If you have ever signed up for the services of a VPN, then you will know it allows you to use servers around the world and IP addresses around the world so that you may cover your tracks when you surf online, or so that you may use websites that are not available in your country. A VPS hosting package is not the same as this. A VPS hosting package offers you a cheaper version of dedicated hosting.
What is dedicated hosting?
It is where you rent a server so that you may use it for whatever you wish. It is overkill for just hosting your blog, but you may use it to host numerous websites, to sell hosting services, or to host software that is used remotely. You can bet your bottom dollar that Facebook has numerous dedicated servers working for it.
Virtual Private Server
Knowing that VPS hosting is your own virtual private server will help visualize what a VPS hosting package does. It goes further than shared hosting but not as far as dedicated hosting. VPS works by allowing the running of several virtualized operating systems on just one machine. There may be just one physical server but it runs several virtual operating systems on it. Each of these acts as if it were a dedicated server and that is what you pay for with VPS hosting.
You are going to get a portion of RAM when you use a virtual private server. This is handy for the fact that no other user can access your RAM, which means it will not be used up by another when you need it the most.
Where is VPS hosting and VPN the same?
Security would be the biggest point. With VPN, your surfing is more secure, and with VPS hosting your website is more secure. You are not sharing your operating system with anybody else, which lower the chances of them being able to access your files.
Just like with VPN, you also get more control with VPS, but the control with VPS is far superior. Even though there are other people using the server, it is possible to reboot your server as you use with VPS. You can reboot and it affects nobody else using the server. The control also extends to customization with VPS hosting too, as you can add and remove software from your server too, which gives you a tremendous amount of control.
ServerPronto offers the best affordable and secure hosting service in all dedicated server packages.
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