-size shared website hosting web hosting company and collect money.
The VPS Hosting: an Independent, Affordable Solution
A VPS hosting is a relatively cheap hosting service, but it is powerful enough to support web pages such as a very famous online store or a huge company site. As its management is simple, it is the favored choice of both rookies and accomplished customers.
Virtua-7 | Virtua-4 |
8 CPU Cores | 4 CPU Cores |
16 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
320 GB Storage | 160 GB Storage |
$84.00 / month | $48.00 / month |