[gkbrk]

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server, essentially another word for a VM you can buy from hosting / cloud companies.

[ants_everywhere]

Thanks, I'm familiar with that usage but I had only ever heard it used in the context of web hosting companies and colos.

Basically a small VM on a crowded server for tasks like running a Wordpress site. So I was confused about why that was emphasized.

But it looks like it's expanded to cover things like GCP and EC2 which makes more sense.