Our servers can be supplied with Symbiosis, our hosting platform that does the fiddly server admin for you, so you can concentrate on your important web sites and email.
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All our hosting strives towards the same facilities -
full root access to run any hosting technology that you
need; whether it's PHP, Rails, Java or anything else, if
it runs on Linux, you can run it with us.
Memory (or RAM) is a big deal
The most important factor governing a web or mail
server's ability to perform under load is usually the
amount of memory it contains. The point at which your
server will hit its memory limit depends on:
how many different applications you are running at
once and how often they are called on (e.g. emails
received, web requests processed)
If your server isn't receiving many visitors,
email, chat sessions, or whatever else it has been set
up to do, it can run more simultaneous tasks.
If you have a high-traffic site, you may find that its
demands will stop you from running anything else without
compromising performance.
Start small, upgrade without fuss
A 256MB server will easily handle tens of low-traffic
web sites, or one or two higher-traffic ones, a database,
and a few thousand email messages per day. Whatever
package you pick, if your server does start to slow, you
can upgrade to a higher package, virtual or dedicated.
You won't have to reconfigure it unless you want to, and
will only pay the difference in price.
Why might I start with a dedicated server?
While our virtual machines can do everything that
dedicated servers do, dedicated servers have some
inherent advantages:
Performance is guaranteed by the
hardware, during testing you'll get the peak
performance you need;
Sensitive data is physically
isolated on your own drives, giving a simple
reassurance to third parties who require that (e.g. PCI
DSS and other auditing requirements);
More storage - Dedicated servers
can have 1000GB (1TB) drives fitted compared to the
80Gb limit on our virtual machines.
