Virtual Private Server :
We live in the modern era. Everything travels fast, especially
information. And to keep up with the pace, it is vital for every citizen
of the civilized world, to ensure that his idea or business product
is available to as many people as possible. An excellent way of doing
that is to create a website. Of course, not every website becomes
successful, however, when that happens, the website owner must look for a
way to improve the site’s productivity and ability to maintain a larger
number of visitors/users. The way of doing that is switching from standard
shared hosting to a
virtual server.
VPS hosting
To better understand what the
VPS hosting service is, let’s first have a look at what the standard shared web hosting is all about.
Shared web hosting
The shared web hosting service is a form of web hosting, where multiple clients share
the features and the capabilities of one server. Each account, created
on that server, can use a certain amount of disk space, bandwidth,
processor time, etc.. The accounts are independent of each other,
however, since they all share the same operating system, they cannot be
limited to only using the allowed hosting features. Therefore, when one
account exceeds, for instance, its CPU usage, then it will get suspended
by the hosting company.
Such actions are necessary, to prevent one account harming the others,
which share the same server by taking too much of their processor time.
In most cases, this is not a problem, since most of the websites
throughout the web are quite mediocre and do not require a lot of
hosting features. However, for those who are quite popular, or on their
way to becoming famous, such suspensions could be quite devastating.
Therefore, a service is needed, where such problems can avoid and one
such service, is the virtual private hosting.
Virtual server
Virtual
Private Server, virtual server, or simply VPS, is a more advanced form
of hosting, which allows the user to have complete control over the
configuration of his web hosting service. It’s quite a complicated
system, therefore, going into details about how it is created will be
quite time-taking, but then again, this is not the topic. In a
nut-shell, the VPS is much like a dedicated server. However, it is a
virtual machine, instead of a physical one. It pretty much offers the
same capabilities of a dedicated hosting
and the only main difference is that virtual servers have lower amounts
of hosting features, such as less disk space and bandwidth. However,
their price compensates for that since they are much cheaper than their
physical analogs. There are usually multiple VPS accounts within the
same server, however, unlike shared hosting accounts each VPS has its
operating system, which makes it completely independent from its peers.
In other words, the VPS cannot exceed its CPU limitation, for instance.
Therefore, the hosting company will have no need to suspend the account
for overloading the web server itself. This will significantly reduce
the average percentage of downtime for the website in question.
Benefits of the virtual private hosting
Aside
the reduced risk of account suspension, VPS accounts come with a lot of
features which are absent in shared hosting packages. Each of those
features contributes to the high flexibility and service diversity that
the
VPS hosting offers. Let’s look at more details at some of the most important hosting attributes of the virtual private server:
Root access
As
mentioned, each VPS has its operating system. That allows for the VPS
user to make alterations to the OS without interfering with the
configuration of the actual web server. By having root access to the
server configuration files, the user may take advantage of certain
settings and software, which are usually unavailable on shared hosting
accounts. That allows for better website flexibility and performance if,
of course, done properly.
Privacy
Since
VPS accounts cannot interfere with each other, this also means that
there isn’t a risk for your account to be down, because some other VPS
user has overloaded the web server. Also, each VPS has its dedicated IP
address, therefore, if someone on the same server gets blacklisted for
spam or some other malicious activity, your service will continue to be
operational since the IP address will be different. Also, the dedicated
IP helps for getting better ratings in search engines, such as Google and Yahoo.
Additional functionality
One
of the greatest things about having a VPS is that you can resell its
space to end customers and generate extra profit by doing so. For
instance, if you only have one website on that VPS, and you are not
using all the features that you’re paying for, then you can easily
create separate shared hosting accounts within your VPS and rent them to
other users. To do that, you will need a web hosting control panel that
will allow you to create shared hosting accounts. One such control
panel is the cPanel, which is offered with almost every VPS package. Of
course, there are other control panels which may serve that purpose,
such as DirectAdmin. Using these panels, you can easily create and
manage different shared hosting accounts, which you can then sell to
other people and generate additional income by doing so. Note that VPS
accounts usually come without a control panel by default, therefore,
you will have to select the control panel option while ordering the
service itself. Some companies, such as Znetlive.com
for instance, offer multiple control panel solutions, therefore, make
sure that you select the one that suits you best, since re-installing
the control panel once the server is active is not always an option.
In conclusion
The
VPS web hosting service is an excellent way to securing a safe and
reliable environment for your website. That, combined with all the other
possibilities that the VPS service offers, makes the
virtual private hosting service one of the most diverse and flexible web hosting service available on the market today.
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