VPS Hosting

Choosing An A2 Hosting VPS

Smaller websites with fewer pages and page views do just fine with standard shared hosting, and larger sites with hundreds of pages and thousands or millions of page views definitely need the features and benefits of dedicated server hosting. VPS internet hosting, on the other hand, is an ideal solution for medium-sized businesses and sites with a decent amount of regular traffic. Depending on where your site stacks up, there’s definitely a hosting solution out there for you. A2 Hosting has the affordable fast VPS Hosting solution to meet your needs.

At A2 Hosting, you get three VPS management level options:

1.) Managed VPS

A Managed VPS is a perfect upgrade from a shared hosting account. Offers the same ease-of-use of an A2 Hosting shared hosting account, but with the power of a VPS.

2.) Unmanaged VPS

An Unmanaged VPS is designed for experienced developers who are comfortable working with command line.

3.) Core VPS

Combines all the services of our Managed VPS plans, but also includes full root access for complete control.

What Is VPS Hosting?

As an acronym for Virtual Private Server, VPS is a type of hosting many businesses and digital publishers move on to after outgrowing their shared hosting plans. It is also referred to as a virtual dedicated server, or VDS Hosting. VPS hosting offer increased control and provide you with the ability to perform more advanced functions with your website. Unlike shared hosting, VPS server space is split up into self-contained units.

In order to gain a better understanding of this popular hosting option, you need to first understand dedicated server hosting and what a VPS actually is. Dedicated servers provide many benefits, such as security, privacy, and a range of dedicated resources. With a dedicated server, there’s no competing with other websites for storage space, bandwidth, and speed. It truly is ideal for dynamic websites or any large enterprise-level site with hundreds or thousands of daily visitors.

A VPS on the other hand, offers a similar hosting environment to a dedicated server, but operates via shared hosting. In other words, you’re still sharing a server with other digital publishers, but you have added privacy and capabilities.

A VPS web host must provide flexible and scalable plans, highly secure data centers, and most of all, a super-friendly and knowledgeable support staff with a ton of experience in dealing with a wide-variety of server configurations. Lucky for you, A2 Hosting provides just that!

Why Choose A VPS Server?

Most novice website owners begin with shared hosting plans. Designed for small sites without the need for a lot of bandwidth and storage space, shared hosting is a popular option for many site owners. However, once your website outgrows the limitations of shared hosting, a VPS will likely be your next step.

A key aspect of VPS internet hosting is its virtualization capabilities. With VPS, the hosting provider divides each physical server into multiple smaller virtual servers with private and dedicated RAM and hard drive space. This provides site owners with a more isolated hosting environment without disruptions from other clients sharing server space.

These added features make VPS internet hosting ideal for small publishers and businesses that want added peace of mind and don’t mind paying for it. If you’re worried about the performance of your site being affected by others on a shared hosting plan, a VPS is definitely the way to go.

Advantages of Using A VPS Host

Packed with pros and with very few cons, a virtual private server is a terrific compromise between the affordability of shared hosting and the privacy, security, and performance of dedicated hosting. Let’s take a look at some of the pros of a VPS: 

• Customers share the cost of server hardware despite experiencing features found with dedicated hosting
• A VPS Server can be set-up in practically no time
• Greater server access, allowing you to control its settings yourself
• The ability to publish and remove sites right from your own control panel
• VPS software can be installed and modified at will
• Each VPS segment is run in a private environment that is inaccessible and cannot be interrupted or viewed by a VPS neighbor on the server.
• VPS hosting offers the same level of system administration as found on a dedicated server
• Despite sharing a server with other VPS customers, each VPS account acts independently from one another including control of boots, shutdown and reboots

In addition to these advantages, VPS Server web hosting also allows you to modify your operating system just like a dedicated server. How cool is that?

Like anything in life, however, there are a few potential drawbacks to using a VPS as well, such as:

• Since you get more resources with a VPS, you will see a price increase compared to a shared hosting account
• You need to know a little bit about servers and server administration
• If you are unfamiliar with command line, there is the potential for making a mistake

Understanding What VPS Web Hosting Is

Are you still struggling with the VPS Concept? Try this association to better understand the VPS Web Hosting environment. Try comparing a web server to an apartment building that can be divided up in two ways:

1.) The building can be divided into apartments where each is a smaller, individual home; just as a server can be broken into VPSes that are essentially smaller, individual servers.

2.) Another option is leaving the apartment building as a massive, single home; just like an entire server can be used for a massive, single dedicated hosting account.

VPS SSD Hosting

For even faster performance, make sure to choose VPS SSD Hosting from A2 Hosting. Instead of hosting on traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) that rely on spinning disks, our solid state drives (SSD) VPS solutions use flash technology that help improve your page load speeds.