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It’s Birthday Week at VPS.NET

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Terry Myers

Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong

funny pictures birthday cat can count Its Birthday Week at VPS.NET

There are certain days bartenders look forward to. New Years Eve probably tops the list, followed closely by the Friday after Thanksgiving (At least in the USA) but there’s one day that you may not know about. June 3rd; The day of my (Terry!) birthday and the Eve of Nick’s birthday. What typically starts out as a fun get away from the office, always turns into an expensive mess. While I at least get to enjoy the benefit of a lower insurance bill thanks to turning 25, Nick doesn’t have it so good. He just got older. Granted, he’s only 364 days older than me, he’s still older and that much slower than me on the basketball court. Both of us however have survived, and thrived, and I’m pretty certain thanks to some enhanced creativity levels, come up with new ideas for VPS.NET! How many of these ideas we actually remember and then decide to be a good idea can certainly be questioned.

Recognize this little guy? We’ve ordered (I believe) 5,000 of the VPS.NET mascot stress balls. If you want one, the most fun way would be to meet up with us at HostingCon. For those of you who unfortunately won’t be able to attend, we’re cooking up a way to win one. Probably will involve some sort of fun contest, but it’s totally worth it right?

An update on the “Meet the Staff” blog post: we’re still looking for some more votes. So far Kody is winning. Based off what I know about Kody, it’d definitely be a fun and interesting interview, but lets see if we can get a few more votes. Give him a little competition!

We’ve released a new Cloud Linux template, with the release of 5.5 x64. All the versions you’re used to (Basic, Apache only, MySQL only, LAMP, LAMP w/ cPanel & ISP Manager) are all there. Go check it out; a lot of users are making the migration from CentOS to Cloud Linux, so it’s definitely become a fan favorite here at VPS.NET.

That’s all I have for you this week. Definitely keep in touch with us on the forums and through the VPS.NET Twitter. We enjoy hearing from you, so don’t be shy!

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Moving to the Cloud: Part 1 – How many nodes do I need?

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Terry Myers

One of the most commonly asked questions we receive prior to the client signing up, is “How many nodes will my site require?” Unfortunately we don’t have a 3 step mathematical equation to figure out exactly what you need, but using your traffic figures, your current hosting arrangement and expected growth we can pretty easily figure that out.

Most sites coming from a shared server really only need a couple of nodes. Something to keep in mind with a shared server is your site is sharing resources with every other site on the server, so while 600 MHZ may not seem like a lot, it may in fact be significantly more than your site is currently using. If your site is only hosting images, HTML pages, and some downloads, typically 1 node is all you need. The static files (thankfully) don’t use a whole lot of processing power, requiring the web server to only send out the data.

However, if your site using dynamic content containing programming languages like CGI, PHP, Ruby, with some sort of database backend, then we typically recommend the client go with at least 2 nodes. The processing of the files, while also requiring data from a database just requires a little bit more power… and we enjoying delivering it.

If your site is coming from another VPS provider or from a Dedicated Server, one of the first recommendations we make is to match up the CPU & RAM levels. So if you currently have a server with a 2.4 GHZ Processor and a 1 GB of Ram, you’d likely want to go with 4 nodes, which would actually give you 500 MBs of additional RAM for growth.

Are there any sites you can’t handle? Certainly a site like CNN.Com would be difficult, but through the power of our cloud VPS servers, and CDN hosting, it’ll be quite difficult to give us something we can’t handle. We enjoy the challenge of handling the growing the site, so if you have a site that needs a host, get in touch. More than likely we have what you need.

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VPS.NET in the clouds!

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Terry Myers

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It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done a “weekly” update here at VPS.NET. I promise you, the lack of updates certainly had nothing to do with the recent release of Red Dead Redemption. Purely coincidence.

The curious ones out there are probably wondering why the title of this weekly update is “VPS.NET in the clouds.” I have the answer for you. Oleh, our Support Manager, had this picture of him taken recently. Military fatigues and VPS.NET gear – that’s right, we do it hardcore! Please also remind me to never crack a joke at Oleh’s expense. Pretty sure he’ll snap me like a twig. Nick, sorry buddy, looks like you’re still the target of choice!

