Virtual Private Server Hosting or VPS hosting is one of the most popular types of Web Hosting Solutions. VPS hosting solutions are offered on Linux as well as Windows operating systems. VPS has secured a major role in the web hosting industry. Hence, it becomes important to know the types of VPS products to be used in a given service. Below is a brief description of control panels offered by different Web Hosting for VPS hosting.
VPS is an abbreviation of Virtual Private Server, it allows multiple Virtual Servers to run within a single physical server. Each VPS is allotted a specific portion of resources. So, regardless of what resources other VPS’s on the same server use, the amount of RAM and hard disk space allotted to a particular VPS will not get affected. One VPS on a server cannot use the data or even view other VPS’s data. Hence, each VPS has its own server load. It can be individually rebooted. It acts similar to a Dedicated server.
There are different types of control panels offered by Web Hosting firms for VPS.
Types Of VPS Control Panel
- Xen : 
This control panel is new as compared to the other control panels and is yet underdevelopment, yet it has become very popular and many Web Hosting companies have already adopted it with VPS. The basic reason for this popularity is its efficiency in limiting the amount of system resources that is used. Usually a VPS control panel use high resources when running on the server. But Xen has a different usage technique of resource management. The features of Xen and Virtuozzo are very similar except that it does not support Burstable RAM as of now.
Xen is yet underdevelopment so users might find some bugs.
- Virtuozzo : 
This is one of the most preferred and widely used control panel. Virtuozzo is developed by SwSoft. It allows users to handle their VPS very similar to a dedicated server. Virtuozzo allows users to use Burstable RAM. Burstable RAM is a technology which too is supported by SwSoft. When a users needs more RAM than the usually needed then there is an additional RAM used by users on the server, Burstable RAM allows that user to use more RAM for a limited period of time. This feature makes Virtuozzo pretty flexible and useful.
- Vmware : 
Vmware is one more leading control panel preferred in the Web Hosting industry. It allows users the exact opportunities as that of Virtuozzo except the Burstable RAM technology. But it supports technologies such as Multi-OS or Multi-based Operating System. With this, more than one Operating System’s can be provided to work on the same server. This helps in reducing the costs of the companies by not needing to buy another server for a different OS.
