Managed Virtual Private Server / Virtual Machine Hosting

Virtualisation is a technology which benefits most enterprise hosting requirements. This essentially allows a single server do the job of multiple servers, by sharing its resources across multiple environments. It is secure, scalable and highly-available. Read more about our managed hosting virtual infrastructure.

Enterprise Managed Virtual Private Servers (powered by VMware)

Features:

• Virtualisation type: Full machine virtualisation^**
• Supported operating system(s): Windows, Linux
• Basic Managed Virtual Server
  • 1G RAM
  • 20G storage
  • Standard inclusions (see below)
  • Cost^*:
    • $275 once-off setup fee.
    • $385 on-going per month.
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• Standard Managed Virtual Server
  • 2G RAM
  • 30G storage
  • Standard inclusions (see below)
  • Cost^*:
    • $275 once-off setup fee.
    • $495 on-going per month.
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• Heavy-duty Managed Virtual Server
  • 4G RAM
  • 50G storage
  • Standard inclusions (see below)
  • Cost^*:
    • $275 once-off setup fee.
    • $660 on-going per month.
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^* Based on a minimum 12 months contract.

^**VPS Virtualisation

Context-based virtualisation provides virtualisation for GNU/Linux systems. This is accomplished by kernel level isolation, which allows to run multiple virtual units at once. Those units are sufficiently isolated to guarantee the required security, but utilise available resources efficiently, as they run on the same kernel. This particular virtual server model is implemented through a combination of "security contexts", segmented routing, chroot, extended quotas and some other standard tools.

Full machine virtualisation consists of full virtualisation of CPU, motherboard, memory and CPU resources with dynamic recompilation of CPU instructions for optimisation of applications running within the VPS environment. Most virtualisation environments offer emulation of the host for guest operating systems. Dynamic recompilation offers an improvement on this approach: it dynamically compiles blocks of machine instructions the first time they are executed, and later uses the translated code directly when the code runs a second time, resulting in improved performance for applications hosted on the Virtual Private Server.