Dedicated Servers

We offer four standard dual-core configurations of server and we've just added three new configurations using Intel's quad-core Core i7 for class leading performance.

Dual Core Servers

AMD's X2 64bit CPU's offer cost effective dual-core performance with increased memory performance due to their onboard memory controller.

We've not skimped on the RAM or the diskspace either so these offer good value.

	d.3	d.5	d.7	d.9
CPU	AMD X2 64 5600+ Dual Core (benchmark)		AMD X2 64 6000+ Dual Core (benchmark)
RAM	2GB DDR2	4GB DDR2	6GB DDR2	8GB DDR2
Hard Disk	2 x 400GB		2 x 750GB
Backup	100GB Backup space
RAID	Software RAID 1
Bandwidth	2000GB @ 100Mbit / Unlimited @ 10Mbit*.
NIC	1Gbit (100Mbit to Switch)
IP4 addresses	7 - Extra available with RIPE justification
Price	£70 monthly (£60.87 ex VAT)	£90 monthly (£78.26 ex VAT)	£100 monthly (£86.96 ex VAT)	£120 monthly (£104.35 ex VAT)
Setup	FREE
	Order	Order	Order	Order

Quad Core Servers

Intel's Core i7 quad-core chips incorporate their latest 'Nehalem' architecture. Currently there's nothing faster out there. These chips benchmark at almost ten times the performance of the dual Xeon systems we were specifying just 3-4 years ago.

With the fast CPU we've added up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM and fast RAID disk hardware for the most demanding of uses.

	q.3	q.5	q.7
CPU	Intel Core i7-920 2.66Ghz (benchmark)		Intel Core i7-975 3.33Ghz (benchmark)
RAM	8GB DDR3	12GB DDR3
Hard Disk	2 x 750GB	2 x 1500GB	3 x 1500GB
Backup	100GB Backup space
RAID	Software RAID 1		Software RAID 5
Bandwidth	2000GB @ 100Mbit / Unlimited @ 10Mbit*.
NIC	1Gbit (100Mbit to Switch)
IP4 addresses	4 - Extra available with RIPE justification
Price	£100 monthly (£86.96 ex VAT)	£120 monthly (£104.35 ex VAT)	£150 monthly (£130.43 ex VAT)
Setup	£150 one off setup charge
	Order	Order	Order

* We limit you to a 10Mbit connection if you exceed 2000GB. Additional bandwidth @ 100Mbit can be purchased for £15 per TB.

We can also tailor a server, just for you. If our off the shelf servers don't quite match with your needs or you require a server in our UK or US datacenter, please contact our sales staff.

With our dedicated servers, you can optionally add the following addons.

Secure Server Licence

We offer a range of Secure Server Licences from RapidSSL and Geotrust.

	RapidSSL	Geotrust Premium
Intended Use	Basic SSL certificate for use with light e-commerce and securing web applications.	Premium SSL package, including a 99% trusted, highly credible single root install SSL certificate and a clickable site seal for your website. Suitable for larger e-commerce sites.
Site Seal	Static Seal	Dynamic Seal (Date/time stamp dynamically updated)
Encryption	40 - 256bit	40 - 256bit
Mobile Web Use	Limited acceptance on some mobile browsers.
Warranty	$10,000	$100,000
Price	£49.00 GBP Annually	£149.00 GBP Annually

If you've an SSL certificate from another provider, you can install that yourself through your cPanel control panel.

Magento Installation

Magento is a comprehensive, feature-rich and powerful open source e-commerce system from Varien.

Our dedicated servers are compatible with Magento's system requirements.

If you'd like more info about Magento, please visit the Magento website.

We can install it for you for free.

Enterprise class operating systems

Our servers all run enterprise editions of the open source GNU/Linux operating system. Our distribution of choice is CentOS, the Community ENTerprise Operating System, which is based on the open source Linux distribution from redhat.com.

With CentOS, you get a proven enterprise class operating system that is suitable for long term usage in production environments. We don't try to fit desktop class operating systems onto servers.

Along with CentOS, you can run all the most popular open source projects such as Apache Web Server, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Ruby and Perl.

Easy server management

To manage your server remotely we recommend cPanel and Web Host Manager from cPanel, the industry's leading control panel software. Even if you're a Linux guru, cPanel saves you valuable time in maintaining a server.

You can try out a demo of WHM and cPanel by clicking the graphic to your right.

A cPanel licence is currently £30.

Webmin is an open source control panel for managing a Linux server and whilst it doesn't have all the features of cPanel, it saves a system admin from resorting to the command line for every task.

You can find out more about Webmin by clicking the graphic to your right.

All recent versions of Webmin are under a BSD-like licence, meaning that it may be freely distributed and modified for commercial and non-commercial use.

We use premier class data centres located in the UK, Germany and the USA. The multiple data centre approach allows us to keep costs low but also to place your server closer to your target audience if that is critical to your application. Please note that our current order system places orders for our German datacenter by default. Please contact our sales staff for UK and US datacentres.

In Germany, we use the Hetzner DataPark located in Falkenstein.

This award winning datacenter offers unparalleled redundant systems including 92Gbit transit. It's 100% powered by hydroelectric energy making it the greenest datacenter we use.

In the UK, we use BlueSquare. BlueSquare has four data centres. Three are located in Maidenhead and a forth in Milton Keynes.

Their data centres combine resilient infrastructure, including N+1 air conditioning and N+1 high power UPS systems, with generator backup and advanced fire detection systems, all linked into their own on-site Network Operations Centre (NOC), ensuring constant 24x7 monitoring and control.

BlueSquare recently announced a direct link to Manchester from it's facilities providing internationally redundant connectivity avoiding London Docklands where most of the UK's connectivity enters the country.

In the USA, we use AtlantaNAP. AtlantaNAP has it's own facility in Atlanta.

The Atlanta facility is a state of the art retrofitted A&P meat freezer warehouse made to keep servers running nice and cool. The security at Atlanta is unrivaled. With a 10 foot razor fence, keycarded entry, and a security system that includes redundant security camera servers, biometric handprint scanning, and trained security guards, the services are the safest in Atlanta.

The connection is sitting directly on one of AGL's main fiber backbones, and is part of a metro ethernet ring based on Extreme Networks 10 gig technology.

Free Support

For many, a web server may be your first experience with managing your own Linux server. That's why we're here to support you along the way.

Support is free and unlimited as long as the request can be fulfilled in 15 minutes or less. For larger problems, we provide an ever expanding knowledgebase with solutions to common issues.

Please keep in mind that our servers are unmanaged, so maintenance and upkeep are the responsibility of the customer. That means that you're responsible for software updates and ensuring your server is secure.

If you're new to server management, we strongly recommend the use of cPanel's Web Host Manager and cPanel customer facing software.

Managed Support

If you'd rather we looked after your server then we offer managed support.

With managed support, we look after updates for the operating system, apply software patches to maintain security and monitor server performance.

There are a couple of restrictions on this service

1. We like our standard software - CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP5.
2. We like cPanel / Web Host Manager.

The restrictions are there to make our life easier as they fit in with our hosting business, but they're also there to make yours easier. We've been looking after public facing web servers since 2001 and we know what works and what doesn't.

Managed support is £20 per month(£17.39 ex VAT), per server, in addition to the cost of your server and cPanel licence.

Both free and managed support are supported by our support ticketing system, our knowledgebase and when circumstances dictate, telephone support.