VPS (Xen PV) Plans
Virtual Private Servers

Each VPS is based on a direct allocation of real, physical hardware; and is fully isolated from all other VPS on the host machine. Xen "Paravirtualization" technology allows near-native performance, and you can compile and load your own kernel modules. The kernel itself however, is shared with the host machine.

New orders are setup within 5 minutes of payment, subject to automated fraud screening and availability. Every VPS has access so SolusVM for Reboots, Operating System Reloads and status checking.

Every VPS includes:

7 Day money back guarantee
99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee

Dedicated RAM
Swap
HDD
Bandwidth
Monthly Cost
Order
128MB
128MB
10GB
150GB
£5.00 GBP
256MB
256MB
15GB
250GB
£9.00 GBP
384MB
384MB
20GB
350GB
£13.00 GBP
512MB
512MB
30GB
450GB
£16.00 GBP
768MB
768MB
40GB
550GB
£24.00 GBP
1024MB
1024MB
60GB
650GB
£30.00 GBP
1536MB
1536MB
100GB
1000GB
£45.00 GBP
2048MB
2048MB
130GB
1500GB
£55.00 GBP
3072MB
3072MB
200GB
2000GB
£80.00 GBP
4096MB
4096MB
260GB
2500GB
£105.00 GBP
5120MB
5120MB
320GB
3000GB
£130.00 GBP
6144MB
6144MB
380GB
3500GB
£155.00 GBP
8192MB
8192MB
540GB
4000GB
£200.00 GBP

 

Operating Systems   "Out of the Box" OS Templates
We offer the following clean, minimal operating system templates.

CentOS 4.x, 5.x
Debian 4.0, 5.0
Fedora 8, 9, 10, 11
Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04
Gentoo 2008
Slackware 12.1


Commercial Control Panels

cPanel/WHM
£12.00/Month
£15.00/Month with Fantastico
DirectAdmin
£5.00/Month




In addition to minimal operating system templates, we also offer templates with preinstalled, "Out of the Box" configurations.

CentOS 5 - Linux Desktop
Login to your VPS via SSH, follow the instructions, select GNOME or KDE desktop environments, and connect up with your favourite VNC client in less than 30 seconds!

CentOS 5 - Nagios
A basic default installation of the popular Nagios monitoring software, complete with Nagios Plugins, NRPE, NSCA and NDOUTILS.

CentOS 5 - Cacti
A basic default installation of the popular RRDtool based graphing solution, Cacti!

CentOS 5 - Webmin
A clean installation of CentOS 5 with a typical LAMP stack comprising of Apache, MySQL, PHP and common PHP modules. Webmin is pre-installed for easy remote management of your VPS.

CentOS 5 - DNS Only
"DNS Only" is a free platform provided by cPanel, to create redundant DNS clusters. This is very useful if you own a cPanel server and want a reliable redundant DNS configuration.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

1) Do you provide custom reverse dns records?
Yes. You can set custom PTR records at any time from within our SolusVM control panel.

2) What support is included with my VPS?
We provide support for hardware issues, network issues and anything relating to the host machine. As an unmanaged provider, this means the rest is down to you. In return you get a professional, rock solid platform, with enterprise-class hardware at unbeatable prices.

If you would like a Managed VPS where we take care of managing your server or fixing it when things break, please contact us for a custom quote.

3) Do you allow IRC/Bittorrent/Warez Linking?
We do not allow IRC, Bittorrents or Warez Linking. IRC ports are filtered out on all of our host machines, and any user found to be using their VPS for IRC, Bittorrents, Warez Linking or any other illegal activity will be terminated.

4) How is CPU allocated?

Part One: Cores
Our Xen host machines may have 4, 8 or 16 CPU cores, and one or two of these cores is completely dedicated for processes on the host machine. The remaining cores are allocated to VCPUs or "Virtual CPUs" which are then allocated to Virtual Servers. Each Virtual Server has 4 VCPUs, and you will therefore see 4 CPU's inside your Virtual Server. This method of allocating CPU cores has a number of distinct advantages over a typical default Xen setup. The main advantage being that the host machine is completely unaffected from the CPU activity of Virtual Machines, so if a VM decides to max out it's CPU the host machine would still schedule resources without any interruption to other VM's.

Part Two: CPU Time Prioritization (What's this equal share nonsense?)
The majority of VPS providers out there give little information on how they manage CPU time and you will often see the term "Equal Share". Xen uses a credit based round-robin scheduling system for CPU time, where each VM has a certain number of credits. In an equal share setup all VMs have the same number of credits, so a small VM with say 128MB RAM has the same priority to CPU as a 4GB RAM VM. This isn't good. If they allocate larger VMs more VCPUs but don't change the number of credits, then you have higher burstable CPU power but no more CPU time than anyone else!

At xenSmart we issue CPU credits to VM's based on their size, and it's proportional with each plan. Infact, it effectivley doubles. A 256MB RAM VM has twice as much priority to CPU as a 128MB VM. That seems like a more logical approach.

5) Do I get Burst RAM?
Each Xen VPS has Dedicated RAM and Swap, just like a dedicted server. We do not provide burstable memory. While the concept of burstable memory is good, it often causes instability as it's only available temporarily, and some applications will try to permanently use Burstable memory, which just causes problems.

We accept payments via PayPal, Google Checkout and Credit/Debit cards.

Please ensure you read our "Terms of Service" in full before purchasing. If you have any questions about our services, would like a custom solution, or would like to resell our services, please don't hesitate to Contact Us.