We’re at all times seeking to enhance the merchandise we are able to provide our prospects, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ve simply launched our model new digital personal server (VPS) vary.
Our new vary provides you elevated connection velocity, extra space for storing, quick NVMe drives, extra working system decisions, and extra decisions for location — in addition to a cheaper price! Our servers now begin at simply £7.99 per 30 days, excluding VAT.
We additionally now plant timber for every server bought, as much as 4 timber every month, and also you’ll get our month-to-month e-mail about what number of timber you’ve helped us plant in addition to a hyperlink to that month’s sustainability report.
What’s a digital personal server?
A VPS is a partition on a bigger devoted server, supplying you with personal area on that server with lots of the similar advantages, similar to root entry, however with out the price of a devoted server. On every devoted server’s laborious drive, there are sections portioned out for every VPS, and no different VPS consumer on that server can entry your server.
Why would I need a VPS?
Having your individual server is an effective way to take full management of your internet hosting — you’ll be able to arrange your individual software program, programming languages, databases, and extra, with out hitting any restrictions which may include a shared internet hosting bundle. Your web site received’t be affected by different individuals’s web sites both.
You too can do extra with a server. Use it as file storage on your residence community, run video games on it, accumulate and organise knowledge, actually the selection is yours. You might have full management over your server, and so long as it’s authorized, we received’t intrude.
We must always say, although, {that a} VPS isn’t for everyone. You do get extra assets and extra management, however you even have way more duty. Together with your server, you’re answerable for the working system, software program, and safety, and answerable for ensuring all the pieces stays up to date and dealing appropriately. Should you’re unsure what you’re doing, you may trigger issues together with your knowledge, with the safety of your server, or together with your server’s connectivity.
Should you wouldn’t really feel comfy with that a lot duty, or don’t have the time for the sharp studying curve that comes with proudly owning a server, you is perhaps higher off with one in every of our Internet Internet hosting or Managed WordPress packages.
What do our digital personal servers include?
All our VPS have NVMe drives for storage, making them extremely quick — a lot quicker than commonplace SSDs or SATA drives. And every host server has native {hardware} RAID, which means that there are a number of laborious drives together with your knowledge, and when one goes, the others are there to maintain all the pieces working whereas we swap out the failed drive and re-sync it with the remainder.
We even have quick connection speeds — from 250 Mbps as much as 1 Gbps — and there aren’t any bandwidth caps or costs. And in case your server isn’t accessible to the surface world, you’ll be able to nonetheless connect with it by way of out-of-band console entry by way of your management panel.
You might have the choice of selecting your working system as effectively. At the moment, we provide CentOS7, CentOS8, and Ubuntu 20, with the potential for including extra down the road. And for those who want a management panel pre-installed, we’ve licences for cPanel/WHM out there.
What’s cPanel/WHM, and what does it imply to have a licence on my VPS?
cPanel and WHM are two management panels that work collectively to offer a full webhosting platform. With WHM, you’ll be able to run your server, together with safety, networking, and creating accounts, and with cPanel, you’ll be able to arrange web sites for these accounts, full with mailboxes, software program, databases, and extra.
cPanel and WHM are a handy technique to flip your VPS into an online server, and we provide licences for cPanel/WHM as 5-site, 30-site or 100-site. With these licences, you’ll be able to solely host as much as that variety of web sites, and any extra would require you to buy a brand new licence.
The place can I’ve my server?
With our new servers, we’re additionally pleased to announce that we now have new areas for our servers. While you order a server, you’ll be able to have it within the following cities:
- London, UK (our fundamental knowledge centre for our VPS vary)
- Sydney, Australia
- Singapore
- Warsaw, Poland
Can you progress me from my current VPS onto a brand new server?
Should you’re on one in every of our earlier digital personal servers or hosted with one other firm, you’d be answerable for migrating your knowledge onto your new server. Nonetheless, for those who’re utilizing cPanel, and wish to hold utilizing cPanel in your new server, the cPanel Migration device is a simple technique to shift all the pieces over.
What if I would like one thing else from my server?
Should you’re searching for one thing completely different in a digital personal server, please get in contact with our Gross sales group. We will look into your choices and see if we are able to’t discover a server that may give you the results you want.
We hope you want our new server vary!