We’re also proud to announce that Slackware 13.0 is available for use on VPS.NET. You can find them in the Beta templates section; you have the options of the basic OS installation, MySQL only, Apache Only, or Apache, PHP and MySQL. This means you now have 9 different choices for operating systems at VPS.NET. Rumor has it a *TENTH* is real close to being released in beta… feel free to guess at which OS that is

For those of you who end up getting hit by Digg, SlashDot, Buzz, or any of those other sites that love to kill servers, you’ll be happy to hear of our new auto scaling feature. If you’re a ServerDensity user, you can sign up for auto scaling, which will automatically monitor your server for increased traffic levels (and thereby CPU & RAM usage). If it detects that additional nodes are needed, they’ll be automagically added to your account avoiding any unnecessary downtime for your site. Social media doesn’t have anything on VPS.NET users!

We announced this one on the blog earlier already, but in case you missed it, nodes are now billed by the minute. This means that if you purchase a node, and use it for a 20 days, you will be credited for the remaining time left in the month. The credit can then be used for future VPS.NET services, whether it be for your nodes, addon services or CDN purchases. This one is a feature that our resellers were virtually screaming for, so I’m sure you all out there who resell the VPS.NET services greatly appreciate this. If you’re interested in reselling our services, definitely contact us; our resellers benefit from the additional profit stream of offering Cloud VPS Services and CDN services, without any upfront expenses.

Finally, we’ve moved the VPS.NET website over to SoftLayer’s (A UK2.NET strategic partner) Washington DC location. This makes it much easier for us to use their anycast DNS features, along with giving us the ability to give updates in case we ever have any problems with our cloud servers.

Let us be your blog host! (and a small rant about traditional journalism)

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Terry Myers

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m a huge fan of RSS Feeds. I subscribe to over 200 different RSS feeds, none of them are traditional media sources, like the Wall Street Journal, or the New York Times. Instead, sites like Politics Daily, Hacking NetFlix, and TheNextWeb make up my reading list. Traditional media is just slow, out dated, and fails to connect with anything that I feel is important today. We don’t just read and write blogs though at VPS.NET; we’re experts at blog hosting.

We’ve helped many users, such as AdrianWarnock.com and WooThemes.com setup a lightning fast cloud hosting arrangement, that not only works for what their current needs are, but is easily scalable for future growth. The cloud gives you that power of easy scalability, as you can add resources on demand. The other advantage is if you get a burst of visitors, daily nodes are always available with prices starting at a dollar a day.

There’s a number of solutions we can offer you for your needs. Besides the cloud, we also have FusionIO, which is the high performance, solid state hard drive system which I’ve been raving about for weeks now. Then we have the power of two content distribution networks, in Highwinds & Akamai. Finally, we have our expertise; allow us to setup APC, and W3 Total Cache for you.

So, if you have a growing blog, get in touch; we have a solution for you!

Also, we’re looking for feedback on where we should put our new cloud. We want your vote!

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The Advantages of a Cloud VPS over a Reseller Account for a small web host

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Terry Myers

When I first dabbled into web hosting in 2001 there was a new craze starting: reseller accounts. People could now start their own web hosting business with only a minimal up front investment. Web hosting became a cash crop of web hosts running out of their parent’s basement. Since that time reseller accounts have improved, and have grown cheaper with enormous amounts of resources given. More importantly (for us!) virtualization technology was adapted for use in the web hosting environment, bringing about virtual private servers (VPS).

Let me first explain how shared hosting works, what a virtual private server is, and then how a cloud virtual private server from VPS.NET differs.

What is shared hosting?
Imagine you’re a resident of an apartment complex. All of you live in the same building, share the same resources like electricity, gas, and water. Shared hosting a lot like that. On a shared hosting account, multiple websites are all placed on the same server. Those websites then share all the resources the server has to offer, like CPU, Memory, Disk Space, Disk I/O and the internet connection. Each user placed on the server is typically given login to the server, with limited privileges. The privileges typically include the ability to create new email addresses, MySQL databases, and then the ability to upload your files through an FTP server.

What does a reseller account get you?
A reseller account works the same way as shared hosting. You’re still limited to a certain amount of resources as defined by your hosting account, and you still share all the resources available with every other site on the server. The difference is you’re given a login to an administrative panel; for a cPanel based server, this login gives you access to WHM (Web Host Manager). Inside the administrative panel you’re able to setup new accounts, so each website can have it’s own individual account. As well, this administrative login (typically) gives you access to monitor each individual account.

How does a VPS solve these problems?
A VPS gives you all the benefits of a dedicated server; you get administrative access, meaning you have the capability to login to the root of the server and make any necessary modifications. Whether it be installing a certain piece of software, or tweaking the configuration, you have the ability to do it.

