You will be shocked with the knowledge of the fact that the VPS hosting is used for the development of the Facebook applications. As a Facebook user you will know that the Facebook applications are very popular and they are the most used apps on the web. Today, a huge internet savvy user population is a part of Facebook and it has a market with more than 500 million users around the world. Since, it is absolutely free to develop and launch the Facebook applications the developers may need their own hosting. To such developers vps hosting is the best option as it has many advantages over the dedicated hosting.
It is easy to install and configure several programs at once with the help of the root access.
With the Apache Virtual Hosts, you can easily host unlimited websites.
You can also use the server for backup, file storage, and any other task.
It is also easy and simple to host other services like a mail server, FTP server, etc.