UK VPS Hosting

Fast SSD Virtual Disks

We ensure that your host node resources are never overloaded, paying particular attention to disk contention.

Farbyte's VPS servers are supplied with lightening fast SSD disk caches, running at 500MB+ per second for random and sequential disk IO.

At Farbyte we ensure that your VPS has a fair share of disk IO resources and isn't adversely effected by other users VPS disk IO activity.

Full Administrative Control

With our UK VPS hosting, you will have full root access to the server, so you can install and configure the virtual server exactly the way you want it.

You have full control of the VPS allowing you to reboot, shutdown and rebuild the VPS at any time of day or night, simply clicking a button in our web based VPS control panel is all that is required.

We also provide a FREE web based SSH console for every VPS, so you'll never get blocked by your virtual server firewall rules again!

Many other OpenVZ, XEN & KVM VPS providers will oversell & overload the host node, often by 300% and sometimes even more!

This means, for example, that for every 1GB of RAM in the physical server other VPS providers will sell 3GB or more to customers. This policy can have a devastating effect on the performance and reliability of your VPS.

At Farbyte we never overload our host nodes. Our virtual server nodes are built using the latest hardware and specifically designed by our engineers to provide industry leading VPS performance with the latest Sandy and Ivy Bridge CPU's.

In addition each physical server is constantly monitored for performance and we are alerted if thresholds are reached. In this case we can upgrade the hardware, before it has any affect on our clients VPS.

Reliable VPS Hosting

With a 99.9% uptime guarantee and redundant components used throughout our UK VPS infrastructure, you can rest assured that your virtual server will enjoy the highest levels of uptime the hosting industry can offer.

Using our state of the art, web based control panel, you can monitor your levels of bandwidth, CPU and RAM consumption from the last hour to the last 12 months! Ensuring that you can plan for any resource upgrades before running low and giving you a detailed view of how your VPS is performing.

IPS Protected VPS

All Farbyte's VPS are protected by the latest Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), constantly monitoring all incoming and outgoing network content for intrusion attempts, worms, viruses and other unwanted activity.

We know of no other UK VPS hosting service that provides IPS protection for their clients within the price range that we do!

All our 'unmanaged' VPS come with technical support from the same people that designed the infrastructure, not some 3rd party service designed to simply provide a 'canned' response to the ticket until a member of staff can look at it.

In the event of clients experiencing technical issue that fall out of our standard 'unmanaged' support, we often provide additional assistance to customers when possible, which our testimonials page vouches for.

Each VPS also comes with an easy to use web based control panel (SolusVM) allowing clients to reset root passwords, reboot, rebuild and connect to the VPS console at anytime totally free of charge.

We offer 24 hour technical support for all critical services (e.g. network outages). Normal support hours are 09:00-18:00 Monday - Friday and 11:00-16:00 Saturday - Sunday. However, we often also provide support out of these hours, as we are working on infrastructure maintenance, etc.

UK VPS Location

Our UK VPS hosting infrastructure is located in Manchester (UK), with multiple, 10Gbit resilient internet connections ensuring excellent network uptime and performance.

The facility offers redundant power (N+1 generators and UPS), fire detection & suppression, air conditioning and round the clock security surveillance.

Our networks and servers are extremely fast, but don't just take our word for it, see for yourself by downloading this 5MB test file.

A Choice Of Operating Systems

Linux is a fast, extensible and stable OS, making it an excellent choice for server based operations. We offer a wide range of Linux operating systems on our OpenVZ VPS service for you to choose from.

Our operating system choices include CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Scientific Linux.

Monitored 24/7/365

To ensure that your OpenVZ VPS runs at its best, we continually monitor our host nodes and network 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

On the rare occasions that we may experience an issue, we are the first to know and ensure that our qualified engineers are in attendance straightaway.

You can rest assured that your UK VPS is in the best hands possible!