Getting back to the apartment to metaphor that I used to describe shared hosting, with a VPS server imagine that you’re still in that same apartment building, only anything your neighbors do, has zero effect on you. Because each VPS installation sits in it’s own environment on a server, as a separate operating installation, the users you’re sharing a server with can’t bring down, or get your site hacked. It’s more secure, and reliable.

So how does a cloud VPS up that?
The fundamental problem with a VPS is that users are still being placed amongst one server, meaning if there is a hardware failure, all the users located on the server are still going to experience downtime while the hardware is replaced. The way a Cloud VPS Server beats that is multiple servers are “clustered” together to a create of servers sharing all the work. This means that if one server experiences a hardware failure, the other servers in the cloud will take over the work the failed server was doing with only minimal effects. The 2nd benefit is the cloud allows users to scale much easier, as additional servers can be added to the cluster, expanding the cloud, allowing users to easily upgrade their resource allocation.

Tell me, how is a Cloud VPS going to help be successful?
Simple, a Cloud VPS has 4 unique and significant advantages over a reseller account.

Security
Because of a VPS server has it’s own unique operating system installation, and you’re not relying on a server-wide security policy, your Cloud VPS server is going to be more secure than a reseller account. You know the sites you host – you’re able to implement a security policy that is catered towards your specific needs. As well, you’re not dependent on other users updating their script installations. A user who consistently fails to upgrade their forum on a reseller account is a security risk to you; that’s not the case with a cloud VPS.

Reliability
Much like security, reliability works the same way – what your neighbors do affects you! If a site is overloaded with traffic, the entire server is going to be overloaded with traffic. If a site has a poorly configured script causing memory leaks, the entire server is going to run slower, meaning your site loads slower. With a VPS, because all the resources that are given are guaranteed, your hosting experience is going to be much predictable and pleasant.

Freedom
With a reseller account, you’re stuck running the software your host wants. With a VPS you have administrative access; choose the OS of your choice, choose the control panel you like, choose whether you want to run Apache or Lightspeed. You have those options with a VPS, allowing you full control over your hosting experience.

Scalability
The scalability that a Cloud VPS & VPS.NET offers you is unmatched. With our cluster of servers, you’re able to scale to having the power of multiple servers almost instantly. In addition to the cluster, VPS.NET has two content distribution networks, with Highwinds and Akamai. Both of these networks can handle millions of hits per minute, meaning there is almost no site that VPS.NET can’t handle.

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Addon Services Available

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Terry Myers

One of the great things at VPS.NET (At least I think so) is the number of addon services that are available to you. Whether it be control panels, software, hardware, and so on, we’ve tried to bring you a number of different options so you’re able to configure a setup that works for your needs and caters to your business. And as we grow, we’re continuously adding new services to keep up with the demands of our clients. Because of this, there may be a lot of people out there who may be unaware of some new cool services we’ve added.

Control Panels

cPanel – cPanel is likely the most recognizable control panel available on the market today. cPanel provides a front end interface to manage your websites files, email address, mysql databases, and many other tasks. Along with the client side management, cPanel also comes with the WHM (Web Hosting Manager) interface, which provides an interface to for server administrators and resellers to perform many different tasks, such as setting up new websites, updating Apache, and other server-side software. Each cPanel license is $10 per month.

ISPManager - ISPManager is a low resource consuming control panel software with a multi-level user system. It provides a graphical interface for server administrators, resellers and individual clients. Like cPanel, you have the ability to administrate certain functions of the web server, and each individual website. ISPManager licenses are available free at VPS.NET.

DirectAdmin – DirectAdmin provides a GUI for managing both your server and your website, while consuming minimal resources. DirectAdmin provides access for administrators, resellers, and individual users. DirectAdmin is $10 a month.

Server Administration

Pro-active, Fully Managed Administration – We realize not everyone wants to worry about their server – they want to worry about their website. We offer a fully managed hosting solution where we’ll handle the migration of your website to VPS.NET, the initial VPS server setup, and then monthly security overhauls to make sure everything is running properly. With this, we also offer a 100% SLA. This solution is available for $99 a month with a $45 setup fee.

On Demand Server Administration - In addition to the fully managed solution, we have on demand administration that you’re able to use when you run into a problem. On demand administration is good for kernel upgrades, PHP/Perl Installation and Configuration, Control Panel Installation and Configuration, Backup/Migration Assistance, Software Installation or Web Server Assistance. On Demand tickets are $10 each and last for 24 hours.

Server Monitoring

Server Density – Server Density is an addon tool that allows you to easily monitor your server for abnormalities through your email and/or your iPhone. Inside of Server Density you’re able to track CPU Load, Memory Utilization, processes, disk usage, network traffic, and apache & nginx status. Server Density is available for $7.50 a month.

