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Also known as VPS, VDS, virtual dedicated server

virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service

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A virtual private server (VPS) or virtual dedicated server (VDS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting company.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “virtual private server” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.