Are you after flexibility and control of your online computing? Break the boundaries of shared Web hosting, or the physical confines of a dedicated server with your own virtual server.

A virtual private server (VPS) is a cost-effective solution for businesses or application and web professionals that want the power and flexibility of a server without the cost and complexity of managing outsourced hardware.

Your new VPS package comes with VM Ware ESX Server, the industry-leading Enterprise Grade virtualization software. Our VPS servers feature Intel® Xeon® Processors and premium server hardware to give you the power and speed you need. And of course all plans are backed by Internet Servers Australan industry-leading customer service and technical support. 

Basically, a VPS hosting plan is something of a middle ground between entry level web hosting plans that rely on services such as PHP/MySQL and co-location setups, which has you owning and managing the hardware and simply renting the “rack space” and the Internet connection from a data center. If you are ready to move on from an entry level plan, but you are not ready to shell out the dough or a co-location, then a VPS hosting plan could be your Shangri-la.

What is Virtual Private Server

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a simulation of hardware by a host operating system that allows another operating system to run on it. Simply put, this allows web developers to host multiple “virtual” servers on just one physical server. To a developer, the benefits seem readily apparent:

Each virtual server, or “private” server, are separated from one another and only accessible via the host server. This means only the host server can access the RAM, CPU, Disk Space, Network throughput etc. For instance, a server may have 2GB RAM, 100GB of disk space, and 2 x 2GHz processors, with 10 VPSes on it. Now depending on what VPS software you go with on the host, each virtual setup either share hardware resources, or have guaranteed access to 200MB RAM, a disk space limit of 10GB, and an effective CPU of 400Mhz. This, of course, is oversimplified a bit in order to help you get the idea.

Most VPS plans are hosted via Linux or FreeBSD, but Windows is not without it’s share of options. However, research has indicated that a Windows plan tends to err on the expensive side and you might be better off going with Linux. So, having said that, for the purpose of this article we will be illustrating using a Linux setup.