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Managed VPS’s mean you do less server set up and admin. If you’re an advanced user check out the services that managed VPS’s provide and see if you can/want to do those. If yes then search for ‘Managed VPS – no’.

INITIAL COST:

Hosting plans often offer the initial term (eg 36 months) at a lower rate.

Use the same ‘renewal’ rate as the ‘initial cost’ filters to see plans which keep the same cost for both initial terms and renewal terms. This represents a ‘good deal’ if the rates are low enough because they don’t differ from initial to renewal.

RENEWAL COST:

Hosting plans often ‘renew’ the initial term (eg 36 months) at a higher rate.

Use the same ‘renewal’ rate as the ‘initial cost’ filters to see plans which keep the same cost for both initial terms and renewal terms. This represents a ‘good deal’ over time.

Bandwidth is a measure of how much data at any one time your server can handle and is often used to gauge how many users can be on the site when the page size is also taken into consideration.

The type and quantity of CPU used by this plan

The amount of RAM used by this VPS Plan. ram is a measure of the VPS to handle multiple tasks.

Select ‘Yes’ if you want a VPS with the option of having a dedicated IP address.

A server is a computer and you can think of ‘Admin Software’ like an operating system (eg windows or OSX) but made specifically for navigating and managing a server computer. There are different types of server admin software, most commonly cPanel, but you may have another preference like Plesk of DirectAdmin.

“transfer” is the amount of data you are able to push in a given period (usually, the meter is reset every month). This is slightly different to “bandwidth” is the port speed (internet speed of the server)

WHM allows the most cPanel licenses which is useful in the case you are a reseller of hosting for your own web or hosting clients as each of them may want a cPanel also. This only applies to cPanel and not Plesk or DirectAdmin.