Description of Virtual Private Servers

To fulfill the need for affordable, but reliable hosting services, suppliers started an intermediate website hosting solution - the VPS hosting. This is a virtual emulation of a server that works exactly like a : dedicated hosting server and is much more powerful than any shared web hosting plan. At the same time, as plenty of accounts are created on the very same physical machine and each user pays for their account, the cost of a VPS hosting account is considerably lower than the price for a dedicated server. A low-end VPS hosting plan is a bit more high-priced than the most powerful shared hosting account, but its system resources exceed by far those of the shared web hosting package.

VPS Hosting Virtualization Consoles: OpenVZ and KVM

Each single account is insulated from the remaining accounts on the web server, so each Virtual Private Server can run a separate OS and be rebooted autonomously from the rest. The Virtual Servers are managed via a virtualization panel where customers can keep track of all running tasks and stop or reboot them, update server-side software, take a look at the consumed and the remaining resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are merely several examples of software platforms used for setting up and administering private virtual server web hosting plans. They have different requirements in relation to the central processing unit architecture, the Operating Systems they support, and so on. For example, KVM can run on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 processors, can be installed on a web hosting server running both Windows and Linux Operating Systems, and allows both of these Operating Systems to be installed on the actual virtual private web servers.

Managed VPS Hosting Services

The virtualization platform offers the user the freedom to administer the VPS hosting autonomously from the web hosting provider, saving you the time you'd have waited for their customer support team to restart a specific service or restore a backup. If the client is not an expert, though, we provide an optional upgrade that contains OS and software application installation and update operations, VPS hosting backups, as well as dedicated administrator support and troubleshooting procedures. We also have a handful of private virtual server datacenter facility locations to choose from: North America, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Web Hosting CPs for VPS Hosting

The domains and the content on the virtual web server are administered through a website hosting CP tool, similar to a standard shared web hosting account's. The difference is that with web hosting packages, clients obtain one concrete CP, while with a VPS hosting account, providers usually offer a handful of web hosting CPs to pick from, and the more knowledgeable users can install and utilize the web hosting Control Panel they like. Certain virtualization platforms support installing a web hosting Control Panel through them to render it simpler for the customer. Unluckily, most website hosting CPs are not free of charge. Some require a monthly tax (cPanel asks for 13 USD/month, have a peek at BuycPanel.com), while others ask for a licence tax (DirectAdmin). There are other web hosting Control Panels that limit the amount of the hosted domain names (Plesk). While we talk about web hosting Control Panel-supplied VPS hosting, it's useful to state that, by default, all VPS hosting accounts delivered by us ship with the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. The latter includes unlimited hosted domain allowance. Hepsia is offered at no additional license charge, hence the monthly cost of the private virtual web server hosting package picked by the customer does not change. Last, but not least, Hepsia probably sports the finest Domain Manager on the hosting Control Panel market.

CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Powered VPS Hosting Plans

The web hosting CP tool permits clients to handle domain name, files, databases, FTP and electronic mail accounts, to see bandwidth and load logs and to view comprehensive statistics concerning the utilized and the free system resources. Comparable with the virtualization consoles, the website hosting CPs are constructed to function under a certain OS. For example, cPanel, which is one of the best known web hosting CPs, works only under Linux CentOS, whereas Enkompass, which is made by the same corporation, operates only under Windows. Other web hosting CPs such as Plesk and Hepsia support several Operating Systems. Hepsia supports the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The advantage of certain web hosting Control Panels over others is that they involve several control levels - administrator, reseller and customer. Each level has access to a separate set of functionalities controlling the levels underneath, so it is simple to create a reseller web hosting website and commence making money by selling web hosting services to other people. As customers will keep track of what percentage of the resources is utilized, but will not see the real figures, even a small VPS hosting server account will suffice to establish a small-sized shared web hosting web hosting firm and earn capital.

The VPS Hosting: an Autonomous, Cut-Rate Solution

A VPS hosting is a relatively cheap hosting service, but it is powerful enough to support web pages such as a highly visited web store or a huge corporate website. As its administration is simple, it is the preferred choice of both inexperienced users and skilled customers.