Guide

Web hosting vs VPS vs VDS

Which one your website or app needs, and what each costs in India.

Web hosting

Your website shares a server with other sites, and the hosting company runs the server for you. You manage your site, files and databases in cPanel.

  • Suits business websites, blogs, WordPress and online stores.
  • HostUpIndia Web & cPanel Hosting: LiteSpeed, free SSL and 7-day backups, from ₹49 a month.
  • HostUpIndia WordPress Hosting: WordPress pre-installed, from ₹99 a month.

KVM VPS

A virtual private server, or cloud server: your own operating system on shared, burstable CPU cores, with root access and kernel control.

  • Suits web apps, APIs, microservices and staging.
  • 4 to 32 GB of memory, NVMe storage, a 10 Gbps network and a browser console.
  • Linux or Windows Server, billed by the hour. HostUpIndia KVM VPS from ₹581 per 30 days.

VDS

A virtual dedicated server: like a VPS, but every core is pinned to you, so there is no throttling, even at 100% load.

  • Suits databases and heavy compute.
  • 4 to 128 GB of memory, 10 Gbps SR-IOV networking, a console and a rescue kernel.
  • HostUpIndia VDS from ₹1,241 per 30 days.

Dedicated server

A whole physical machine for you alone, with no hypervisor.

  • Suits enterprise workloads that need all of a server.
  • 8 to 64 Intel Xeon cores, 32 to 256 GB of memory and IPMI.
  • HostUpIndia dedicated servers from ₹11,249 a month.

Which should you choose?

  • A website or blog, with no server to manage: web hosting.
  • WordPress or WooCommerce: WordPress hosting.
  • An app, an API or full control of the server: a KVM VPS.
  • Steady heavy load, such as a database: a VDS.
  • A whole machine: a dedicated server.

Start small, move up later

Begin with web hosting and move to a VPS, VDS or dedicated server with HostUpIndia when you need more. Prices exclude 18% GST. See every price.