I've just recently got into the web hosting business and I was wondering what the heck a VPS was..I think I have a pretty good idea though. Are they a server that has the hard drive partitioned so that different OSs can be installed on the same one and then that partition is leased out to the user?

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=VPS+%2B+hosting&ei=UTF-8&vm=i&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt

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So..that didn't answer my question..it just gives URLs to other hosts that provide VPSs.

A VPS is a bit of software that cuts a physical machine up into lots of smaller machines. This is differenet to normal webhosting as that people who can login on the VDS have full adminstrative/root access so they can do anything they want to their "machine"

HTH

Rgds

Rus

So basically I was right. :D

Yeah. Its just realising that the people in each slice have total and utter control. They can delete everything on their slice if they want :)

Rus