Hello everyone! After a week, we are together with a new post again. Today's topic is Virtual Private Servers. First things first, as always, let's start with learning what a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is. A VPS is a Virtual Machine, hosted on the internet. It's like having your own computer which you can access remotely via the internet.
You can use a VPS for many things, such as hosting a (IRC, games, VoIP, web, email, etc.) server, using it to test software out without modifying your own computer, downloading & uploading, (if your internet is slow, you can download stuff on your VPS and use it instead) or just playing around on it.
A big advantage of using a VPS is that they're really cheap, and you can have plenty of them running different operating systems for full flexibility. That way, you'll be able to do everything you need without even touching your main computer. Virtual Private Server also come with disadvantages like anything else. They usually have really low resources since many Virtual Private Servers are being ran on one computer to reduce expenses. If you are looking for something with high resources, then I suggest you buy a dedicated server instead of a VPS. Although, buying a dedicated server will cost you a lot more than a VPS.
There's also a confusion between VPN and VPS which I would like to clear out. First of all, they aren't the same thing. A Virtual Private Server is a virtual machine, hosted on the internet like we've talked about before. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a tunnel. Basically, it's an IP address which you can use to connect to the internet instead of using your own. This way, you can use country-specific services which you can't use in your country by using a VPN.
That would be all about Virtual Private Servers, at least for now.
See you later in a different post!
You can use a VPS for many things, such as hosting a (IRC, games, VoIP, web, email, etc.) server, using it to test software out without modifying your own computer, downloading & uploading, (if your internet is slow, you can download stuff on your VPS and use it instead) or just playing around on it.
A big advantage of using a VPS is that they're really cheap, and you can have plenty of them running different operating systems for full flexibility. That way, you'll be able to do everything you need without even touching your main computer. Virtual Private Server also come with disadvantages like anything else. They usually have really low resources since many Virtual Private Servers are being ran on one computer to reduce expenses. If you are looking for something with high resources, then I suggest you buy a dedicated server instead of a VPS. Although, buying a dedicated server will cost you a lot more than a VPS.
There's also a confusion between VPN and VPS which I would like to clear out. First of all, they aren't the same thing. A Virtual Private Server is a virtual machine, hosted on the internet like we've talked about before. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a tunnel. Basically, it's an IP address which you can use to connect to the internet instead of using your own. This way, you can use country-specific services which you can't use in your country by using a VPN.
That would be all about Virtual Private Servers, at least for now.
See you later in a different post!
