Shared vs. VPS vs. dedicated hosting

Building on the concept of “tenancy,” the most common analog to the differences between shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting is the difference between types of housing: Shared hosting is analogous to apartment housing, where tenants share services like parking, a laundry room, a swimming pool, etc. Dedicated hosting is most similar single-family homeownership, where everything—including … Read more

VPS (Virtual Private Server)

A VPS, or virtual private server, is a form of multi-tenant cloud hosting in which virtualized server resources are made available to an end user over the internet via a cloud or hosting provider. Each VPS is installed on a physical machine, operated by the cloud or hosting provider, that runs multiple VPSs. But while … Read more