What applications to be run on VPS?

The last few years have seen the technology arena burgeoning with an increasing number of advancements. With the increasing acceptance of the web as a preferred medium for communication, socialising, shopping and business, owning a website has almost become a mandatory protocol for everyone, from green horn entrepreneurs to seasoned business professionals. In such a scenario, a cost-effective hosting service that helps manage all web entities is much desirable. Enter VPS hosting! Positioning itself right between shared servers and dedicated servers, a VPS or Virtual Private Server operates on the principle of virtualisation. It creates virtual machines on one physical server and distributes them among users with dedicated disk space, processing power and an OS of the user’s choice. This helps reduce hosting costs, while not compromising on either performance or security.

There are countless applications that can be run on a virtual private server. But still, some applications on VPS deserve a mention before the others:

· The shell

· Mounting support

· The Cron Scheduler – used to automatically

execute jobs based on fixed time intervals specified by user

· System Log Service – helps keep track of system operations and processes

· Perl Script and report language

· Open SSH support – for secure data communication, remote access to services and execution of commands

· Random generator service

· An array of libraries is pre-installed and ready for use

These applications form the core bulk of installation on the VPS. In addition to these, users can also install MySQL, Apache web server, GCC/CPP compilers, PHP and a whole lot of other application to suit their needs and purposes. Installing and maintaining these apps is easy via an easy-to-use and understand interface that comes bundled with each VPS service subscription. Access for installation is available via the VPS owner’s root or VPS host’s root.

VPS hosting is beneficial especially for companies or individuals wanting to steer clear of complete maintenance of their server, while still retaining root access to it. It helps reduce cost to a great extent due to its concept of shared physical space, while still being able to provide dedicated memory, processing power and bandwidth for optimum performance. A VPS is capable of hosting multiple domains, more than one dedicated IPs, private name servers along with the provision of a comprehensive admin interface.