What is a VPS?

VPS is short for Virtual Private Server and it basically mimics a dedicated server within a shared hosting environment. It is technically both shared hosting and dedicated hosting. Simply put it has its own virtualization which is hosted in a high capacity environment where you as a customer can perform upgrades and downgrades of resources (IP addresses, traffic, storage space, RAM, etc.) without affecting your servers’ availability. Everything is done very easily through our OnApp control panel.

It is both an affordable and flexible solution that offers greater freedom and opportunity to the administrator. You can easily scale up and down the performance unlike a dedicated server (which always have the same performance). The advantage of a VPS is that you choose how you want it to be built in the form of operating system and software. On a shared web hosting package you are limited to what is already installed on that single server, but on a VPS, you can install your own applications, modules and configurations just as you want it.