VPS Web Hosting - a review

Posted by dwsprasanna on April 29th, 2011

VPS web hosting has gained a lot of importance in some time. This is among the hot topics these days on World Wide Web. VPS, virtual private server, as the abbreviation tells, is not completely private. This is actually made in a way that it seems private. This is also known as VDS or virtual dedicated server.  There are various VPS web-hosts on the internet, but the best ones are InMotion hosting, iXWebHosting, LunarPages, HostGator, HostRocket and MyHosting. The commonly asked question here is how VPS hosting is better than shared hosting. In shared hosting, there are two major issues, which everyone is concerned about i.e. security and performance.

When a website or sites are hosting with shared hosting they are actually fighting for power and resources with other websites, which are there with you on the server; this way their issues becomes your issues too. Private hosting provides greater flexibility and control, better power and security. In short, it has everything, which a small to midsized business wants. However, just like everything has some loops with the advantages, here the maintenance and upkeep is in owner’s hands, while in shared server, it is completely managed. There is other troubleshooting involved here too like security updates, patches and other updates for the server. However, these aren’t that big a problem as they could be easily managed. The owner needs to be completely aware of the upkeep and how to deal with it.

The best thing about VPS web hosting is that it is cheaper than dedicated server is and gives almost the same level of performance and storage. It is like having dedicated server hosting except that the server you have is not real, that is, it is virtual and so, the advantages are limited but are enough for a medium sized business.

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