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The topic of VPS offerings, or Virtual Private Servers, is not a new one, at least not to any seasoned web guru. For those new to the web industry, the realization that a shared hosting plan may not be the end-all for web hosting often comes as a harsh dose of reality after a quick burst of growth. The scaling from a shared hosting plan, to a virtual private server (vps), sometimes followed by a physically dedicated server (dedicated hosting) depending on the site’s traffic and server load, is generally unknown to a beginner webmaster.

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What is Web Hosting
As peculiar as it may seem to most techies, many people don’t understand what web hosting is. Basically, web hosting is what allows the world to see your website. You can design, code, and place a website on your harddrive where nobody sees it.. or you can spend a few bucks a month and host it on a type of computer known as a Web Server. This allows you to share your masterpiece with the public. A web server sends out, or serves, the files (html/php pages, images, etc.) to the visitors web browser (FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.). (more…)