Hey I made a website and want to host it on a good web host but I'm confused by VPS hosting. What's that? Can I put my website on it? Is it different from other web hosting? Thanks guys!
A:
There are roughly two types of VPS's: managed and unmanaged. A managed VPS will most often be more expensive, but you don't have to do all server management (software installation and configuration, security, backups etc.) yourself. With an unmanaged VPS you will get a fresh operating system installation (you can most often choose between Linux and Windows) and have to setup everything yourself. If you don't have any idea how to do this, then don't try it!
Of course, if you have the money, you can also get an unmanaged VPS and hire someone to do the management, but this will probably be more expensive than a managed VPS.
To summarize: a managed VPS will probably be comparable to shared webhosting (depends upon the company), while you need to have (or hire) system administration skills for an unmanaged VPS.
muksie
2010-09-20 19:08:38