What is a VPS?
A Virtual Private Server (VPS) performs and behaves just like a stand-alone server. It can be accessed remotely in just the same way, applications can be installed on it, it has it's own IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications.
- Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server
- It has its own IP addresses, port numbers, tables, filtering and routing rules.
- It has its own configuration files for system and application software.
- It uses its own versions of system libraries or modify existing ones.
- You can add, modify or delete any file, including files in the root.>
- You can install your own application software or customize the installation
- It can be clustered with other VPS to provide a redundant and resilient solution
A VPS has many advantages of a physical server however as - It can be rapidly backed up or migrated to other hardware nodes
- Dynamic resource management allows real-time changes of key system resources such as CPU, memory, network, disk and I/O.
- It reduces operating system management as patches and updates can be centrally managed by Hosting UK
- VPS can be provisioned in seconds
It is a truly green solution in today's ever energy hungry world, as many VPS can exist on a single powerful server reducing energy costs and otherwise underutilized hardware
It can be restored from backup or re provisioned to it's original state in minutes.
Things you can do with your VPS
Run a single dedicated high performance web site without the need to purchase an entire server or even multiple web sites
Become a Virtual ISP with your own dedicated resources on our high performance network. Using Plesk or CPanel on your VPS you are able to offer your customers a fully featured control panel. We can even help you get up and running with an automated billing and provisioning system*
Run a dedicated mail server as a primary server or even as a dedicated backup server to your existing mail infrastructure.
Programmers and Developers - run your own dedicated application development environment without incurring the costs of hardware purchase and deployment time. Reuse and re deploy as the need arises. Cut your development and testing time down by hours!
Run a dedicated database system
Create a resilient clustered server for high availability solutions
Use it for your in house IT environment for proof of concept and testing.
In fact the limit is purely your imagination and your choice of VPS !
A choice of operating systems
We offer a choice of operating systems including Ubuntu , Fedora, Debian, SUSE and CentOS.
Additionally, if you don't see the operating system you are looking for we may be able to produce a custom build - ask our engineers!
A choice of VPS
We have a choice of either Raw VPS - a VPS with no control panel installed and full root access for whatever purpose you need or a VPS with either Plesk or Cpanel installed giving you an additional web based portal to manage all of your web hosting tasks.
Want to get started?
Either visit the links below or call us on 01745 586070 or e-mail sales@hostinguk.net for more information.
Further information
If there is any information you can't find on our web site or that we have not included here please ask by either calling 0870 003044 or 01745 586070 or submit a query