Hosting
Glossary
A comprehensive guide to web hosting, VPS, and gaming terminology. Understand the tech behind your infrastructure.
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)
A cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
A virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor. KVM provides full hardware virtualization, giving each VPS its own kernel and isolated resources.
NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express)
A logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer's non-volatile storage media usually attached via PCIe bus. NVMe is significantly faster than traditional SSDs.
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
A commitment between a service provider and a client. Particular aspects of the service – quality, availability, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user.
VPS (Virtual Private Server)
A virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.