UK VPS Server Hosting...

K@rl · 22 Mar 2010 at 10:59

I am currently using a company in Germany for my VPS hosting but I now require a presence in the UK. Does anybody have experience with UK VPS hosts such as 1&1 and WebFusion.

Paul91 · 22 Mar 2010 at 18:42

Linode offer a VPS within London. Sign up, login and then create the VPS in the data center located in London through the control panel. Unfortunately though, the prices are in American dollars.

Immsy · 22 Mar 2010 at 18:45

Vidahost now do some form of cloud based VDS which allow you to add to it and take away capacity/cpu/ram in real time I think.

Major_Disaster · 23 Mar 2010 at 01:54

I would reccomend having a look at Express Hosting UK

Ive been very impressed by the customer support and their infrastructure is top notch (Global Switch 2 / Bluesquare)

K@rl · 23 Mar 2010 at 09:37

I went for Webfusion in the end. Seem like a good company although they messed up my order and put 2008 server instead of 2003. Support seems really good too.

K@rl · 25 Mar 2010 at 09:16

So far have been quite impressed however 2 things have bugged the ???? out of me.

1. No ASP support on a Windows box???? REALLY!?!
2. No i386 resource for when installing additional Windows components.

Am still covered under my 30 day money back guarantee - now lets see how their support fairs.

Inazuma · 25 Mar 2010 at 18:00

Linode = London based but with the cheapness of American VPS? That sounds very good to me

Paul91 · 25 Mar 2010 at 19:33

Inazuma said:
Linode = London based but with the cheapness of American VPS? That sounds very good to me

It sure is. It's even better when the pound is worth more. Great service though, definitely worth the price.

mooni · 25 Mar 2010 at 20:41

With linode I think there is no minium subscription, so you could try it out for 1 month. There seem to be a few good reviews about them

malef!c · 26 Mar 2010 at 21:08

I have used UK VPSes from WiseHosting.co.uk before without a problem, not a huge company but stable enough.

GeForce · 5 Apr 2010 at 10:44

Old topic, I know, but just to say I've moved to Linode and they're brilliant! Fantastic service and a great spec VPS for the price.

Kemik · 5 Apr 2010 at 20:17

a2b2 is another.

daz · 7 Apr 2010 at 08:55

Just some advice - check the backup policy of the provider. I know A2B2/Vaserv had some problems a while back because they were hacked and hundreds of VPSs were deleted. No backups.

Also, another thing to check is what type of disks your provider uses. The biggest bottleneck in a VPS node is the disk system. Using SATA disks usually results in sluggish performance, especially in database or disk intensive applications. You'll want to look for a provider that uses SAS/SCSI disks, ideally in RAID10. A good VPS running on SAS disks rivals a cheap dedicated server for raw speed, and is even better in terms of redundancy since cheap dedis rarely have and redundancy whereas a VPS node will have dual PSUs, RAID, and be better quality hardware all round.

Swanster · 7 Apr 2010 at 20:49

Mythic beasts is another - I've had a VDS account with them since about mid 2005, with no issues whatsoever.

inogen · 8 Apr 2010 at 17:48

I've used eukHosts before. Always been good.

I've used interhost/velox before. used to be good. Now dreadful.