VPS / Hosting

[Galaxay1]

What you mean by managed?

[Tomm]

If something goes wrong or you need help with something, your hosting company will do it for you.

Lets say your webserver broke and you were on a unmanaged package you would need to fix the problem yourself, however, if you were on a managed package you could get your hosting company to do it for you - free of charge.

What you mean by managed?

[Eric30]

Cheapest is self-managed.

One of my vps is self managed. I had to install everything (PHP, Apache, MySql, Firewall etc etc) And if something stops working I have to fix it my self.

You should really only get self managed if you know what your doing.

I have another VPS which is semi-managed, and what they do is, install/set up anything. If i get a problem they will fix it. and anything else i want, ive got to install.

And then fully managed, you basicaly pay them to so everything - Most expensive)