Over the last few years I have been hooked on Hostgator web hosting. Don’t get me wrong, I still like them a lot. But also too, I like to try new things. Prior to joining with Hostgator I was really into VPS web hosting. At the time, VPS hosting was expensive. Over the last few years prices have dropped quite a bit and quality has gone up.

VPS web hosting gives users more control over the server compared to shared web hosting. With most VPS web hosting accounts users are granted root access. VPS web hosting isn’t a simple user friendly type of web hosting. It’s much different than cPanel shared web hosting. With VPS hosting you’re literally given a blank web server to do what you want with it.

In my opinion, the best, most affordable and highly dependable VPS web hosting is offered by Linode.com. If you’re interesting in setting up a VPS web server, I strongly recommend checking them out. Not only is their hosting services amazing, but their documentation is absolutely astonishing. In fact, that’s how I found Linode. About a year ago, I was fooling around with configuring and setting up my own web server out of my home office and ran across their tutorial on how to setup a LAMP server on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Shared cPanel web hosting has an average cost of about $9.95 / month. Linode starts at $19.95 / month. For just ten dollars more a month, you can upgrade from shared web hosting to virtually managing your own remotely hosted web server. I strongly recommending checking it out. You won’t be sorry. Also if you need help setting up your Linode server drop me a line and I’ll find time to assist you.