Virtual Private Servers (VPS) xen-hosting services
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VPS Hosting
Virtual Private Servers let you have the root on a server as if you were on a true dedicated server, at a very low cost. Performances remains almost unchanged, as we don't put too many customers on the same hardware (see the following explanations).Warning! Those prices are the one of our VPS ZONE1 to be paid in USD (Singapore, Seattle, and Florida). For the prices of VPS in Australia (Sydney), please click here. For pricing in Europe (Paris, London, Barcelona, Italy), please go to our European VPS page at gplhost.co.uk.
GET YOUR OWN ROOT SHELL ON ONE OF OUR XEN VPS:
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Xen VPS Package 1
1 GB
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data storage 64 MB physical memory (RAM) Monthly transfer : 5 GB (4 Month minimum subscription) Your own VPN server and backup DNS for just 12 USD per month is possible with GPLHost! |
Xen VPS Package 2
3 GB
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data storage 128 MB physical memory (RAM) Monthly transfer : 20 GB (3 Month minimum subscription) Enough to run a basic web server for static content with no serious mail storage. |
Xen VPS Package 3
8 GB
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data storage 192 MB physical memory (RAM) Monthly transfer : 40 GB (2 Month minimum subscription) The minimum for running the DTC control panel do mail scanning, antispam and antivirus. |
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Xen VPS Package 4
15 GB
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data storage 256 MB physical memory (RAM) Monthly transfer : 50 GB Start your first web activity and prepare for a fair trafic. |
Xen VPS Package 5
25 GB
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data storage 384 MB physical memory (RAM) Monthly transfer : 80 GB Resell your own Web space using DTC, for bigger content and popular content. |
Xen VPS Package 6
50 GB
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data storage 512 MB physical memory (RAM) Monthly transfer : 120 GB For digg-resistant web servers with reverse proxy server and high mail traffic. |
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Those prices do not include the payment gateway fees (0 to 5% depending on the payment method) and are for zone 1 only.
All prices here are in USD, and for the VPS not in Europe. For Europe, we have now established a price grid in EURO, and we might charge VAT separately if you don't have a European company registered outside UK with a valid EU VAT number (according to the EU legislation).
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Xen hosting VPS Platform:
Our hosting hardware:
We now get only Supermicro 1U servers with PDSME+, PDSMU and PDSMU+ motherboard and core2 duo or quad processor with VT and EM64T features (1066 MHz RAM), so we can run 64 bits operating systems. All our servers have at least 4x1GB of RAM and 2x320 SATA2 hard drives. Older servers are intel P4 servers with 800 MHz FSB and HT at more than 3GHz, with 2GB or 4GB of RAM, and 2x200 or 2x300 GB SATA drive using soft RAID1 and LVM, under Linux Debian (200GB or 300GB of data with RAID1 redundancy) for xen dom0. We currently don't use expensive dual-core xeon platforms, as the cost of a single processor would double the overall retail price. We are convince that the consumer product (the newest Pentium with VT and dual FSB) are perfect, as they offer you the best deal with the maximum power. Also, we keep using 4x1GB ram and not more for each of our servers as we don't want to put too much customers on the same server (like other hosts do).Your virtual server will be hosted in a native LVM partition of physical servers for faster access (no slow NFS access) and we have never more than 12 to 16 customers on the same server to provide good quality.
Few words about Xen virtualisation software:
We use Xen virtualisation system because it's simply the state of the art in virtual server hosting (VPS hosting). With Xen, end users enjoy short cpu, hard drive and network latencies thanks to accurate scheduling (note: this is totaly different from other virtualization technologies like UML, vServer or Virtuozzo). Memory is not shared and not burstable among users, the physical memory is simply split a slice that we rent to you, the same way we do with LVM HDD slices.Our Xen VPS control panel
We have released an open source solution for Xen VPS hosting. This solution gives our customer the ability to start/shutdown/force-shutdown a virtual server. With it, you can as well do a file system check (fsck) and reinstall your operating system from scratch with few clicks on our control panel. Another nice feature is that once you have processed the account opening form and payment, your account will be opened instantly, and your operating system installed. All you will have to do is start the virtual machine by clicking on the "boot-up" button, setup a root password, and start using your VPS.As of writting (august 2006), this is the only Xen control panel that has been release that can do such things. Here are some screenshot of that interface:
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If you want to know more about it, you can have a look to the project pages here:
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VPS Hosting Hardware
We now use only Supermicro hardware, as it's fast and reliable. Our Xen servers are powered with a 64 bits Intel core2duo, running with a Intel core2duo processor. Because hard drives DO fail, we also use RAID1 all the time for the safety of your data (this saved us many times already).VPS hosting traffic:
You will discuss with us of the traffic shaping policy that fits the best your needs when using your Virtual Private Server, and we will help you to setup linux CBQ traffic shaping with either strong or very bustable bandwidth, to protect you against high unwanted peaks but providing a good quality of bandwidth. Bandwidth overage is calculated at the rate of $0.75 each GB over quota, accounted on your end-of-the-month invoice. Monthly costs are to be paid in advance.VPS Packages and setup:
This server will be already configured for hosting with no added charges. Yes, free setup including the contol panel AND free software maintenance if you choose DTC + Debian stable. Note that it is possible to setup our control panel only on Debian Stable or higher (testing and SID have limited support), even if other OS are supported, installation takes currently too mutch time to make it a comercial proposal. Note that this may change in the near future.
