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Easy to use, and power just when you need it, Bytemark have been providing great value hosting since 2002, backed up by a team of Linux experts.
There isn't much you can't do with our virtual machines. They're multi-purpose web and mail servers. No arbitrary limits on domains or databases, root access as standard, and you can upgrade them as soon as you need.
If you need isolation or guaranteed performance, our hand-built dedicated servers offer competitive value up to 16GB RAM with all the convenience of a virtual machine.
For the highest uptime, up to 8 hot-swap drives and 64GB RAM, our premium dedicated servers are intended for the most business critical applications where down time is expensive.
- Established 2003, profitable from the outset
- Free access to reboot and reimage facilities
- Websites and mailboxes from your desktop
- £100,000 core network infrastructure
- Experienced in cluster design and high uptime
- Email and telephone support as standard
Managed hosting
While you can scale your hardware easily with Bytemark, can you scale your business too? If you're worried about day-to-day maintenance, we can handle security upgrades, monitoring and be the first to respond in case of any trouble, 24 hours a day.
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Essential extras
You get more than a stand-alone hosting product, you can also use any of our free or low-cost extra services without having to rely on third parties:
- DNS service - free, for all your domains
- IPv6 service - free, on request
- Backup space included with all hosting, or £1 per 5GB per month
- Domain registrations - from £7.50 per year
- Wholesale anti-spam service from £0.50 per domain per month
Easy to use
root access is for the wizards, but you don't need a wand to use our hosting. Your server appears as a hard drive, right on your desktop, and you can publish files, web sites and applications with a sweep of the mouse.
Clustering facilities
Bytemark are experts at planning cost-effective clusters. We can help you set up a group of servers that will work together to keep your site up, even if one of them fails. We use:
- Private VLANs for isolation of servers and sharing addresses
- Load balancers to detect dead servers and re-route web requests
- Our management expertise to make sure your application isn't making any elementary errors
Price list
We believe in transparent pricing, allowing you to compare us with the competition before being given a sales pitch, even for "high end" servers. So we publish our complete, current price list online (simple, but how many other hosts don't bother?)
Operating system choices
Depending on the hosting technology, you can pick from any of the following operating systems when you order your server, and we support every OS as long as the upstream vendor does (usually plus a bit longer).
Linux
- Debian (etch or lenny)
- Ubuntu (hardy or intrepid)
- CentOS (4.7 or 5.3)
- Fedora Core 10
Windows
We can offer Windows Server 2003, 2008 or Data Center edition for a small extra charge (read more...)
“Whenever you call Bytemark for anything, they always have time to tell you what's going on. We've never had the fob off or felt fobbed off.”
Our control panel allows you to register and renew your domains, and update payment details.
A 2GB dedicated server with RAID-1 for £59 per month - control and isolation for less!