Whats the point of VPS hosting?

[shady l]

I mean ... what exactly is it and why is it more then regular hosting?

[Irv Lenzy]

a VPS is a virtual private server. It provides more resources than its little brother The plain old virtual server. I would explain in more detail, except there is a good article on wikipedia online:"A virtual private server (also referred to as virtual dedicated server or virtual server, and abbreviated VPS or VDS) is a method of partitioning one physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted."

en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server)