Understanding How VPS Hosting Works
VPS hosting is an economical hosting for webmasters who have outgrown the limit of the resources in their shared hosting plan. The specifications of a VPS hosting may vary across different web hosting providers. All VPS hosting offers dedicated RAM, disk space and CPU. For the unmanaged hosting, you can perform customization on the server such as adjust the server resources, install programs and etc.
Some VPS hosting plan may offer burstable memory. Burstable memory is a reserved RAM memory that can be used in unexpected event for a temporary period of time, for example a burstable 150Mbps Connection. It will be useful when your website suddenly receive increase of traffic.
There are three levels of support for VPS hosting including unmanaged, semi managed and fully managed hosting. In unmanaged hosting, you will handle all the issues that occur on the software and server performance. However, the web hosting companies will take care of the server hardware. In semi managed hosting, the web hosting company will handle some of the issues related to the hardware and software depending on the user level agreement (USL). In managed hosting, the web hosting company handles all the hosting and server hardware issues. The web host will help you to install the basic custom software on the server. You must know that the support levels for the VPS hosting plans are not the same with all the web hosting providers so it is essential to ask them what supports are included in each hosting plan.
The advantage of unmanaged hosting is that you will have super user access to the server. This gives you full access to configuration files on the server. With the super user access, you can install custom software on the server. Unmanaged hosting is suitable for expert users who know how to use a server. Managed hosting is easier to use because you don’t have to perform the chores for your website manually. You can easily carry out tasks on your website via the control panel. Various types of control panels are used in web hosting including Hepsia, DirectAdmin, Plesk and cPanel.
You should avoid VPS hosting that is below the market price. A cheap VPS hosting will give you lots of problems that make it perform even worse than a shared hosting. The key to finding a good VPS hosting is to read reviews from customers. Reading reviews let you determine the pros and cons of various VPS hosting plans.
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