Why You Should Consider VPS Hosting

VPS Hosting stands for virtual private server hosting. To really understand where VPS server hosting sits in the array of options available for hosting, you need to get a glimpse of the other types of hosting available.

There are three levels of virtual hosting available; shared hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated hosting. Each level incorporates two basic differences:

• The number of other organisations you share the server with
• The amount of customisation and security available

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting is the simplest form to understand. If you have a high volume of traffic and require a lot of customisation, you will want your own server. That way you can update the server to exactly suit your company’s needs. You will never have to worry about downtime or slow load speeds because all of the resources of one server are dedicated to you and your requirements.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting sits on the opposite end of the spectrum. One server is shared between, tens or hundreds of organisations, all pulling on the server’s resources. This can lower security as well as increase the likelihood of server crashes or slow loading times if one, or a few, of the organisations suddenly increase their capacity.

Virtual Private Hosting

Enter VPS hosting which sits nicely in the middle of the two above options. It’s called virtual private hosting because, well, it’s virtually private. Your data sits on virtual private servers shared only with a few other people. For all intents and purposes, except for the cost, it might as well be private. Because only a small number of companies are sharing the resources of virtual private servers the services are a lot more reliable, especially for quickly growing companies who need to scale.

VPS hosting also allows you to customise your section on the server, called a ‘container’, to your own needs. You can set security access at the server level and customise the set up of the server to match your particular organisation’s needs – hosting a particular type of software for instance.

All the above hosting options are available as cloud server hosting options. Putting hosting in the cloud simply means that instead of storing your data physically in an office, you hand over the maintenance and storage of the data to a third party and connect to your data and programs through the internet. This has significant cost and energy savings because experts and high level equipment can be dedicated to the cause.

Get your data stored in the cloud with Complete Cloud’s VPS hosting.