05 Oct 09 UK VPS

I’m going to be starting a UK VPS provider in the next few weeks. I’ve had a few requests for UK VPS hosting lately. We’re going to be using the XEN technology, and hosting out of UKSOLUTIONS and RAPIDSWITCH, both of which are excellent UK Colo Providers. Simple signup and payment process, fast activation and an entirely unmanaged/automated service is what I’m ultimately aiming for. I’m hoping for positive benchmark results and guaranteeing no overselling. Unlike a lot of hosts, I’m also shooting for good fast access, rather than an ‘unlimited bandwidth’ plan, that you can never use more than 1TB/month on due to the slow speeds.

Ultimately, I’ll be moving for automatic payment/provisioning, and allowing the user to change plan at any time, without any manual intervention from an admin side. A  VPS/OpenVPN service is also not out of the question. Currently, we’ve got the support resources to attend to these things quickly enough, but instant is always better than quick!

Any requests, comments or ideas greatfully received on what promises to be a great UK VPS host!

Tags: Hosting, openvpn, uk vps, vps

Reader's Comments

1. the_angry_angel | 05 Oct 2009 9:48 am

   Whilst I recognise that from time to time providers have downtime, RS recently had an extended downtime that I felt was pretty badly managed.

   You can see the fall out here – http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=892483

   Although I’m unsure if it affected their colo facilities as well as their dedi.

2. Adam | 05 Oct 2009 1:47 pm

   Up until this, I’ve never heard anything bad about RS. UKSolutions are expensive, but I’ve hosted servers with them for about 6+ years now and never had a single second of downtime, I mean that literally. Some of the sites I host there hit 20-30k uniques per day and we’d know a server was down, even for a few seconds. I’m going to check in to this in much more detail. Really appreciate the heads up.

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