#Building a website # The difference between the virtual host and VPS

One of the basic conditions for building a website is to need a website space, that is, a virtual host and server. This article explains the difference between virtual host and server to novice friends.

Note: For the convenience of beginners, the following examples may not be very accurate. For accurate explanations, please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia.

Classification of common virtual hosts and servers

In terms of foreign trade websites, the most common categories of website space purchased from foreign IDC are: SHARED WEB HOSTING DEDICATED WEB HOSTING VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER (VPS) MANAGED WORDPRESS HOSTING

SHARED WEB HOSTING

The shared virtual host is the cheapest virtual host. Many websites share a server (a computer) and an IP address.

An example that you can easily understand is the software folder installed on disk D of your computer. Each software folder corresponds to a website, and all websites are on disk D.

The shared virtual host will share the resources of the server, such as CPU, hard disk, memory and broadband.

The advantages of a shared virtual host are its low price, its disadvantages are its poor performance (usually hundreds of websites are on a server), and its security is poor (just like a certain software you install contains a virus, the whole computer will be poisoned. After a website on your server is poisoned, your website may also be infected.)

DEDICATED WEB HOSTING

Don't be fooled by the word "exclusive". In fact, there is no difference between the exclusive virtual host and the shared virtual host, except that it assigns you an independent IP address (equivalent to creating a shortcut for you. The shared virtual host shares an IP address. If you want to find software, you must open Disk D and then open the software folder). There is no difference in the performance between the shared IP address and the exclusive IP address, Only exclusive IP is good for website SEO. Then normal businesses will control the number of servers with exclusive virtual hosts a little less, and then the performance will be better than that of shared virtual hosts.

VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER（VPS）

VPS is a popular site building space in recent years. If you have used a virtual machine on a computer, it is easy to understand the difference between it and a virtual host. A virtual host is a separate folder on a computer, and VPS is a separate space. Although there will be many VPS on the same server, you will not be poisoned by someone else's VPS.

At the same time, VPS's CPU, hard disk, memory and other resources are exclusive to you (some of the bandwidth is shared). In short, VPS has better performance and higher customizability, but the threshold for getting started is higher than virtual hosts.

domestic Alibaba Cloud ECS and Tencent Cloud The ECS CVM of is actually VPS.

MANAGED WORDPRESS HOSTING

The managed virtual host is a new form of virtual host, which is simply a virtual host launched separately for a certain website program.

Generally, various programs can be installed on the shared virtual host. You don't know which program has a vulnerability, which causes the server to be insecure.

The hosted WordPress host can only install WordPress, a website building program. If any version has vulnerabilities, it will remind you or help you update it in time, and will also do some performance optimization for WordPress. In short, the hosting virtual host is more fool like and its performance is more stable than other virtual hosts. You don't need to consider how to build WordPress, but you just need to focus on content, but it is essentially a virtual host.

More popular explanation

In the communication with the novice webmaster, I found that some people do not understand the difference between the virtual host and VPS, so I will give a more popular example.

Both the virtual host and VPS are called website servers, Here we compare virtual host to group rental housing, VPS compared to independent apartment 。

Compare website data to yourself 。

Different server service providers are compared to different landlords or professional rental companies.

Do you (website data) want to live in a group rental house (virtual host) or do you want to work as a separate apartment (VPS)?

Group rental housing (virtual host) is cheap, but everyone shares toilet (CPU), kitchen (memory), living room (network bandwidth)

VPS is more expensive, but it has its own bathroom (CPU), kitchen (memory), living room (network bandwidth)

Group rental (virtual host) Your basic hardware is all done for you by the landlord.

You can also decorate your own VPS and upgrade the hardware.

How to choose a virtual host and VPS?

This article introduces the differences between several virtual hosts and VPS. Then you may still want to know which space to choose to build a website. Here is my father's suggestion.

The novice practises and the budget is limited, so consider sharing the virtual host.

The enterprise builds a website but no one maintains the server, so consider hosting virtual host. For example: Foreign trade WordPress website hosting host SiteGround registration tutorial

VPS or independent server should be considered when an enterprise establishes a website and someone maintains the server. For example: Complete tutorial of building a foreign trade independent station by Vultr, a VPS server with multiple machine rooms abroad

Why give priority to VPS or independent servers? Because compared with the virtual host, VPS and independent servers have better performance, higher security, and better customization. The key is that the price is not more expensive than the hosting virtual host. In some cases, it may be cheaper.

If you are also interested in building websites, click here to view Basic Steps of Zero Infrastructure Website

What is the relationship between VPS and pagoda panel?

As a user who uses VPS for the first time, my father recommends you to use the pagoda panel. You should also know about the pagoda panel from other articles. What is the relationship between the pagoda panel and VPS? See below.

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