What are VPSs?

To meet the demand for affordable, but reliable hosting solutions, providers initiated a midway website hosting platform - the VPS. This is a virtual simulation of a web server that functions exactly like a : dedicated web server and is much more advanced than any shared website hosting plan. At the same time, as lots of accounts are set up on the very same physical web server and each user pays for their account, the cost of a VPS plan is much lower than the cost of a dedicated server. A small-scale VPS plan is slightly more high-priced than the most powerful shared web hosting account, but its resources surpass by far those of the shared website hosting package.

VPS Virtualization Consoles: OpenVZ and KVM

Each individual account is isolated from the rest of the accounts on the server, so each Virtual Private Server can run a different OS and be restarted independently from the rest. The Virtual Servers are administered via a virtualization panel where clients can have a look at all running processes and abort or reboot them, update server-side software applications, keep an eye on the consumed and the available system resources, and much more. OpenVZ, KVM, Virtual PC and VMware are only a couple of examples of virtualization systems utilized for creating and handling private virtual server hosting accounts. They involve different requirements concerning the CPU architecture, the Operating Systems they support, etc. For instance, KVM can run on physical machines with x86 or AMD64 microprocessors, can be installed on a server running both Windows and Linux Operating Systems, and allows both of these OSs to be installed on the concrete virtual private hosting servers.

Managed VPS Services

The virtualization panel lends the user the freedom to administer the VPS autonomously from the provider, sparing you the time you'd have waited for their client support staff to reboot a service or restore a backup. If the client is not experienced, however, we offer an optional upgrade that encompasses Operating System and software installation and update operations, VPS backups, as well as dedicated admin support and troubleshooting operations. We also have a handful of VPS web server data center facility locations to choose from: the United States, Britain and Australia.

Website Hosting Control Panels for VPS

The domain names and the web content on the virtual web server are administered through a hosting Control Panel user interface, similar to a regular shared web hosting account's. The distinction is that with hosting accounts, users receive one particular web hosting CP, while with a VPS account, hosting providers traditionally present a handful of web hosting Control Panels to choose from, and the more trained users can install and utilize the web hosting CP they want. Some virtualization platforms support installing a hosting Control Panel through them to make things simpler for the customer. Unfortunately, the majority of the web hosting Control Panels are paid. Some of them ask for a monthly fee (cPanel requires $13 USD/month, go to BuycPanel.com), while others require a license fee (DirectAdmin). There are other web hosting CPs that restrict the amount of the hosted domains (Plesk). While we discuss web hosting CP-supplied VPS, it's good to mention that, by default, all VPS plans furnished by us comprise the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. The latter offers unmetered hosted domain allowance. Hepsia comes at no extra licence charge, so the monthly price of the private virtual server hosting package selected by the customer does not fluctuate. Moreover, Hepsia perhaps has the greatest Domain Manager on the website hosting CP marketplace.

CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Powered VPS Plans

The web hosting CP interface permits customers to administer domain name, files, databases, FTP and mail address accounts, to observe bandwidth and load logs and to take a glimpse at elaborate stats about the utilized and the left resources. Similar to the virtualization panels, the hosting CPs are created to operate under a particular Operating System. For instance, cPanel, which is one of the most well known web hosting CPs, runs exclusively under Linux CentOS, whereas Enkompass, which is built by the very same company, works solely under Windows. Other website hosting CPs like Plesk and Hepsia are compatible with several Operating Systems. Hepsia is compatible with the CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. The advantage of some hosting Control Panels over others is that they include different control levels - administrator, reseller and client. Each level can access a separate set of functions controlling the levels underneath, so it is simple to establish a reseller web hosting website and start making money by offering web hosting services to other individuals. As customers will observe what percentage of the resources is used up, but will not be able to view the real numbers, even a low-end virtual private web server hosting package will be enough to run a small shared web hosting hosting firm and receive cash.

The VPS: an Autonomous, Inexpensive Solution

A VPS is a comparatively cheap hosting service, but it is advanced enough to support web sites such as a busy web store or a huge corporate web site. As its management is easy, it is the preferred choice of both rookies and knowledgeable users.