A VPS or Virtual Personal Server is a virtual mechanism or simply a virtual machine that is offered or hosted by internet hosting services that also hosts your websites for personal or professional purposes. It basically is a server upon a server. To simplify it further, it would suffice to say that its runs on the same software in the same physical machine where other customer’s too have their own personal virtual servers. A VPS takes care of customized needs as you get access to your own virtual working space however they all share a common physical component. This is so done as to minimize the idle time of many computers as they now work on one and also efficiently use and share other common resources like printer, sharing of important files etc. One importnt aspect is that each of these virtual server can have a different linux VPS operating system.
VPS Hosting
A number of companies today understand the concept of shared virtual spaces and also understand the importance and benefits of it and hence willingly have started offering private server hosting which is one step beyond your regular web service hosting. Each linux VPS in this operating system runs independently and also lets the other virtual servers run completely on their own without creating any disturbance. Since a host computer can run simultaneously many virtual servers on it, it may be defined as the need of the day.
Linux VPS operating system
Linux VPS was created by adding virtual operating systems on Linux Kernel and is developed and distributed as open source software. It can easily partition resources on the physical component or the computer thus letting each virtual server enjoy their share of resources. However they can or do share a common file system and common set of files as it is easier to pool similar information at one place on the computer.
There are many other linux vps Operating System that are used in the market for better productivity and performance of the websites. These big guns include Centos, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Mandriva, Gentoo etc that have simplified the entire concept VPS simple enough to understand. Out of these however, Ubuntu and Centos are most claimed for better performance and are easy to operate or navigate. Each of them have their own set of objectives to achieve hence a fair comparison between them is not possible. These Linux and other VPS not only help in segregating customers and account pooling but also provide you with the best services in the industry.