1. If you are driving more traffic to your site or adding
more sites to your current hosting plan, upgrading to a
dedicated VPS hosting plan can be an affordable
solution for you.
Virtual Server Hosting
2. How does dedicated VPS hosting work? If shared hosting can be
equated to an apartment building with many apartments, a virtual private
server (VPS) can be considered similar to renting an apartment in a
building with a small number of apartments While you share the building
with the occupants of other apartments, you have privacy and security in
your own apartment and can do what you please The server space in a
VPS is secure and is used by a very limited number of people, and there
aren't any restrictions on what you can do with your space
3. This means that you can sublet your space to other people and charge
them a monthly fee or an annual fee for the hosting space you provide
them Benefits of VPS Hosting VPS hosting gives you root access to
the server which allows you to configure or install several scripts and
programs as per your requirements So if you have to optimize your PHP
or MySQL settings for your own website, you are free to do that in VPS
hosting
4. Apache Virtual Hosts can be used on dedicated VPS hosting to host an
unlimited number of websites The virtual private server can also be
used like a mail server, an FTP server or any other kind of server that you
would like VPS hosting gives you space on a server and this space can
be used for things like file storage or for backups
5. The purpose of a dedicated VPS hosting is to give its users the
flexibility and the freedom of Virtual Server Hosting dedicated hosting at a
substantially lower cost It is a great compromise between shared hosting
and dedicated hosting giving you best of both worlds Users of shared
hosting might be well aware of instances when the host has suspended
the hosting account in case their websites received too much traffic
6. However, this wouldn't be a problem with virtual private servers By
paying just a little more than the cost of shared hosting, you can get all
the benefits of a dedicated server by signing up for a VPS hosting
account
7. Cost Upgrading to a dedicated VPS hosting plan will not break the
bank, at least not as much as a dedicated server would Good VPS
hosting plans can be found for around $30, with prices increasing with
additional features, while a dedicated server will run you into the
hundreds
8. While that $30 per month may be 3-5 times what you're paying for
a shared hosting account, the advantages far outweigh the additional
costs Dedicated VPS hosting is the perfect stepping stone between
shared and dedicated hosting plans
9. It enables webmasters to pay only for what they need once they outgrow
their shared plan, and only move to a dedicated server when it's
necessary