DotDefender - DotDefender is a software that monitors and logs your servers traffic, detecting any suspicious traffic activity. DotDefender is capable of running a website specific rule set, limiting the number of false intrusion detection attempts. DotDefender licenses are available for $15 a month.

Backups

Snapshot Backups – Snapshot backups are easy and effective. Using snapshot backups, VPS.NET will take a”snapshot” of your VPS node once a day, every day, and at the end of the month will retain one daily, one weekly, one monthly and then a day of your choice for backup. When restoring, individual files cannot be restored. We can only restore an entire backup. Snapshot backups are available for $5 a month.

Rsync Backups – With Rsync backups, we give you offsite backup space capable of backing up your entire VPS Node. You’re then able to use Rsync, Duplicity, or any other backup script available to automatically backup your VPS. With Rsync you’re able to restore individual files. Rsync backups are $5 a month.

R1Soft Backups – R1Soft backups are the “enterprise” version of our backup solutions, with continuos data protection through a graphical interface. Multiple copies of individual files are kept on hand and can be restored as necessary. R1Soft has a license charge of $15 per month.

Control Panel Addons

Softaculous – Softaculous is a script auto-installer that has a repository of over 130 commonly installed website scripts. It integrates directly in with both cPanel & ISPManager. Licensing is available at $9 a year.

Rvskin - The Rvskin set “beautifies” cPanel, offering you 2 additional skins in 7 different colors. Even more advantageous is the Rvskin set is available in 25 different languages. Rvskin is only available for users running cPanel and is $18 a year.

Misc.

Lightspeed Web Server – LiteSpeed Web Server is the leading high-performance, high-scalability web server. It is completely Apache interchangeable so LiteSpeed Web Server can quickly replace a major bottleneck in your existing web delivery platform. Litespeed is a drop in replacement for Apache on cPanel servers. Lightspeed licenses are only available for users running cPanel and can be purchased for $14 a month.

CodeBase – Codebase is a source code hosting and project management platform. While a CodeBase account usually runs you $79 a year, VPS.NET subscribers are able to get one free of charge.

FusionIO Node - FusionIO is solid state, high performance database hosting solution. With the solid state technology, your databases are able to be transferred and processed significantly faster, dramatically speeding up dynamic content driven websites. FusionIO nodes are available in both Atlanta and London and are $50 for every 2 Gigabytes of Storage Space.

HostBill – For company’s out there selling web hosting services off of our VPS Nodes, I highly recommend you look into HostBill. It’s a great client management system, with payment gateway support, and a complete support suite. Best of all, it’s available free of charge at VPS.NET.

Storage Upgrades, HostBill and everything else that happened this week!

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Terry Myers

I’m not sure how, but apparently it’s that time again! Time flies when you’re having fun. Lets wrap up the week with a round up of everything that happened here in the VPS.NET this week.

Before we even talk about VPS.NET though, lets talk about the big tech news that happened this week. Gizmodo was able to get their hands on the next generation of the iPhone, after a developer left it at a bar! Nick and I were discussing this as it happened, and we both decided we definitely do not want to be in that developers shoes, especially knowing how Steve Jobs is. There are however some people claiming that Apple intentionally “lost” the iPhone at the bar in order to get the hype machine rolling. With the amount of press coverage this received, I do believe this puts the iPhone on the same level as Angelina Jolie, Madonna & Tiger Woods.

The big news here at VPS.NET is the ability to upgrade your nodes without having to upgrade your storage, which means that you won’t need to rebuild the disk for your Cloud VPS, the most time consuming part of the process. 30 second upgrade. Instead this allows you to schedule any storage upgrades to take place at the most convenient time for you or until you need it to be done. Once the upgrade goes through, you’ll only need to reboot your VPS. One of the key things this does is it makes us much more competitive with dedicated server providers. We’re already able to offer a significant amount of CPU Power, RAM, Bandwidth and Disk Space, but now you’re able to start out small, and continue to build up as your company does, without having the down time of manual hardware swaps.

The other news which I hope you all have already taken advantage of, is the ability to get a free HostBill license. HostBill is a complete web hosting management system, which I went over in full detail here. If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, I encourage you to do so at www.hostbillapp.com/vps.net/.

