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Quick guide

What are the benefits of VPS hosting?

VPS hosting delivers several important benefits that combine the best features of shared and dedicated hosting. Your favorite VPS features will vary based on how your company uses it.

Empowerment

You get SSH and root access to your environment, giving you more control.

Customization

You get only the features you want, which even includes the operating system (OS) of your choice.

Growth

VPS hosts provide more bandwidth and storage than shared hosting. Scaling is fast and easy.

Data protection

VPS hosting makes it easy to perform server backups. With Liquid Web, daily backups are standard for our VPS environments.

Security

VPS environments are isolated from each other, making them more secure than shared hosting environments.

Versatile

With a VPS, you can host unlimited sites, build an app, host a gaming server, and even create your own cloud network.

Common use cases for VPS hosting

Switch from shared hosting

Most users buy VPS hosting after experiencing unreliable performance, limited resources, and a lack of support with shared hosting.

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Cost control

Unlike pay-as-you-go cloud hosting, VPS resources are reserved and scalable, which limits overages and add-ons.

Server access

For those wanting root access and custom integrations, VPS provides tech freedom without a high price tag.

Scaling down

Dedicated server users sometimes downsize to a VPS to save on costs while maintaining similar security and performance.

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What is managed VPS and is it better?

Managed VPS

With a managed VPS, your hosting company will handle the technical side to ensure functionality and protection of your server. They’ll also handle maintenance, troubleshooting, and software installs, saving you time and making your life considerably easier.

Pros of managed VPS

  • Saves you time
  • Requires no IT expertise
  • OS updates and patches done for you
  • Server changes are made correctly

Cons of managed VPS

  • Costs more than unmanaged
  • Gives more control to a third party

Managed hosting allows company team members to stay current on best practices and new technologies. They also quickly gain on-the-job experience working with a variety of environments and troubleshooting common issues. That means they know how to optimize your environment for performance and security and how to resolve common issues quickly.

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Self managed VPS

With a self-managed VPS, your hosting company is responsible for providing the VPS, maintaining the hardware, and performing system-level health checks. But the VPS customer performs the rest of the maintenance, monitoring, and changes.

Pros of self-managed VPS

  • Cost savings
  • More control

Cons of self-managed VPS

  • Takes time away from core business functions
  • Requires IT expertise
  • OS updates and patches happen manually
  • Potentially reduces overall security and reliability

Self-managed hosting requires asking your IT team members to do the work of a skilled, full-time hosting team while also performing their other duties. And, unless you want to open up the risk of downtime, they’ll have to perform those duties 24/7/365. As you can imagine, companies often end up paying more in the long run due to security breaches and downtime when they choose to go with self-managed hosting.

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Hosting types

VPS vs dedicated hosting

With a VPS, all clients on the server appear as if they’re on a separate dedicated machine but share resources split between hosting accounts. With dedicated hosting, you get full access to all resources on the physical server, including network access, memory, hard drive storage, and processing power.

The difference comes down to how resources are allocated and who has control over them. Here’s how the two compare.

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Performance

Dedicated environments are second to none when it comes to performance. However, VPSs can still deliver plenty of speed, especially if they’re hosted on next-gen cloud infrastructure.

Control

With a dedicated server, you can install any operating system. VPS offers a limited selection. Otherwise, both options give you full root access with control over the OS and all the software in the environment.

Security

Dedicated and VPS environments are both completely isolated and, therefore secure, as long as you’re using a reputable hosting provider.

Cost

VPS has a big edge over dedicated hosting when it comes to cost, as you have more flexibility in the amount of resources you use and pay for. It’s typically less than half the cost of a dedicated server with scalable pricing based on your business needs.

Liquid Web VPS hosting FAQs

Liquid Web offers multiple types of VPS hosting, including self-managed, managed, CPU-optimized, memory-optimized, and general compute-optimized.

Not all VPS hosting plans are managed at Liquid Web. Our VPS hosting plans are managed self-managed to suit every business need. Choose from these options:

  • New companies on a shoestring budget: If you’re primarily choosing hosting based on budget and don’t fall under regulations like PCI, shared hosting will be a cheaper option. However, there are security and performance tradeoffs.
  • Businesses with zero technical skills: Because VPS provides root access to the server, it’s typically used by companies that have at least a basic degree of IT administration and troubleshooting skills. If you do have a skill gap, you can use a managed hosting provider for VPS to handle virtually anything that requires root access. You’ll still need the ability to use cPanel and Plesk for basic tasks.
  • Enterprises that need an entire dedicated server: If you don’t need to split environments into isolated VMs, dedicated servers will most likely be a better choice for you. For example, streaming, database-driven, and other bandwidth-intensive sites typically require a dedicated server.

We recommend VPS for a business that’s:

  • Hosting 1-10 websites
  • Storing company and customer files in a way that’s accessible anywhere in the world
  • Hosting web servers
  • Hosting email
  • Databases
  • Building and delivering cloud-based services for customers
  • Delivering virtual workstations to remote employees
  • Reselling and white labeling hosting

If you’re not sure if a VPS is right for you, our in-house experts can help you determine if it’s the right fit. Start a chat now.

The security of a VPS largely depends on how it is configured, maintained, and managed. Here are a few key ways to improve VPS security:

Use your root access

With root access, you can implement customized security measures, like installing firewalls, configuring intrusion detection systems, and setting up automated security updates to address unique threats relevant to your applications. Liquid Web offers several of these features as add-ons.

Regular updates

Keeping the operating system, software, and applications up to date is crucial. Liquid Web performs regular updates and patches known vulnerabilities on the operating system level, reducing the risk of exploitation by hackers.

Regular backups

Regular backups ensure that you can quickly restore your system in case of a security breach or data loss, minimizing downtime and potential damage. Liquid Web offers an Acronis backup solution where you can customize frequency, snapshots, and much more.

VPS hosting pricing depends on a number of factors, like the provider’s level of service and support, performance, bandwidth, and the features included. Overall, you can expect to pay more than you would for shared hosting but less than you would for dedicated.

Liquid Web’s VPS hosting is known for delivering the fastest Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack performance. Third-party performance analyst firm Cloud Spectator found that our VPS speed is faster than Rackspace, DigitalOcean, and Amazon. Here are a few things we do to ensure your hosting stays blazing fast:

High-performance hardware

Liquid Web VPS is built on our industry-famous servers, equipped with premium-quality disks and SSD drives.

KVM virtualization

We use KVM to create your private virtual environment, and make it accessible through our Cloud Studio interface.

Redundant infrastructure

Our data centers are prepped and ready to handle heavy workloads with N+2 redundancies and much more.

Uptime guarantee

We guarantee 100% uptime on our elite network, and we also guarantee that power is up 24/7/365.

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