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VPS.net announces more power and more elasticity to the cloud

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VPS.net announced today significant improvements to its cloud server offerings. In the announcement, the company stated its goal with the improvements and new products was to deliver an enhanced value for the customer. The company first announced that it has doubled the amount of dedicated CPU, now giving customers 1.2 GHz of power, compared to the previous 600 MHz.

The company also announced users are now able to create an unlimited amount of custom templates, which can be used for their new clone and deploy tool. The unlimited templates, used with the clone and deploy tool allows users to rapidly deploy customized operating system templates throughout the entire VPS.net with manual intervention.

Finally, coupled with all of this VPS.net has launched is elastic VPS. Offering the flexibility of its market defining auto-scaling, with the ability to allow a VPS to grow and shrink as needed, but at a single fixed price. With the elastic VPS, users no longer need to worry about unexpected sky high hosting bills. The elastic VPS offers a flexible hosting solution, but at a fixed rate.

“These upgrades, and new features are the biggest sweeping change VPS.net has ever made to its product offering in one go", said Rus Foster, Managing Director of VPS.net.

Rus also added, “With the elastic VPS option, there are no more worries about unexpected or high bills for users. With a simple flat pricing model the user knows their system can add on resources as required without worrying about downtime or the cost.”

The new improvements and products are available as of today from VPS.net.

VPS.NET first to Join CloudLinux Preferred Partner Program

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CloudLinux Announces Preferred Partner Program

VPS.net first to join initiative

ANN ARBOR, Mich., November 22, 2011 -- CloudLinux, Inc., developers of the only commercially-supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, today announced its Preferred Partner Program with VPS.net the first to join.

VPS.net, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with operations and data centers all over the world, is part of UK2 Group, which provides web hosting and Internet services to a million customers worldwide. With offices in London and Utah, the UK2 Group employs more than 200 staff. VPS.net provides a high-performance, optimized and scalable cloud hosting service, which includes the CloudLinux OS, which it offers to all of its customers worldwide.

As a Preferred Partner, VPS.net and CloudLinux will do joint marketing and sales while VPS.net will have special access to technical resources. Additionally, VPS.net will host CloudLinux repositories allowing for exceptionally fast and reliable updates for VPS.net customers using CloudLinux software.

“The combination of CloudLinux OS with service from VPS.net gives shared hosters ready access to deliver to their customers,” said Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux CEO. “The enhanced security and stability offered by CloudLinux OS provides an unmatched experience for shared hosting customers and is proven on over 5,000 production servers running CloudLinux OS.”

"The opportunity to expand our relationship with CloudLinux made perfect sense for us,” said Terry Myers, chief evangelist, VPS.net. “They deliver a product that is in high demand from our customer base and offer an innovative solution addressing common problems faced in shared hosting environments."

CloudLinux cages each user account within its own Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE), allowing system administrators to limit CPU, memory, and concurrent connections available to each tenant. LVE effectively prevents the, “bad neighbor effect,” wherein one tenant can slow or take down an entire server. By limiting abuse, shared hosters can substantially increase server density, bringing far greater efficiency to their business.

Also, CloudLinux OS includes MySQL Governor, which enables tight control over the MySQL resources available to users, and will soon release CageFS, the industry’s only virtualized file system for shared hosters. CageFS assures that user files are only available to, and viewable by, their owner. CloudLinux also offers the fastest updates in the industry, with professional support available 24/7.

About CloudLinux, Inc.

By providing expertise in the areas of hosting, kernel and open source, CloudLinux serves the specific needs of those in the web hosting industry. Founded in 2009, CloudLinux is privately funded and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

CloudLinux has been recognized as a leader in the industry and received numerous awards. Twice, CloudLinux has been listed as a top 10 cloud provider by HostReview. Also, CloudLinux received the Editor’s Choice Award by Web Host Magazine & Buyer’s Guide.