Server virtualisation is one of the hottest IT trends today. Most new users are adopting virtual private servers. However, there is still a big gap in the take-up rate between enterprise users and small or individual users. Small businesses are one of the fastest growing segments on the Internet and one of the most crucial to satisfy because of their unique needs, large size and diversity. Despite these challenges virtual servers have gone a long to satisfy those demands.

England, UK -- (SBWire) -- 12/21/2011 --Today there are many options available to choose from for website hosting. Users can choose from dedicated servers, shared servers, virtual private servers or cloud servers. However, of these, virtual servers are the most preferred option for website or individual blog hosting. VPS or virtual private server is the term used for the dedicated server that is partitioned into multiple small servers functioning as mini individual dedicated servers.

The age-old dedicated server and even shared servers have their own limitations: dedicated servers are too expensive while shared servers have limited resources and customization options. VPS hosting acts as a midway to both by providing the best of the web hosting services at truly affordable prices. Virtual hosting offers customizable resources like storage space, RAM and bandwidth with easily expandable features as your website traffic grows. It helps the web administrator to spend less on website hosting as it allows paying only for the portion of the resources actually used for hosting – no expensive overheads.

Another advantage of the virtual hosting server is that it is completely isolated from the other servers on the same system. It gives complete freedom to perform any kind of action including using any software or shutting down the small portion of server without affecting other websites.

This helps small business enterprises or individual website owners to host their websites without making any large investment on website servers and hardware resources. There are two kind of virtual private servers available in the market based on the operating system they use. These are Windows VPS and Linux VPS. Both types of VPS hosting are widely used by the website owners depending on the specific requirements they cater. Windows servers are more useful for the small enterprise having large traffic and running critical applications, but it is costlier to use. While Linux VPS servers are cheaper than their Windows counterparts and are more suitable for websites having low to medium traffic.

Thus a virtual private server is the best for the smaller businesses and individual users looking for root access of server at a cost much lower than dedicated servers but with more services than shared servers.

This news release is authored by the GigaTux, the leading Linux hosting and VPS hosting provider in the UK, USA and Germany. It offers multiple VPS hosting plans with best value for money, secured and reliable hosting.