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Virtual Web Hosting

Virtual web hosting services have been gaining rapid popularity these days. These types of hosting solutions are better known as VPS hosting. The simple reason behind their popularity is the very fact that they charges you a very little amount in comparison to dedicated hosting, but you still enjoy dedicated size features and functionalities. It is an innovative concept where a shared server is developed in a way that each allocation on it behaves as a separate server. Since it is just an allocation and not an actual physical web server, it is usually referred to as Virtual Private Server.

There are technologies like Virtuuzzo using which you can create innovative allocations on a single physical web server. Just as in shared server hosting, in VPS as well, you have to share the server space and its resources with multiple other users. However, the good thing here is that the allocation assigned to you remains unaffected by what is happening on other allocations. You will be amazed to know that you can even use different operating systems on different allocations. This thing is not possible in a shared server hosting.

This way, we can see that in a shared hosting, you get no control of the web server that is hosting your website. On the other hand, virtual web hosting gives you full control on the “part” of the web server that is hosting your sites. Just as in a dedicated server hosting, you may also be charged a little amount of additional fee if you go for a fully managed server.