https://www.linuxhosted.com/series/guides/Recent content in Guides on LinuxHosted.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenLinuxHosted.comWed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/shared-vs-vps-hosting/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/shared-vs-vps-hosting/ <p>Both shared hosting and VPS hosting will run your website. The real question is what you share with strangers and what you own outright. On shared hosting, you're one tenant among hundreds on the same physical server. On a VPS, you have a walled-off slice with resources that are yours regardless of what anyone else is doing. That distinction sounds simple, but it has downstream consequences for performance, security, and what you're actually able to deploy.</p>https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/what-is-vps-hosting/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.linuxhosted.com/post/what-is-vps-hosting/ <p>A VPS — Virtual Private Server — is a slice of a physical server with guaranteed, isolated resources. Unlike shared hosting, where every account on the machine competes for the same pool of RAM and CPU, a VPS gives you a fixed allocation that nobody else can touch. You get root access to your own Linux environment and can configure it exactly like a dedicated server, while the underlying hardware is still shared among a handful of other VPS instances. For most workloads, that distinction is invisible in practice: your server behaves as if it is yours alone.</p>