VPS Hosting Defined

To fulfill the need for cut-price, but reliable hosting services, vendors presented a transitional web hosting solution - the VPS hosting. This is a virtual emulation of a web hosting server that functions exactly like a : dedicated hosting server and is much more advanced than any shared hosting solution. At the same time, as lots of accounts are hosted on the same physical server and each customer pays for their account, the price for a VPS hosting package is markedly lower than the price for a dedicated server. A basic VPS hosting account is a bit more high-priced than a hi-end shared web hosting account, but its resources surpass by far those of the shared hosting package.

VPS Hosting Virtualization Platforms: OpenVZ and KVM

Each specific account is isolated from all other accounts on the web server, so each Virtual Private Server can run its own Operating System and be restarted autonomously from the remaining ones. The Virtual Servers are administered via a virtualization console where customers can monitor all running tasks and stop or reboot them, update server-side software, watch the consumed and the available system resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are only a couple of instances of virtualization systems utilized for setting up and administering Virtual Private Server web hosting plans. They involve diverse requirements regarding the central processing unit architecture, the OSs they support, etc. For instance, KVM can run on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 microprocessors, can be installed on a web hosting server running both Windows and Linux OSs, and permits both of these Operating Systems to be activated on the actual VPS servers.

Managed VPS Hosting Services

The virtualization system lends the client the power to manage the VPS hosting independently from the provider, sparing you the time you'd have waited for their support staff to restart a specific service or recover a backup. If the client is not skilled enough, however, we provide an optional upgrade that encompasses Operating System and software installation and update operations, VPS hosting backups, as well as dedicated administrator support and troubleshooting operations. We also have a handful of virtual server data center locations to pick from: America, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Web Hosting Control Panels for VPS Hosting

The domains and the content on the virtual web hosting server are administered via a website hosting CP user interface, similar to a standard shared web hosting plan's. The distinction is that with web hosting packages, clients receive one concrete website hosting Control Panel, while with a VPS hosting package, providers commonly present a couple of website hosting Control Panels to pick from, and the more skilled clients can install and utilize the website hosting Control Panel they wish. Certain virtualization panels support installing a website hosting CP through them to make it easier for the user. Unluckily, the majority of the web hosting CPs are paid. Some of them demand a monthly tax (cPanel charges $13 USD/month, check out BuycPanel.com), while others ask for a licence tax (DirectAdmin). There are other web hosting CPs that limit the amount of the hosted domain names (Plesk). While we discuss website hosting Control Panel-supplied VPS hosting, it's worthwhile to state that, by default, all VPS hosting packages offered by us offer the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. It includes unlimited hosted domain name allowance. Hepsia is offered at no further licence charge, therefore the monthly price of the virtual private hosting server package picked by the client does not fluctuate. Furthermore, Hepsia perhaps has the finest Domain Manager on the hosting CP marketplace.

CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Based VPS Hosting Packages

The web hosting CP interface enables users to manage domain name, files, databases, FTP and email address accounts, to view bandwidth and load logs and to have a look at elaborate statistics concerning the utilized and the left system resources. Like the virtualization panels, the hosting CPs are conceived to work under a particular Operating System. For example, cPanel, which is one of the most famous web hosting Control Panels, works solely under Linux CentOS, while Enkompass, which is manufactured by the same corporation, runs only under Windows. Other web hosting Control Panels like Plesk and Hepsia are compatible with several OSs. Hepsia supports the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The superiority of certain web hosting CPs over others is that they involve several levels of control - administrator, reseller and customer. Each level has access to a different set of features controlling the levels underneath, so it is easy to create a reseller web hosting website and commence making money by reselling web hosting solutions to other individuals. As clients will be informed about what amount of the system resources is utilized, but will not know the actual numbers, even a small-size VPS server web hosting plan will suffice to start a small-sized shared web hosting web hosting company and make money.

The VPS Hosting: an Independent, Low-Cost Solution

A VPS hosting is a comparatively cheap hosting service, but it is advanced enough to support websites such as a very famous online store or a large corporate site. As its administration is simple, it is the favored choice of both inexperienced clients and competent customers.