Differences Shared Hosting and virtual private server. The fundamental difference between Shared Hosting, Dedicated Virtual Private Server (VPS), and Colocation lies in how a computer server is used by a user.
Shared Hosting
Shared Hosting is a shared hosting service shared by other users. The users of this service use either software resources or hardware or IP Address together. Hosting like this is influenced by every process performed by the user, if there is a hosting user who excessive process and burden the server, then other users will be affected, such as the server becomes slow and even the possibility of the website becomes inaccessible.
Shared hosting is suitable for you who have blogs, web presence, online store. In terms of price of this type of hosting is cheaper when compared with other types of hosting, back to the package provided by the hosting provider.
Disadvantages of shared hosting, users can not freely use server resources, or use software in accordance with the needs because the full rights to the server administration is fully held by the admin.
Virtual Private Server
Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a software technology that allows the sharing of resources into multiple virtual machines (servers). Each virtual server will have an operating system running independently. VPS provides full access to the root user, each VPS has configurable configurations like on a dedicated server.
VPS is usually used on websites or applications that require a medium resource over shared hosting. If you have a website or app that requires a high enough resource with a low budget, you can use the VPS service.