What is the additional mean of a VPS server?
If you want to know about VPS then you have to know what is shared hosting.
This we are three friends (A, B, C) having 3 websites. A company named hostingDotCom is selling hosting. We purchased hosting from same company. What will happen?
hostingDotCom is going to purchase a hosting server, they will create 3 folder inside the server named (folderA/websiteA, folderB/websiteB, folderC/websiteC). We are hosting our websites on respective folder. folderA can be accessed by user A, who can not access folderB, folderC. But resource is shared between three users/folders/websites.
What is resource sharing? assume that folderC/websiteC has lots of traffic. So server will be busy, more ram will be used and more bandwidth. Though websiteA and websiteB has less visitor/traffic but they will also see ram is busy and website loading slowly.
Most Important, If you need to install any extra software on your server then you can not do it yourself. You have to ask your hosting company to do it for you. If their policy do not allow to install the software then they will not dot it for you.
Restrictions are applied like you can not send 300/500 email from your hosting per day. On any other service that uses resource will be restricted.
But the benefit is for company’s business growth hosting company perform some responsibility of their own like taking automatic backup, port management, email management and something more.
Company allows user to manage different hosting features using software like cPanel, Plesk (they are paid software, company has to pay annually).
Most dangerous point is that owner of the hosting company has access to the folders. So this is an ethical point of view that are they doing anything with files. So if it is only a company’s description type website then you can go for shared hosting.
Here comes the solution with VPS(Virtual Private Server) whole server (resource like ram, bandwidth, IP ) owned by you.
# You can install any kind of software you like.
# You can choose the operating system software also for Linux it could be (ubuntu, cent OS, fedora, redhat etc).
# You have to take backup yourself and configure this by yourself.
# If you want to manage features of your VPS hosting then you can choose paid software like cPanel/Plesk or free software like virtual min.
# If any website is blocked for your country, then you can visit that website from your VPS server. Cause VPS server will have different IP address.
# From VPS server you send thousands of email per day. It is your choice.