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If you're on traditional hosting, then a VPS provides a decent amount of benefits. One of the many being increased resources and power for your applications. A VPS gives you control over your webhosting environment that allows you to make the configurations and adjustments necessary for your website application. Such control allows you more options in server applications compared to traditional hosting.

If you're looking to develop an application or you require specific PHP modules that aren't available, then a virtual private server is definitely something that's going to provide you that advantage.

KnownHost provides support for many different various system services on a VPS. For instance, we support either panel cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin. We provide adjustments and modifications to Apache, PHP and MYSQL based configurations as needed by the customer in either performance and/or optimization requests. We ensure that the server is up to date, having the latest security fixes and latest critical updates.

For full details, see our Support Coverage page.

Your server is usually ready within minutes of ordering. Once active, your server environment is automatically configured and installed based on your chosen options.

Yes. A managed VPS gives you full root access and complete control, so you can install software, configure settings, and run your server the way you want while we handle the system-level tasks.

In the majority of cases what you want is a managed virtual private server package that will give you the power and flexibility, but at a lower cost. For small business owners, bloggers, web designers and everyone that needs to have a fast website, a VPS is the perfect solution.

All of our VPS plans run on NVMe storage, which is significantly faster than traditional SSDs. This is especially beneficial for websites that rely heavily on caching and database queries, such as WordPress and WooCommerce sites.

Beyond VPS, our hosting services also include shared hosting, cloud servers, and dedicated servers.

If you are serious about your website or online business then you should consider upgrading from your shared hosting to a managed platform on our VPS, Cloud or Dedicated Server packages, depending on your needs and budget.

Absolutely. Should you require a migration between KnownHost managed services or from another company over to KnownHost managed services we can handle that for you. We will put you in touch with one of our Migration Specialists who will ask a series of questions in order to evaluate the service you're migrating from. We do this to ensure we provide a consistent and thorough review of all server related aspects required for a migration.

We're here for you, ready to handle the migration process for you.

Upgrades on our Managed VPS platforms are seamless and involve no downtime. Whether it's an upgrade or downgrade, we can adjust your servers package without disruption to your system services. These upgrades can be performed either through the 'My KnownHost' portal or contacting our Billing Department.

It's recommended to contact our Billing Department as this allows us to provide any necessary guidance prior to performing a package upgrade, we're here to help!

Managed VPS plans run AlmaLinux 8 or AlmaLinux 9, which are fully supported by cPanel, Plesk, and DirectAdmin. Unmanaged VPS plans give you more choice, including AlmaLinux 8 and 9, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS, and Debian 12 and 13.

Our VPS plans run Linux, the most widely used operating system for web hosting. We don't currently offer Windows VPS hosting.