What’s the difference between managed and unmanaged VPS hosting and which is best for me?

Not at SoftonHost. Our managed VPS hosting solution means customers don’t need to worry about the more technical aspects, like server management, as we do these on your behalf. As for the day-to-day management of your website and hosting, we provide industry-leading control panels like cPanel and Plesk Onyx, together with useful tools, like our one-click installer and WordPress Toolkit, that make managing your hosting a breeze.

We provide an advanced backups solution to give you complete peace of mind. This provides managed backups that give total control over the backup frequency, retention length and encryption level.

A VPS is a virtual private server. It is created by using virtualisation software that establishes a number of independent virtual servers on a single physical server. While this gives it similarities to shared hosting, VPS are, actually, far more like mini dedicated servers.

VPS hosting, therefore, is a hosting solution in which customers have their own virtual private server, independent operating system and allocated resources. You have the freedom to choose your own operating system and run the apps you want, while having all the resources you need (CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth) to run them – far more resources than with a shared hosting account.

This makes VPS the perfect solution for those who have outgrown shared hosting but are not yet ready for a dedicated server. They are also significantly less expensive than a dedicated server.