What is VPS Hosting? | Presented by GoDaddy

To appear on the Internet, a website's files and data must reside on a hosting server. There are several types of hosting technologies, including VPS. Learn what VPS hosting is and how it compares to shared hosting and dedicated hosting. For more about VPS hosting, visit https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/vps-hosting GoDaddy offers several types of website hosting. This video offers an explanation of VPS hosting and some tips for determining if it’s the right solution for you. VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. To make VPS hosting a little easier to understand, let’s take a quick look at two other kinds of hosting and compare them to VPS hosting. On one hand, there’s shared hosting. Your website files are housed on a server along with the files of other websites, and the server’s bandwidth and resources are shared among all the websites on that server. You have very little control over the server settings or operations. Think of it like renting a unit in an apartment complex w