Besides bringing out some new software updates and services for you, the guys over in the London datacenter were able to get a new FusionIO cloud up for use. We highly recommend anyone with a MySQL driven site to offload their databases onto a FusionIO node, and experience ridiculously fast website loading times. FusionIO is based on high speed solid state drives, and makes read/write times blazing fast. FusionIO nodes are available in London and Atlanta now, and are $50 for every 2 Gigabytes of Storage Space.

The forums continue to pick up in traffic, which is great to see. Our goal is to build a strong community here, and I think we’re off to a great start. Some hot threads this week are:

Config: rewrite and .htaccess

HostBill – VPS.NET branding

Anyone use Akamai on Demand Streaming?

I also wanted to point everyone out to an awesome site we advertise on, WebResourcesDepot, which offers free tips and tricks for webmasters. They have a pretty cool post up right now about making your AJAX content crawlable by web spiders. Highly recommend everyone check it out, especially for those of you where your search engine position is important (and I think that might be all of us).

Anyhow, I’m off for the week. More than likely I’m going to be spending a lot of time doing this (yes that is me!).

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End of the work week round up!

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Terry Myers

While the work week technically never ends here at VPS.NET, today seems like a good day to post a quick round up of everything we’ve accomplished this week!

Our new Chicago Cloud Server location is online. It’s located at the stunning Dupont Fabros Technology data center. This brings our total number of Chicago clouds to 3. In addition to the new Chicago cloud, our new London cloud went live yesterday, bringing the total there to 3 as well. The London cloud is located in the UK2Group datacenter, which is the same location as the prior 2. For those curious, besides the Chicago and London locations, we also have 2 located in Atlanta, Georgia, and 1 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The new license manager module is now available in the VPS.NET control panel. You can find it under the “Edit this VPS” option. The license manager allows you to manage each of your software licenses purchased through VPS.NET, which includes cPanel, ISPManager, ServerDensity, RVSkin, Softaculous, LiteSpeed, and soon KSplice and DirectAdmin.

We’ve also released a few more banner advertisements and buttons for your websites. We now have both US & UK banners and buttons available. These are great for those who participate in our affiliate program. If you’re not already an affiliate, check out my post from earlier this week on why you should be and how to implement it on your site. As someone who’s been building websites since the ’90s, I can honestly say I really haven’t ever seen an affiliate program that pays out as well as the one we have going on here.

In addition to our announcements, the activity on the VPS.NET forums is really starting to pick up. Some hot posts this week are:

VPS.NET Module for HostBill [Official Release]

How to get Akamai on Demand Streaming to work

PHP Mail() not working

New Blog

A friend sent me a link to a Gizmodo article titled, “Google’s insane number of servers visualized.” They created an image to show how many servers Google has in comparison to other companies, and it’s truly impressive. It, unfortunately, doesn’t take into account the processing power of each of those servers, but it’s still fascinating to see.

That’s all for me this week. Hope you all enjoy the weekend – it’s looking like it’s going to be a gloomy one here in Cleveland, so I guess it’ll be what I call a “Netflix weekend” for me!

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Introducing CloudLinux on the Cloud

Posted on February 19, 2010 by NullMind

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VPS.NET has partnered with CloudLInux OS to bring the the only commercially supported OS designed specifically for the service provider market to the VPS Cloud.

CloudLinux

Resource isolation via LVE Technology
LVE Technology prevents individual websites from using too many resources
LVE Technology provides better security and protects servers from issues that drain resources for other tenants.
Single website cannot overload the server
Allows you to fit more sites on one server
Lowers risk, increases efficiency and improves server performance

CloudLInux is a perfect OS for Web Hosting providers, coupled with the flexibility of the VPS.NET Cloud it makes for a perfect combo for your clients.

CloudLInux on VPS.NET is priced at $7 per month (50% off the standard $14/mo pricing), and as a released special, clients can deploy CloudLinux for FREE until June 1st.

Additional information on our CloudLinux images can be found at the Wiki.

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Cloudkick & VPS.NET

Posted on January 26, 2010 by NullMind

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Cloudkick, the award-winning Web application for easy and efficient cloud server management, publicly launched its full-featured commercial product today, which includes support for VPS.NET servers.

Cloudkick tackles the growing complexity system administrators face when deploying cloud servers – especially when using more than one provider. The company’s unified dashboard brings together the monitoring and management of cloud-based servers across multiple providers no matter how large or diverse the deployment.

Cloudkick offers a FREE developer plan includes unlimited basic nodes, basic monitors, 1 user, 1 week data, email alerts, wiki support, it’s a great plan for those wishing to test the solution.

Please visit https://www.cloudkick.com/providers/vpsnet/ for more information

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