What is VPS hosting?

To meet the demand for low cost, but reliable hosting solutions, suppliers launched a transitional web hosting platform - the VPS. This is a virtual emulation of a server that works quite like a : dedicated hosting server and is much more feature-rich than any shared web hosting account. At the same time, as lots of accounts are created on the same physical web hosting server and each client pays for their account, the price for a VPS plan is markedly lower than the price for a dedicated server. A small-scale VPS plan is a bit more high-priced than the most feature-rich shared hosting package, but its resources surpass decidedly those of the shared website hosting plan.

VPS Virtualization Platforms: OpenVZ and KVM

Each specific account is isolated from the remaining accounts on the web hosting server, so each Virtual Private Server can run its own OS and be restarted independently from the other ones. The Virtual Servers are managed through a virtualization console where users can observe all running tasks and stop or reboot them, update server-side software, see the utilized and the available system resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are only a couple of instances of virtualization platforms utilized for creating and administering private virtual server hosting accounts. They have various requirements about the CPU architecture, the OSs they support, and so on. For instance, KVM can perform on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 microprocessors, can be installed on a web server running both Windows and Linux OSs, and permits both of these OSs to be installed on the actual private virtual hosting servers.

Managed VPS Services

The virtualization system lends the customer the power to administer the VPS independently from the provider, saving you the time you'd have waited for their client support team to restart a service or recover a backup. If the client is not an expert, though, we provide a voluntary upgrade that includes Operating System and software installation and update procedures, VPS backups, as well as dedicated administrator support and troubleshooting procedures. We also have several private virtual server server farm locations to pick from: America, the UK and Australia.

Control Panels for VPS

The domain names and the content on the virtual private web hosting server are handled through a website hosting CP interface, similar to a common shared web hosting account's. The difference is that with website hosting accounts, customers obtain one specific web hosting CP, while with a VPS plan, web hosting providers traditionally offer a bunch of website hosting CPs to pick from, and the more trained customers can install and use the website hosting CP they wish. Certain virtualization systems support installing a web hosting CP through them to render things simpler for the user. Unfortunately, the majority of the web hosting CPs are paid. Some of those require a monthly tax (cPanel charges $13 USD/month, visit BuycPanel.com), while others request a license fee (DirectAdmin). There are other website hosting Control Panels that limit the number of the hosted domains (Plesk). While we talk about CP-equipped VPS, it's worth stating that, by default, all VPS accounts delivered by us come with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It offers unlimited hosted domain name quotas. Hepsia is obtainable at no further licence charge, hence the monthly price of the VPS hosting account picked by the customer does not alter. Last, but not least, Hepsia perhaps offers the greatest Domain Manager on the web hosting CP market.

CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Driven VPS Packages

The web hosting CP user interface enables clients to handle domain name, files, databases, FTP and mail address accounts, to monitor bandwidth and load logs and to observe comprehensive stats regarding the used up and the left resources. Similar to the virtualization consoles, the website hosting CPs are conceived to function under a particular OS. For instance, cPanel, which is one of the most well known web hosting Control Panels, works exclusively under Linux CentOS, whereas Enkompass, which is fabricated by the very same corporation, functions exclusively under Windows. Other hosting CPs like Plesk and Hepsia are compatible with several Operating Systems. Hepsia is compatible with the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The advantage of certain web hosting Control Panels over others is that they include several control levels - administrator, reseller and customer. Each level can access a separate set of functionalities controlling the levels below, so it is easy to establish a reseller web hosting website and commence making money by selling web hosting services to other persons. As clients will monitor what percentage of the system resources is consumed, but will not be able to view the real figures, even a small-size virtual server hosting account will be enough to start a small-size shared hosting website hosting enterprise and make capital.

The VPS: an Autonomous, Inexpensive Solution

A VPS is a relatively cheap hosting service, but it is powerful enough to support web pages such as a very popular online store or a large company web site. As its administration is easy, it is the preferred pick of both newcomers and expert users.