VPS or Virtual Private Server is also better known as Virtual Dedicated servers or Virtual Machine. They are now commonly used throughout to reduce cost and improve performance. It is a simple storage box with physical partitions which has different operating system installed in it. Each physical partition acts as a virtual server and is dedicated to individual or an organization. Each partition is known as virtual dedicated server and is independent from each other to an extent that each of the partition can be rebooted separately without affecting the working environment of other. Virtual private services are an extension to web services and nowadays it has been offered by many of the companies.

There are two types of virtual private hosting services. The primary one being managed host services and the other one is unmanaged host services. In an unmanaged environment, the customer has to manage, monitor and administer the server wherein in managed host services, a dedicated team looks after the server on behalf of their clients and provide 24/7 support. The space between the shared services and dedicated host services has been bridged by Virtual Private Servers. This allow independence to the customers in a cost effective way rather making them buy expensive dedicated servers which would not only block their money but even would require space and IT team to manage the same.

To get complete control over the VPS server, one should always choose unmanaged VPS service. However once should have good knowledge about the operating system on which VPS is working because any changes or up gradation is in the hand of the customer. On the other hand in case one doesn’t have the basic knowledge on VPS i.e. how to set it up or how to manage the same, then Managed VPS Service would be the best option because there are several tools which would help the user to work with ease. Secondly such kind of managed services are also provided by many VPS service providers at reasonable price. Managed VPS services has an upper edge over unmanaged VPS hosting services because of the flexibility of increasing space as per business requirement with an added cost. However one should understand that during peak hours, due to such system, the web traffic is on the higher end and which can make the site slow or inaccessible. However with new softwares, these issues have also been taken care off in last few years.