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Virtual Private Servers, What are they?

MKComputing has just started offering Virtual Private Servers, but what are they? Well, the best way to explain it is a Operating System contained in a virtualised space. These isolated machines provides more security as your whole machine is isolated.

The question is, whatโ€™s the different between Shared Hosting and a VPS. Well, Shared Hosting only provides Static Website Hosting so you would only be able to upload .HTML or .PHP files but a VPS provides Root Level access to your Hosting, while letting you host Node Servers, Databases or just simply anything that runs on Linux can be hosted on your VPS.

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