We know lots of our customers like using the VPS.net infrastructure for VPN’ing. Sometimes however it can be a little hard to setup, not quite work with your setup or generally have a barrier to entry thats a bit higher than you want. We are pleased to announce however that we now have VPN support built right into the VPS.net control panel.

A VPN is great for securing your connection if you are on an untrusted network, e.g. a coffee shop or an open network and want to make sure that you information stays safe. We are offering the VPN free for the first month for all VPS.net customers! Setup is as always simple to do.

Simply goto the VPN section of your control panel. Click “Create New Account” and select the location of the VPN you want, the type you want (If not sure choose PPTP) and click “Confirm”.

If you need help installing and setting up your VPN then you can contact support@vps.net and we will be more than happy to get you going.

Are you the lucky owner of an exclusive and awesome VPS.NET robot? We’re looking to put together a compilation of the “robot army” doing what they’re best at; travelling the world, and making sure work is getting done!

You can either email the photos to terry@vps.net or tweet us with a picture of them. Credit will be given, so include your name and your twitter handle if you’d like some free promotion!

With 6 locations throughout the world, choosing the perfect one to house your VPS can be a little over whelming. We’ve chosen 6 geographically diverse locations that allow our customers to place their VPS in the location best fitting their site and their visitors. In total, VPS.NET offers you the ability to create a Cloud VPS in 3 locations in the United States, with Atlanta, Chicago and Salt Lake City. 2 in the Europe, with London and Amsterdam and 1 in Asia, in Tokyo, Japan. Each of these locations offer their own unique benefits. We’ll explain a bit more about each location.

Atlanta, Georgia – Our Atlanta data center, located at 34 Peachtree Drive, makes for a great location for your VPS, if you have visitors located throughout the United States and in South America. Our Atlanta VPS Servers are great, as they’re just one hop away from the largest exchange point for South American traffic, Miami, Florida, guarantees minimal latency and limited amount of hops required for traffic to reach its destination.

Chicago, Illinois - Our Cloud in the windy city is located at the Dupont Fabros Technology data center, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, a suburb just outside of Chicago. Dupont Fabros Technology (DFT) is a publicly traded real estate investment company, that specializes in building and operating data centers throughout the world. Chicago is one of the main internet hubs throughout the United States and world. Being located in the central United States, Chicago makes for a great location for your Cloud VPS, if you have visitors located in the United States and Canada. Additionally, due to minimal latency to New York City, forex traders have experienced a great amount of success using our Chicago location for their VPS. A Chicago VPS Server is a great place for any SMB looking to launch their online presence.

Salt Lake City, Utah - Dubbed the “new Silicon Valley” Salt Lake City is the location of our final cloud in the United States. Located at the C7 Data center in Provo, Utah, Salt Lake City offers tremendous connectivity to the West Coast United States, Australia and New Zealand, while also being able to serve visitors located throughout Asia.

London, England - Located in London, England at the UK2Group (our parent company) data center, our London location is one of tremendous pride. With connectivity to LINX, the 3rd largest peering exchange point, London makes for powerful hosting presence throughout Europe and the East Coast United States. If your site has traffic from throughout the world, London is one of the places you could pick for your VPS.

Haarlem, Netherlands (Amsterdam) – Our Amsterdam cloud is located inside the Evoswitch data center, which features connectivity to AMS-IX, the 2nd largest exchange point in the world. Amsterdam makes for a great alternative to London, still having the powerful connectivity to allow for fast access times throughout Europe and the United States. Not only is our Amsterdam data center fast, but it’s also entirely carbon neutral!

Tokyo, Japan – Our cloud in Tokyo is our newest location, and is housed at the Equinix data center in Tokyo, Japan. Our Tokyo location makes us one of the first cloud hosting providers to have a location in Asia, without any kind of additional surcharge. Tokyo allows you to create a VPS that has extremely fast access times throughout all of Asia while also adequately serving visitors from other parts of the world.

All of our data centers repeatedly undergo thorough quality checks to assure that we’re using the best data centers available. If you’re still not sure which data center is best for you, you can try out our ping and speed test tool at www.cloudtestfiles.net. Alternatively, you can contact us and we’d be glad to help.

We know that our customers are what make VPS.NET great. And while we’d love to catch up over a few drinks, we also know you’re busy. We’ve scheduled a townhall through web-based chat to take place October 4th at 9AM MDT (3PM GMT). All our current, potential and previous customers are encouraged to stop by and have a friendly chat with the staff. You can ask those questions that have been bugging you or just find out what exclusive new things we have coming up.

There is no registration required. You’re simply able to login to the chat athttps://uk2group1.campfirenow.com/0cef0, which will be activated 30 minutes before the session is scheduled to start.

Recovery Mode
Yesterday we quietly rolled out a new feature dubbed recovery mode. This is a great feature that’ll help limit downtime and prevent data loss. What it does it allows you to boot your VPS with a fresh OS install, on a completely separate hard drive than your primary. This allows you to run file system checks (FSCKs), without needing intervention, recover data from file system corruptions, and gives you many other administration tools previously unavailable.

This option is available to all clients on our OnApp based clouds. If you’re currently on a Radar based cloud, this feature will not be available to you immediately however we will be rolling it out in the coming months.

Educators and non-profits
We know that living in a world with higher literacy rates is better for everyone and we also know that technology plays a large part in that. VPS.NET is delighted to be able to offer educators and non-profit organizations unique tools that can be used in a wide variety of applications to help the advancement of technology in society. Whether it be allowing high school or university students to apply techniques in a hands on environment or showing them a quick and easy way to launch their site, we’re proud to be able to help.

If you’re unable to view the YouTube video, you can also view it here.

Reselling
We have some new fantastic reseller offerings which are unlike anything else on the market. Of course we give you a discount on our standard pricing but coupled with that we provide our proprietary reseller desktop from where you can manage all your customers, handle support and billing from a single login. If you would like to see what value added services we can offer to your business please drop resellers@vps.net an email and we can get you started.

We are please to announce the new beta of our Japan VPS cloud. We are offering old and new customers up to 9 beta nodes for free to test out the location.

Highlights include:

- The fastest, most technically advanced enterprise class SAN within all of our clouds

- Full support for Windows and Linux

- Full OnApp 2.2 support will be enabled during the beta

- Its Free!

To build your own free VPS login to https://control.vps.net and select “Create a New VPS” and Select “Beta Nodes”

Fill out the name you want to use for the server and any backup options you would like to use. Make sure that your select the Tokyo clouds as this is the only place the free/beta nodes will work.

Now select create and wait for your fresh VPS to be delivered We are very interested to hear what people think about this new cloud. Please send any feedback to mgmt@vps.net. We will also be testing the new infrastructure and its failover setup during this period so please be aware of this. It is BETA, comes with no warranty, might cause your dog to fly or your trousers to fall down in a comedic fashion. We do not recommend this for production purposes until the end of the beta.