This Virtual Private Server solution offers a ‘hand-off’ approach and is great for persons without any technical knowledge or experience in running or maintaining a server. Managed VPS hosting will differ depending on the hosting provider. You also get to decide how to configure your server, even deciding which software to install.īecause there are two types of VPS hosting, you also get to choose if you want the web hosting provider to manage the running of the VPS for you or whether you want to manage it yourself. As a VPS user, you benefit from dedicated resources such as memory, processor and storage. This normally results in bottlenecks and downtime. With shared hosting, users share and compete for server processing power with other websites. By using virtualisation technology to divide the physical server into multiple virtual machines, VPS is able to keep your information separate and private. A VPS stores your website’s files and data in a virtual setting linked to a physical machine.

Here’s a simple breakdown of what a VPS is.

Unmanaged vps