VPS/VDS hosting in United Kingdom

Table of contents

• Virtual server in England: how does it work?
• The main difference between VPS and VDS
• Large UK data centers
• When is it necessary to rent a VPS/VDS in England?
• VPS on SSD or HDD in England?
• Why you should order VPS/VDS in the UK

Not so long ago, hosters offered cloud hosting (shared) or a dedicated server for rent, which led to unnecessary expenses that were not always possible. Now VPS/VDS is available in a number of European countries, including the UK. This is a modern technology for hosting websites, involving the distribution of resources of a single server among all clients.

Renting a VPS/VDS in the UK assumes that the client rents a mini-server, which is located on the hosting machine. Due to acceptable rates for the service, a business can get rid of costs and optimize expenses. The cost of the service of renting a VPS/VDS in England is incomparably much lower than renting a physical machine in its entirety.

It is necessary to assess the relevance of renting exactly the UPU/VDU depending on the current needs of the project, tasks and goals. After all, often renting an inexpensive virtual server is more expedient than buying a separate physical server.

Virtual server in England: how does it work?

How does the unique technology of VPS/VDS actually function and how does it differ from classic hosting? So the capacity of one physical server is divided into equal parts. For this purpose, hardware or software virtualization is used. Due to this solution it is possible to distribute resources to clients in equal parts.

If it is hardware virtualization, a so-called hypervisor is used. The task of the hypervisor is to create a virtualization layer where the virtual server provided to the customer is separated from other virtual machines. Each tenant of the VPS/VDS is hosted on a mini-server created with the help of virtualization tools. But clients do not interfere with each other. All projects are completely isolated.

The virtualization tool allows the virtual UPU/VDS server to work as a separate physical server. This service is gaining popularity not only in England, today it is popular everywhere. It is an ideal solution if you are planning to launch a project aimed at a European audience.

Advantages of renting a virtual server for your company:

• Daily backups (protection against data loss);
• SSL certificates;
• protection from DDoS-attacks of L2-L4 level;
• access to common control panels - ISP Manager, Virtualmin, VESTA;
• permanence, availability of the service for users;
• high speed and throughput.

Decided to start a business in the field of ecommerce? Do you want to start a business in the UK market with a small investment? You should definitely consider renting a VPS/VDS in England. For online stores with a large amount of information and high traffic, it is ideal. But you won't have to rent expensive hardware to meet all the needs of your online store.

The main difference between VPS and VDS

VPS/VDS in the UK (London, Manchester) is a service that involves leasing a certain capacity of a physical machine to a client. VPS/VDS is managed in the same way as a physical machine. The client has root rights immediately after activation of the service, so he has the authority to make almost any changes to the virtual server (you can install your own software or operating system).

It should be said that there is no fundamental difference between VPS and VDS. It is one service: there is a physical machine, which with the help of software or hardware tools is divided into several equal parts - virtualized. What virtualization is - on hardware or software level, only this determines VPS/VDS. When they say OpenVZ, they mean hardware virtualization, and when they talk about KVM, they mean virtualization at the expense of the operating system.

In the Russian-speaking environment the service has one name - virtual server. In the English-speaking segment of the Internet, VPS and VDS are usually distinguished. However, both terms appeared at the same time. But at the moment they are combined and not distinguished, offering as one service.

Large UK data centers

There are several major data centers in the UK, here are some of them:

1. Equinix is an international data center provider with several facilities in London. They provide colocation, IT infrastructure outsourcing and cloud services.
2. Digital Realty is another international data center provider with multiple facilities in London and other regions of the UK. They provide equipment colocation, IT infrastructure outsourcing, cloud services and managed services.
3. Telehouse is a data center provider that provides equipment colocation, cloud services, and managed services. They have several facilities in London and other regions of the UK.
4. UKFast is a data center provider with several facilities in Manchester and London. They provide colocation services, managed services, cloud services and security services.
5. NTT Communications is an international data center provider with facilities in London and other regions of the UK. They provide equipment colocation, cloud services and managed services.

These are just a few of the major UK data centers, there are other providers that also provide equipment colocation, IT infrastructure outsourcing, cloud services and managed services.

When is it necessary to rent a VPS/VDS in England?

A virtual server will be useful for you and your business if you need to reduce server rental costs, while you strive to keep the power and computing power of the server at a dedicated level. It is a solution for growing and dynamic projects. You can rent a VPS/VDS in England that will solve the most specific tasks that have been set for a new project.

Benefits of VPS/VDS rental:

• effective promotion of the project in the English-speaking environment;
• minimum costs for component upgrades, maintenance and repair;
• absence of serious expenses for system modernization.

This is not a complete list of advantages, but already these three points in most cases are enough to make a decision - to move from cloud hosting, giving preference to the new technology. The most interesting thing is that you can rent a virtual server for the price of one cup of delicious coffee.

Clients who order VPS rental in the UK can deploy projects of any complexity with or without personal data storage: ecommerce, online stores, blogs, applications and so on.

A virtual server allows you to:

• install any OS;
• roll up software, modify it;
• create users with or without administrator rights.

You can use VPS/VDS for your website, online store, game server, VPN installation. If the server is used for trading, it can be assigned another very important task - to store data. Most often store documents, files, photos. Of course, VPS can also act as a storage for backup.

VPS on SSD or HDD in England?

Here you need to know that VPS/VDS on HDD disks is slower compared to SSD, but it is a more affordable option: you can buy a disk with a larger capacity for the same price. HDD becomes the choice for projects that are not characterized by high load.

SSD is mainly used to maximize data transfer speeds. You can rent a virtual server with installed Linux, Windows and custom builds. When choosing a virtual server, take into account the technical characteristics of the processor, the amount of memory, disk space, traffic, virtualization method.

What projects can be hosted on VPS/VDS servers in England?

Virtual and dedicated servers are suitable for hosting:

• informational sites - personal blogs, news resources, etc.;
• commercial projects - lendings, landing pages, company websites with services;
• large amount of data on orders, statuses, etc...;
• online stores with high traffic;
• aggregators, mobile applications in various verticals (food delivery, dating, education, games, etc.).

On virtual or dedicated servers you can organize remote work RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), get full access with root rights and customize / configure VPS / VDS for the needs of a particular project.

Why you should order VPS/VDS in the UK

European countries are traditionally considered expensive. But the cost of a VPS / VDS tariff plan in the UK is often lower compared to German or French ones. At the same time, the customer receives a number of advantages:

• server placement in a Tier III level data center in London with the ability to promote projects to mainland Europe;
• infrastructure, security and uninterrupted operation (emergency protection systems, alternative power supply sources are provided);
• high-level performance (quality components, professional virtualization technologies);
• environmental friendliness (working with energy certified by Good Environmental Choice);
• protection of personal data and guarantee of confidentiality (in the UK they pay special attention to the work with such information).

Remote desktop gives you the opportunity to manage your projects from anywhere in the world. VPS or VDS is an opportunity to "rent a shelf in the closet", where you will share space with other neighbors. All issues related to fault tolerance, infrastructure maintenance, data center cooling and other nuances will be on the provider's shoulders.