Hosting solutions can be confusing. If you're in the process of launching a new website, upgrading your web hosting solution or switching hosting companies, there are very good reasons to select a budget VPS hosting solution. Like shared hosting, VPS hosting, which stands for virtual private server hosting, is exceptionally affordable. Unlike shared hosting, though, VPS gives you full control of your website and hosting environment, which makes it the ideal solution for small to medium sized business websites. The benefits of SSD VPS hosts are even more marked, especially for websites that are highly intensive or rely on heavy database usage to deliver pages.
What Is SSD VPS?
VPS is a virtual server - a section of a hard drive that has its own independent operating system. That allows you to shut down, boot and reboot the machine without affecting any other machines hosted on the same physical server. SSD VPS makes use of solid-state technology to leverage better performance so that your website runs faster and more smoothly. Here's a quick rundown of the top five benefits of hosting your website on a budget VPS server.
Affordability
VPS provides you a great middle ground between the instability of shared hosting and the independence of a dedicated physical server. A basic VPS budget plan can cost you as little as $7 a month and even the most advanced plan will still be considerably less than $100 a month. For that price, you'll get flexibility, stability and independence you can't get with a cheaper shared hosting plan.
Upgradeability
Need more space or computing power? It's easier to upgrade your SSD VPS than just about any other type of hosting plan. You can easily increase the allowed CPU, memory and disk limits as you need it with a simple request to your hosting provider.
Control
On a shared server, you're at the mercy of the hosting company's choice of operating systems, server performance, custom applications and allowed scripts. On a VPS, you have full root access, so you can install the operating system of your choice, make tweaks you need to boost performance and allow access and install applications and scripts that you need to run your website the way you want to run it.
Performance
VPS offers better, more stable performance than shared hosting because you're not sharing resources with other customers and other websites. You don't have to worry about runaway applications and scripts on other websites eating up bandwidth and making your site inaccessible. Conversely, you don't have to worry about your own website affecting the performance of the websites of other customers who share your server. And, as noted, those performance benefits are amplified when you choose SSD VPS, which takes advantage of the better performance offered by solid-state drives.
Security
Aside from an actual dedicated server, there is no type of hosting that is more secure than VPS. With shared hosting, all the firewalls and security software in the world won't protect your website if you're hosted on a shared server with badly coded websites. Shared servers are notorious for hacking "epidemics" that happen when one weak website opens a security hole that makes every other website on the same server vulnerable. VPS eliminates that risk by isolating your website in its own secure environment.
Learn more about VPS and SSD VPS before you make a decision to move or upgrade your hosting solution. You'll find that it provides you with everything you need at a very affordable price.
Author Resource:
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the world's MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.
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