Upgrading to a virtual private server (VPS for short) will drastically improve your site performance if you’re currently on a shared hosting plan. For those of you who are starting a new site from scratch and expecting tons of traffic from the beginning, getting a VPS hosting plan out of the gate is a viable option as well.
When you choose Linux VPS hosting, your virtual servers will support web features like PHP, MySQL, and POP3. Since Linux is an open-source OS, these hosting plans are usually more cost-effective. Open-source systems allow code to be modified and redistributed without restriction. Linux users often rely on cPanel to manage web development tasks. Although providers may include cPanel, it is a third-party application.
