VPS Hosting is a form of web hosting that uses Virtual Private Servers. Although the internet sites are hosted on the same physical machine, VPS Hosting allows each website to be fully independent as if each were by itself separate machine.
How VPS Hosting Works?
The simplest way to visualize how VPS Hosting work is to use the almirah analogy. Each virtual server, or “container”, on the device is much like a drawer. You are able to install any software you want or restart your own container without affecting the other container on the device, similar to how you can renovate your own personal drawer without affecting the others.
On a shared hosting server, issues with one website might cause the entire server to drop, causing all the other websites on that server to decrease with it. This might not happen on a VPS Hosting because only the problematic container would decrease, but the other container would be unaffected.
Similarly, some high traffic websites in a shared hosting environment may hog most of the server’s resources, thus causing other websites on that server to be unreachable. This may not happen on a VPS Hosting as each container may only utilize the resources that are allocated to it.
Why Use VPS Web Hosting?
VPS Hosting is great as it slips in nicely and bridges the gap between shared hosting and dedicated hosting services. VPS provides you with the independence and flexibility of a dedicated hosting service, but at the price of a high-end shared hosting service.
For users whose websites have outgrown their shared hosting service but can’t quite afford a dedicated server, VPS Hosting may be the best solution.