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VPS

Virtual Private Server — a virtual machine on shared hardware that behaves like a standalone server with root access.

A VPS (Virtual Private Server) bundles fixed shares of CPU, RAM and SSD on a physical host into a self-contained virtual machine. Unlike shared hosting your VPS does not share a web-stack configuration with other customers — you get root SSH, free choice of operating system and can run arbitrary services. Typical features are monthly billing, per-second snapshots and backup hooks. For most web applications below a few thousand visitors per day a VPS is noticeably cheaper than a dedicated server while being significantly more performant than shared hosting.

Also known as

Virtual Private Server, vServer

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Updated: 16.05.2026