A virtual private server gives you a dedicated slice of a physical server: your own operating system, your own resources and full administrative access, without the cost of buying and housing hardware yourself. You decide what runs on it, and you are not sharing an operating system with anyone else.
Where your server runs
Your server runs on infrastructure we manage and support, with its resources reserved for you rather than shared with other tenants. If you have a requirement about where your data is held, tell us and we will confirm what we can do.
Linux or Windows
We provide virtual servers on both Linux and Windows, so the choice is driven by what you actually need to run rather than by what we happen to support.
What businesses use a VPS for
- Running an application that outgrew shared hosting, or that needs software you cannot install on it
- Hosting a database, or a line-of-business application your team relies on
- A development, testing or staging environment kept separate from live systems
- A server you want managed and monitored rather than one more system for your team to maintain
Managed, if you want it managed
A virtual server still needs patching, monitoring and backing up. We can hand you the keys and leave you to it, or manage the server as part of your support arrangement. Most clients want somewhere between the two, so it is worth a conversation rather than a package.
Related services
Web hosting · Data Centre and Co-Location
Specifications and pricing
Resources are sized around the workload rather than sold in fixed tiers, so the right specification depends on what you intend to run. Tell us what you need and we will come back with a specification and a price.