We're excited to announce that we'll be exhibiting at CMSExpo in Chicago, Illinois, May 8th-10th. We've attended CMSExpo's previously, and it's always been a tremendous conference, with insightful sessions, and enjoyable group of attendees. As always, our booth with be full of VPS.NET swag for you to go home with... we might even have a few CMSExpo only goodies for you!
If you haven't signed up for CMSExpo yet, use the coupon code VPS2012 to save $100 off registration!
We've made VPS.net that little bit easier to use. If you are signing up for the first time, or an existing user we now allow you to login using your Gmail or Facebook account. If you are an existing user you must first link your Facebook/Gmail accounts at https://control.vps.net/profile. Scroll down and then you can just select the accounts that you wish to link. Once done you can then login on to the control panel. If you are a new user you can just click the link on signup.
Simple as that 
Members of the VPS.NET team, Rus Foster, and Terry Myers, along with UK2Group VP of Engineering, Nick Nelson, travelled to the beautiful state of Colorado this week to show their support for DrupalCon 2012. While the robots were in limited supply for the show, the team was able to give away awesome VPS.NET branded mugs, pens and even mints.
DrupalCon had over 3,000 attendees and some awesome fellow exhibitors, including Standing Cloud, who we will be announcing a partnership with later this week. You're not dreaming - get excited for 30 second application deployment times!
With our rapid expansion to 13 locations this month, we've created some awesome new banners for you. These new banners promote the 13 unique cloud hosting locations that VPS.NET has available. We hope to see them around the web!
With the launch of our new Paris and Manchester locations (with 5 more coming soon), we are doing some free nodes for new AND existing customers. All you have to do is login to the control panel and create a new VPS.
Make sure you select "Promo Nodes" as the node type.
Select the Manchester or Paris clouds as the clouds to build on and you're done.
For new customers we allow one promo node. For existing customers the number is limited to 20% of your nodes, or one node, whichever is the greater amount.
These nodes are free for 30 days and then become chargeable at our normal rates. Any questions please drop mgmt@vps.net a line and we will be happy to help out.
With the opening of 7 new datacenter options, VPS.NET strengthens its product offerings worldwide.
VPS.NET, a leading provider of public clouds, is excited to announce the opening of 7 new fantastic locations for new and existing customers. VPS.NET is opening new clouds in San Jose, Dallas, Washington DC within the US. Manchester, Paris, Frankfurt in the EU and Singapore in the Far East combined with its 6 existing locations. The introduction of these new locations allows customers the opportunity to utilize VPS.NET in a number of different fashions including targeting local customers, content distribution, and minimizing data loss risk.
VPS.NET now has the largest number of locations of any public cloud provider offering 13 total locations providing both Windows and Linux cloud hosting out of each location.
Rus Foster, Managing Director of VPS.NET said, "Our nearest competitors have 6 locations, most have fewer. We have 2-3 times the capacity and coverage of other cloud providers. Cloud is changing the way things are done. We are one of the oldest cloud providers and that shows in our offerings, coverage and commitment!"
Continuing he said, “We can now provide local support to the smallest hot dog stand in San Jose, to the sushi seller in Tokyo, along with the global footprint required for enterprise customers. It's a no brainer who your next cloud provider should be."
Some of the new VPS.NET clouds will be offered for free for new and existing customers, with other clouds offered at vastly reduced rates. The VPS.NET Cloud infrastructure is backed by real people who care about the cloud, located in the US, UK, and Ukraine. 24x7 support is available to all VPS.NET customers through phone, email, ticket; carrier pigeon is not an option.
ABOUT VPS.NET
VPS.NET is backed and owned by UK2 Group providing hosting to over 1,000,000 domains and with over 200 staff with customers in 75+ countries.
We love to talk about all the features of the cloud: redundancy, scalability, affordability; if there's a word that ends in -ility, it's probably been used to describe how the cloud is better for you. One word you rarely hear discussed is security. We know that security is important, and that's why we have in place a number of security mechanisms to keep your cloud hosting account and cloud vps servers safe.
At the most basic level, we perform a thorough security audit of the datacenters we've chosen to use for our cloud locations. Each datacenter we use must have proper security protocols in place, including 24/7 monitoring, restricted access, locking cabinets, and thorough logging of all access requests by tenants of the datacenter.
Our employees are also required to practice good security policies. Each of our offices have restricted key card only access, with 24/7 door monitoring, to ensure only authorized personnel are able to enter the building. Employees are forced to change their passwords every 30 days, and required to use a VPN during all business hours, which not only encrypts all data transferred but also limits access to non-work related sites which may pose as a security risk.
We also require our customers to use two factor authentication when signing in for their VPS.NET account. We of course encourage strict passwords, using numbers, characters and symbols. By using a strong password, it becomes significantly more difficult for malicious users to guess or crack a password by using a brute force utility. Once logged in, we restrict each VPS.NET account to approved IP Addresses only. If a login is received from an unapproved IP Address, the user will have to answer multiple questions that they've setup. If you haven't setup these security questions or they need changed, it can be done at any time at security setup page. For the extremely security conscious, we've also setup a PIN Security tool. Through the PIN Security tool, you're able to enter a mobile phone number, that can be called or communicated with through SMS Messaging. Each time you login, a PIN number will be sent to your mobile phone number, which you'll be forced to enter before you'll be able to view your account.
We also recommend our clients practice smart security. Through the use of a VPN, such as www.vpnhq.com (a fellow UK2Group brand), you can greatly enhance your security. Not only does it encrypt all your data transferred, but also allows you to easily limit your SSH client to a single IP address allowed to login to your server. Additionally, using strong passwords, which are frequently changed is a great practice to maintain security. Being diligent when browsing the internet is a good practice; when entering any secure information, always check the URL to ensure it's a secure, encrypted connection.
