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What Goes into Building a Cloud Data Center?

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Over the last several years, interest in cloud hosting, particularly Virtual Private Servers (VPS), has shot upwards —reflecting a keen understanding that a VPS offers considerable advantages over both shared hosting while limiting the complexity that’s present on a dedicated server.


Further, the utility pricing model and ability to exploit root access to launch custom software, gives growing websites and e-commerce shops the ability to scale quickly without the restrictions present on a shared platform.

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Refer somebody to VPS.NET and make $85

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How would you like to make a cool $85 USD just by referring a friend or a site's visitor to VPS.NET?

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You can !, just signup at our sister affiliate site Aff.biz, once you are setup, you get a tracking link you can place on your website, forum signatures or your email to friends, anybody who clicks it and signs for a new VPS.NET account becomes a contender for you to receive $85, all they have to do is stay for more than one month, when they renew the second month, we send you your money icon smile Refer somebody to VPS.NET and make $85

It could not be any easier, just another way for VPS.NET to thank you for helping us grow.

Also worth noticing, you do not have to be a VPS.NET customer to signup for this plan.

Review VPS.net and get Free Hosting

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As VPS.NET breaks the 1000 nodes barrier in less than one month, we are thankful to all the users who have spread the word and told their friends and family about us, without you we could have not done it.

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We want to show you guys our gratitude by giving you one month of free hosting (max 3 nodes) for every review you write about vps.net on established forums/blogs/etc (one per blog/forum/etc).

The terms are as follows:

  • Review must be an original post (not a blog/forum reply)
  • Review must not be placed on commercial offers forums and blogs
  • Review must conform to the blog/forum TOS
  • Reviewer must have an account with VPS.NET

I want to emphasize that we are looking for *real* reviews, not just praises - so, please be as honest as possible when reviewing us. Spread the word - but be truthful to the experience you've had at VPS.NET...

The way we will monitor the review is via twitter (as we have it on our homepage), so to qualify you simply write your honest review, and submit a twitter post that incl. the url to the review and 'vps.net' and then submit a ticket with the same info! ...

Thanks for your support - we really appreciate it!

New Feature: Scheduled Bursts

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Today we have launched a new featured for VPS.NET, "Scheduled Bursts"

With this new feature, you are now able to schedule a burst of nodes to your VPS for when you need it, and only pay for those nodes on a daily rate of $1 (£1 in UK) per node.

So how does it work? Simple on your VPS view you now have this new Tab:

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Inside it you are able to schedule a "Burst" of nodes for that VPS, there are 2 kinds of bursts, "temporary" and "permanent"

On temporary you can select to add a number of nodes to your VPS at a certain date and time and keep it there for a determined period of days, with this choice, you are charged $1 USD / £1 GBP per day per node you are using extra, at the end of the period those nodes will simply go away.

On permanent, you can schedule your VPS to be upgraded to a certain number of nodes, the nodes will be permanently added to your account and assigned to the VPS, you can at a later date remove them if you wish, those nodes are charged at the standard monthly rates.

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Once assigned you are able to quickly view upcoming scheduled upgrades, you can also remove any scheduled upgrades before they occur and not be charged for it, charing only happens when the upgrade runs.

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Why this feature one might ask ?, there are many instances when your VPS might need that extra resource boost, a good example for a temporary boost is used on these screenshots, say you have a mailing-list to send to your customers, notifying of something new or a special on your website, it can be a good idea to boost your VPS resources to coincide with the mailing-list so you can ensure your site wont be overloaded when that sudden influx of visitors comes to your website.

As for permanent, if you know you will need more resources from a certain date onwards, you can now schedule your upgrades so your not paying for the period before when you dont yet need it, it's just piece of mind and another way VPS.NET shows how flexible our system is.

In the near future we will be adding "Recurring Scheduled Bursts", so you can set temporary boosts on a recurring fashion.

Keep looking for many more great features, we keep working to amaze you. icon smile New Feature: Scheduled Bursts

 

Price… at last!

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Since we open up the VPS.NET Cloud for beta testing, people have send dozens of emails asking "What about the price ...?"

Coming up with a proper price was no simple task, we had to take in consideration many factors, such as all the cost to deploy a VPS in a Cloud environment, with proper fail-over redundancy and RAID-10 SAN back-ends .. those dont come cheap icon wink Price... at last! , but at the same time, we wanted to make it competitive enough against standard VPS offerings (server based) that are deployed by a fraction of the price of the Cloud ... quite a task indeed.

We hope the users will see the value of the product and find the price to be quite a bargain for this type of system icon smile Price... at last!

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As per request, the more you purchase, the larger the savings icon smile Price... at last!

One day to go!

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I have received some emails from Beta testers asking or their signup information, it seems it's not just us who are getting excited, they cant wait to get into the VPS Cloud and start playing icon wink One day to go!

Almost there .. one more day and we will be sending the signup info and unique beta codes, but from those of us internally that have already setup some VPS Nodes ... trust me, the wait is worthed it, you will love it !!

Sweet, Sweet Speed from the VPS Cloud!

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We where just doing a few speed tests from within a VPS on the cloud, seeing that the entire network is Gbit based, we expected to see speeds above 100Mps .. and we did icon wink Sweet, Sweet Speed from the VPS Cloud!

root@my:~# wget http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso

--15:35:17-- http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso

=> `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso'

Resolving mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net... 93.89.90.2

Connecting to mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net|93.89.90.2|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 652,449,792 (622M) [application/x-iso9660-image]

100%[======================================================================================================>] 652,449,792 18.87M/s ETA 00:00

15:35:47 (21.26 MB/s) - `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso' saved [652449792/652449792]

Thats 210Mps ... sweeet icon smile Sweet, Sweet Speed from the VPS Cloud!

Final VPS Cloud Hardware Started to Arrive in UK and USA

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We are not just building one VPS cloud .. no, that would be too easy, instead we are building 2 of them, a UK VPS Cloud and a US VPS Cloud.

One will be located in our Utah Datacenter in the USA (home of Westhost, named one of the most reliable hosting companies by Netcraft), the second will reside on our London, UK Datacenter.

Until now we have been working on the VPS Cloud with "temporary" hardware, but with the date of our beta closing in, the final hardware has begun to arrive, today we got to see some of it in the UK office.

Now bare in mind, the hardware costs for the VPS cloud are higher than many smaller companies gross in an entire year, so to see this array of top notch hardware come thru the door, well .. lets just say some bibs where in order to contain the drool icon smile Final VPS Cloud Hardware Started to Arrive in UK and USA

Beta Testers Wanted.

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We have started taking registrations for the VPS.NET Beta Testing Program.

We will start the program in January, participation will be limited to 50 users so make sure to register now for a better chance of a spot icon smile Beta Testers Wanted.

You can enroll at this page http://vps.net/signup-for-beta-testing/

There are the usual requirements (listed on the signup page), basically acknowledgment that the Beta system is not to be used for abuse, but above all, we need participants who can give us lots of feedback, VPS experience is not a must, we are hoping for all levels of experience, from those who never used a VPS and can give us feedback on the intuitiveness of the system, to those who can compile a VPS Kernel while taking a shower and eating a hot dog (now that's muti-tasking) icon wink Beta Testers Wanted.