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VPS Hosting a Suitable Solution for Online Businesses

by Priya Saxena SEO
E-commerce sites and businesses are looking for various options to get control of the internet and stay in the top of the online marketing with better visibility and traffic. It has become imperative for a website to be more selective when they have to choose a web host suiting their business requirements. Two commonly used platforms have been either shared hosting or the dedicated hosting. Yet another form of web hosting that has been gaining popularity in a rapid way is the VPS hosting.
VPS stands for virtual private server. It offers more security and privacy to the customers than what a shared hosting gives but is also a cost-saving option being cheaper than a dedicated server.  

Beneficial considerations of VPS platform: There are a number of reasons why organizations will find VPS hosting to their liking.

Stability and reliability: VPS is much preferable over shared hosting. The website’s uptime and performance can be affected in shared hosting due to the sheer volume of users. A single wrong step can crash the server and cause hindrance to all websites hosting there.

Control:  With VPS hosting, the customer gets root access to the server. It gives them the power to install any software without the support of the host. All the restrictions faced in shared hosting are overlooked here.

Scalable: Some organizations do not find fluctuations in traffic a big issue but for many new and small businesses it is a crucial factor.  They should be able to balance their performance as and when the situation arises. VPS offers the customer the flexibility of adding more resources as and when required based on the traffic movement with the click of a button. This is more feasible for the customers as it ensures there is no downtime lost. If it was a dedicated server, the technical staff would have to physically do the changes to the server and that would have resulted in loss of time and visitors to the site.
 
Cost effective: More and more businesses are shifting to VPS hosting because of its affordability. It is a good option for all businesses irrespective of their size.

There are various types of plans and packages that the providers offer. The next important thing to consider is regarding the operating system. The commonly used OS are Linux and Windows. Linux is more preferred as it is an open source and works out to be much cheaper. Linux VPS hosting server applications do not ask for any license fee and offers very easy to use control panels in the form of cPanel and Plesk. Windows is not compatible with cPanel and is also much costlier being a commercial offering by Microsoft. Customers get free control with unlimited bandwidth, dedicated IP address, independent CPU and RAM. All the plans are affordable and security comes in the form of firewalls.


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