Virtual Private Server Hosting

Our VPS solutions give you the features and functionality of a dedicated server without the cost of building and maintaining one. Virtualization is the future of hosting and eliminates the restrictions of shared web hosting, and the expense and upkeep of dedicated servers.

Our Virtual Private Servers service utilise the Jails technology that is built into FreeBSD. The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualisation that allows administrators to partition a server into multiple independent mini-systems called jails.

• Full root access
• Your own static IP address(es)
• No limit on the number of domains that can be hosted
• Freedom to install any software and configure the system to suit your needs

We offer VPS solutions based on the FreeBSD Jails system because it consumes far less server resources than other virtualisation systems such as VMWare and Xen. FreeBSD Jails allow us to offer fast, fully featured, secure VPS's at low prices.

Support

Here at Absolute Hosting we realise that support is a key ingrediant in providing the best service. Our aim is to provide that support as quickly and clearly as possible. Email support is provided 7 days a week. After business hours an engineer monitors support tickets. VPS solutions are not managed by Absolute Hosting. VPS owners manages their own VPS unless they enter into a management agreement with Absolute Hosting. A d-hoc management services are available on request. They are billed at Absolute Hosting's standard hourly rate. See our terms and conditions.

Pre-Setup VPS - Web Hosting Resellers

Our Pre-Setup VPS solutions come setup as a fully functional web hosting platform. Forget about spending countless hours setting up and configuring. Simply order and then focus on running your business.

• Apache2 Web server ( http )
• Postfix, Dovecot (POP3, POP3S, IMAP and IMAPS)
• Bind9 DNS server ( DNS ) locally plus two extra nameservers
• Php 5, Perl, Python, CGI
• Mysql5 and SQLite3 ( Databases )
• 6ProFTP ( FTP )
• Syscp control panel

Barebone VPS - Developers and Internet Geeks

Our barebone VPS solutions are aimed at administrators / engineers / developers that know exactly what they are doing. Our barebone VPS solutions come with only a minium of packages installed. You are supplied with the Root password and it is up to you to install and configure all services that are need. Most users opt to use the FreeBSD ports system as this gives you access to over nineteen thousand packages they can compile and install ( not all are applicable for use on a server).

Barebone VPS solutions are suitible for:

• Development platform
• Testbed
• Training
• DNS
• E-mail
• Web hosting
• CVS tree or Subversion version control
• Redundant hotsite
• Online file backup
• Web application server
• Remote network monitor
• Blog and social media hosting