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 …

Running WordPress on a VPS gives you headroom that shared hosting can't match: dedicated RAM, full root access, and the ability to tune your entire stack. With root access you can drop in Redis or Memcached for object caching, configure PHP-FPM pool sizes to match your traffic patterns, and run a reverse-proxy layer …

cPanel on a VPS gives you the management interface most web professionals already know — but cPanel licensing has become expensive since the 2019 pricing overhaul, so it matters significantly whether the host includes it or charges separately. For agencies managing client sites or teams migrating off shared hosting, …

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the most widely supported Linux distribution for VPS workloads — it ships with a 5.15 kernel, full hardware enablement stack options, and security patches guaranteed through April 2027 on the standard LTS cycle (and longer with ESM). Virtually every major VPS provider lists it, but "supports Ubuntu …