Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Basics of VPS Web Hosting.

By Jay Patel


Shared hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting are the three basic types of hosting services provided by the hosting company based on the sharing of the resources. Cloud hosting which is advanced hosing is also available and more useful for hosting, anyways we are not talking about it. Now let's discuss what stage of business has need and advantage of shared, VPS and dedicated hosting based on the factors called resources, flexibility and traffic as the major factors.

When the business is in the initial stages, starting from almost zero, one can prefer shared hosting. Shared hosting is suggested during this period because of the limited traffic and small set of requirements used for the business. Shared hosting is very economical as the resources and server are shared among the other customers. VPS server is basically required after the business started experiencing web traffic which can be found in statistics. After the business has become brand, when no chance can be taken for any delayed services and uptime, then one can go for dedicated hosting. In this article, let's see how VPS can be useful to handle the high traffic web hosting.

Improved performance: VPS allows independent channel to transfer the web content control the delays to access the website and transfer the web content into the respective browsers. Installing only appropriate resources, leaving the free features apart, make the hosting performance to be boosted without unwanted load for bandwidth.

Independent and appropriate resources: More and dedicated resources like disk space, bandwidth, processor speed and memory enable to handle the huge traffics on the website. More appropriate resources like the operating system required, the software, plug-ins can be installed by you for optimum performance.

Security: the biggest threat to the cyber world presently is the malware and malicious programs, and this threat would be proportional to the traffic of the respective website. Because of the individual channel allocation for transferring the web content in VPS, the threat would be controlled much better. Additional care also can be taken by leaving the maintenance responsibilities to the web hosting companies, where network monitoring for 24/7 to identify the vulnerabilities.

Backup and Restore: every hosting service includes backup and restore for redundancy. Not just that, VPS allows you to configure your automated backup and restores on local system as well as remote server.

Multiple websites: a business may contain more than one website and server. Managing and handling these multiple websites would be easier and more flexible using VPS, because of the root level access and self reboot system they have.




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  1. Thanks for sharing such information.yes the things your article absolutely good.

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