Archive for the ‘VPS’ Category

Introducing automated upgrades from web hosting to VPS and Hybrid Servers

Posted by: Alex
Date posted: 30/04/2013
Introducing automated upgrades from web hosting to VPS and Hybrid Servers

Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting customers can now upgrade to a VPS or Hybrid Server with just one click thanks to our brand new and easy to use feature. Web hosting customers can make the move to our VPS or Hybrid Server platform via the “Upgrade Web Hosting” wizard, and Reseller Pro customers can find [...]

New: VPS with SSDs now available!

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 07/03/2013
New: VPS with SSDs now available!

We’re happy to announce that you can now buy our virtual private servers with SSDs (solid-state drives)! Starting from just £16.99 per month, you can enjoy an even faster and more efficient VPS hosting experience with a super-powered, more environmentally-friendly solid-state disk drive. Just like our other virtual private servers, you can easily add/upgrade resources [...]

Happy Birthday VPS: A look back at the first year

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 09/11/2012
Happy Birthday VPS: A look back at the first year

They grow up so fast don’t they?! In the year since we launched we have written a wide range of posts on topics related to a myriad of themes associated with owning and selling VPS. VPS and dedicated server security This is a fantastic, practical post, with tips and best practice which will allow you [...]

Customer stories: working with VPS

Posted by: Alex
Date posted: 08/11/2012
Customer stories: working with VPS

For anybody that’s not entirely sure about what you can do with VPS or what the advantages are, as part of our happy birthday VPS celebrations we decided to take a look at two completely different websites to see how they have used the platform to help their sites perform. David Bushell (dbushell.com) is a [...]

An inside view of VPS – from the people who made it

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 07/11/2012
An inside view of VPS – from the people who made it

As part of the Happy Birthday VPS celebrations this week, we decided to give you an insider’s view of our virtual private server platform, including the biggest highlights and challenges in getting it set up. Like all our projects, our virtual private server platform was developed in-house by a small team of highly talented people, [...]

Happy Birthday VPS!

Posted by: Craig
Date posted: 05/11/2012
Happy Birthday VPS!

This week marks a landmark occasion – a year since we first launched the Heart Internet VPS platform! We’ll be celebrating throughout the week across the blog and social media, so drop us a tweet or a Facebook post and tell us about how you use your VPS, what you’ve named it, or why you [...]

Resellers: Essential tips for selling VPS

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 25/09/2012
Resellers: Essential tips for selling VPS

VPS (virtual private servers) are one of the most popular products here at Heart Internet. Since we launched them in November, we’ve been working on adding lots of new features and making tweaks to ensure the power and performance of the platform continue to grow in line with our high standards. If you haven’t yet [...]

VPS and Dedicated Server Security

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 16/07/2012
VPS and Dedicated Server Security

After my last post on our VPS platform, we had a question from one of our customers, Neil, about VPS and dedicated server security. So in this next article, I am going to talk about security, offer tips and discuss best practice which will allow you to secure your VPS or dedicated server (the principles [...]

VPS and qemu-kvm

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 10/07/2012
VPS and qemu-kvm

In this first article of a series of ‘more technical’ Heart Internet blog posts, I am going to talk a little bit about how our VPS platform is implemented, using the open source qemu-kvm virtualisation platform. What’s virtualisation? I think the best way to answer this is to compare it to emulation. What’s emulation? If [...]

New Operating Systems added to our VPS

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 03/07/2012
New Operating Systems added to our VPS

In addition to CentOS, Windows Server 2008 and Ubuntu, you can now choose to run your Heart Internet VPS using Debian 6 (Squeeze), OpenSUSE 11.4 or Fedora 17. Fedora 17 Fedora VPS Hosting offers the stability of RHEL with an easy to use GUI. 100% open source, Fedora has been built by a global community [...]