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Home > Web Hosting > WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS) Technology

You can get the benefits of a Virtual Private Server with the same ease-of-use and low cost traditionally found only with shared web hosting. Starting as low as $3.95 a month, take a look at WestHost's VPS Web Hosting Plans and see for yourself.

Traditional Shared Hosting     WestHost VPS Hosting   Server Server Resources Hosting Account - Shared Applications - Limited Control - Shared Environment - Shared Web Server - Shared Mail Server - Shared Database Server - Shared FTP Server     - Install your own applications - Administrative Control   (root-like, no root access) - Independent Secure   Environment - Dedicated Web Server - Dedicated Mail Server - Dedicated Database Server - Dedicated FTP Server

Most Web Hosting companies offer "virtual" or "shared" hosting. This means you literally share your resources, applications and environment with potentially hundreds of other users in the same directory. This configuration can allow any compromises to a single site to affect the performance and security of everyone else on the same server.

With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) Technology, also known as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS Hosting) technology, a web server is divided into multiple isolated environments. Each environment has its own server software providing independence for that website. Any compromise to a site would only affect that WestHost VPS and could not affect any other site on the same server. As with a dedicated server, each WestHost VPS has its own independent web server, mail server and independent software instances. A crashed application (Apache, Sendmail, MySQL etc.) in another client's WestHost VPS has no effect on your WestHost VPS.

What may be even more appealing is that with WestHost VPS web hosting, you have nearly full control over the most common areas of a website/server. This includes:

• Full control of the web server configuration (Apache), including PHP, mod_perl, and other server-side technologies and modules.
• Full control of the e-mail server (Sendmail) configuration.
• Full control of MySQL configuration.
• Full control of most Perl modules.

You also have access to other miscellaneous configuration files within your account and a greater ability to install and run custom software (should you choose to). While a WestHost VPS cannot be considered the same as a root access VPS, there are many advantages to our platform over traditional shared web hosting.