Web hosting, VPS or dedicated server?

Don't know the exact differences between web hosting, virtual private server (VPS) and dedicated server and can't decide which is the better solution for your website or other application?

If you want to run a website, you can use any of our hosting products - webhosting, VPS and dedicated server. The differences between them are in the options they offer, the complexity of management, performance, the degree of sharing the server with other customers, etc.

Web Hosting

The simplest option for the general public is web hosting. Here, the customer does not have to worry about many things - just upload the content of your site via FTP, fill the database, create e-mail boxes for your domain through the administration and that's it.

We fully take care of the servers on which the web, e-mail, database and other related services are operated. We perform maintenance, security settings, updates, monitor their functionality, load, solve all related problems (except for errors directly in the customer's PHP application).

However, web hosting options are fixed. You can only run PHP applications on it using MySQL/MariaDB database. For PHP there are exactly given modules that can be used, there are various restrictions - max. time of running a script, max. memory for running one script, etc. These limitations cannot be modified or changed individually.

If you are looking for web hosting for a more demanding website, choose an additional service Extra - offers more performance, better parameters and daily backups.

Web hosting is a shared service. This means that one web hosting server hosts several hundred customers who share the performance of the entire server.

Despite some limitations, web hosting is the most widely used service that fully satisfies the vast majority of customers. The limiting parameters are set quite high and a large variety of PHP modules are available. The customer does not have to worry about anything and does not need to have any deep computer knowledge. Most open source applications - content management systems, e-shops, discussion forums, etc. - run on our web hosting.

    Virtual Private Server (VPS)

    The second stage is virtual servers (VPS). Here the customer gets his own "empty" server, running in a virtualized environment, on which he can run absolutely any operating system with any software and therefore any application. He has full access to the server (as Administrator for Windows server or as root for Linux). If he installs PHP on the server, he can put in any modules and use any settings.

    VPS is therefore about the possibility of free choice - the customer can do anything on it, because the server is only for himself and does not influence other customers in these matters.

    Here, however, the customer must already have a relatively good understanding of things related to the operation of their own server, the installation and configuration of the operating system, server security, installation and configuration of applications on the server, etc. From us you will get a bare server with a basic installation of some operating system, or Debian ISP package (which also includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, mailserver, DNS server and ISPConfig control panel). The rest is up to the customer. We only take care that the virtualization environment works. What runs on the VPS is already fully taken care of by the customer.

    However, VPS continues to share some resources with other customers. We can run several dozen virtual servers on a single physical server. Thus, the VPS shares CPU power and I/O power with others on the same server. So VPS is still not suitable for extremely demanding applications that need many processors, more than 4 GB RAM, etc.

    Dedicated servers

    For the most demanding customers dedicated servers. In this case, we rent a physical server that is fully available to the customer. As on VPS, the customer can run anything on such a server, but in addition, he has the entire performance of the server really only for himself.

    With dedicated servers, it is also possible to design your own individual configuration - type and number of processors, memory, type and number of disks. Some of them are in stock, some are available on request.

    Hardware is rented to the customer, it cannot be purchased. But on the other hand, we guarantee the hardware, we repair its faults at our expense, we replace the faulty components with our money.

    But again, as with VPS - we don't care what runs on this hardware. This is again entirely up to the customer - either he understands it himself or he gets someone to take care of it for him.

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