DEBIAN
- We can setup sarge and etch system as you require, and this solution is
fully managed, including our control panel and it's dependencies. Software maintainance is
not our responsability, but we do provide extensive help on instant messenger
for almost all kinds of issues, thanks to more than 8 years of experience in Debian
administration and programming.
CentOS
- We can setup CentOS 4, and later upgrade to 5. CentOS is a very nice open source fork of
RedHat Entreprise Linux that is getting very popular. Software and operating system
maintenance is your responsibility under this operating system.
Warning: our pack1 is NOT adapted for running CentOS.
Gentoo
- We can setup Gentoo. Gentoo is a very nice source based linux distribution. We suggest you
to take enough memory to be able to recompile the software you will need.
Software and operating system maintenance is your responsibility.
NetBSD
- NetBSD 3.0 can be setup as Xen domU kernel is natively supported by the NetBSD source
kernels. Software and operating system maintenance is your responsibility.
NetBSD 5 (current) has the new feature to finally work
with Xen 3 with a 64 bits dom0. So we can AGAIN provide NetBSD support and
setup, if you don't mind to run the latest version of NetBSD. Please be
aware that NetBSD 4 WILL NOT run on most of our servers.
Get in touch after registration, as most of our new servers that are using
64bits Xen wont have the NetBSD kernel installed yet.
Each VPS hosting package comes with:
- 2 IP addresses ($10 a month for each extra IP)
- The above mentioned server with standard and minimalistic (to keep secure) Debian system preinstalled. Other types of Unix can be installed upon request (fedora, centos, gentoo, etc.).
- DTC hosting control panel for easy configuration and server administration IF you take Pack 4 or more
- Technical support (email + phone hotline + monitoring)
- Slave DNS and MX service (if using DTC control panel) on another datacenter
- Firewall and traffic control adivce and installation (iptables and tc utility management)
VPS hosting selling conditions:
The price of the setup is included with virtual servers (no setup fee at all).A onetime free backup service is provided upon requests to save your system files, and an automated free of charge ftp backup service can be setup to back up your hosting files directly to your office or your home (using DTC's generated script).
Before you register: read this about the procedure:
When you register your VPS, you will be redirected to our registration form in one of our servers in Singapore. The registration procedure is fully automated, and after payment, you will have your VPS starting to setup automaticaly. However, you are strongly encouraged to send an e-mail to us stating all the requirements for your VPS like: operating system (Debian with DTC control panel, Debian (without DTC), NetBSD, CentOS...), and anything else you think we should know. Note that our normal setup includes only one (LVM backend) ext3 partition, and a swap partition equal to amount of memory (we wont allow you to use more swap, and we monitor our VPS to be sure they don't swap like crasy). Your VPS will be first setup with one unique IP address and if you need more, we will have to ask you why as per APNIC (Asia) / ARIN (USA) / RIPE (Europe) policy.Also, note that our company may at anytime ask further details needed to verify your identity, like a copy of your ID card or passport. We can also call you to check for your phone number validity. We know that this can delay your account activation, but that's the only way we can protect ourself against the growing number of hackers registering VPSes with a stolen paypal account.
Memory usage and package choice considerations for VPS hosting
Please take into consideration that a setup with our control panel implies the use of many servers that use a lot of memory, especialy with email virus and spam scanning. With our normal setup, you have apache + mysql + php + postfix + amavis + clamav + spamassassin + courier + ftp server + etc... With 128MB, your VPS will swap directly when it boots, and with 128MB memroy + 128MB swap is not enough for spamassassin to work properly if you recieve big emails. So please considre to take AT LEAST pacakge 4, and forget about the idea of running it in packages lower than package 3 (in fact even Pack 3 is not something we would advise you to take with the control panel: sometimes some process may die because not having enough memory).Here are some screenshots of the control panel we can setup for free (Debian only) in our vps hosting:
More screenshots can be seen in our open source control panel screen shot page.
GPLHost does good VPS hosting CPU deals
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| Public CPU monitor example for all VPSes of a server |
Even better, with GPLHost, you have access to a CPU monitor (see snap of an hourly log on the right).
This graphic will let you know daily, weekly, monthly and yearly who is the customer that takes all the machine time on the physical hardware. This way you KNOW that the server is not overloaded.
The CPU and Network monitor is, as all the software we do, released in open source. It's written in python as python is what uses Xen, and it's available in our Debian repository (ftp.gplhost.com, ftp.gplhost.sg, ftp.gplhost.fr).
