All articles in the ‘VPS’ category

VPS and qemu-kvm

In this first article of a series of ‘more technical’ Heart Internet blog posts, I am going to talk a little bit about how our VPS platform is implemented, using the open source qemu-kvm virtualisation platform.What’s virtualisation?I think the best...

New Operating Systems added to our VPS

In addition to CentOS, Windows Server 2008 and Ubuntu, you can now choose to run your Heart Internet VPS using Debian 6 (Squeeze), OpenSUSE 11.4 or Fedora 17.Fedora 17Fedora VPS Hosting offers the stability of RHEL with an easy to...

New one click install scripts added to VPS

We are pleased to announce we have added five new one click install scripts to our VPS. This takes our count to 20 now, and includes WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, Concrete5, and OpenCart.CMS Made SimpleCMS Made Simple helps experienced web...

Plesk Power Pack added to VPS

Plesk Power Pack is a bundle of essential resources to manage your VPS, including premium commercial anti-virus protection, tools for creating and managing mobile websites, and a GUI control panel for monitoring and managing your server from an iPhone, Android...

Important: MySQL Vulnerability

Late yesterday evening, a security flaw was discovered in MySQL’s authentication system.Without going into too much detail (links explaining the technical details of the exploit are at the end of this post), some versions of MySQL will allow a successful...

7 more new one-click installs for VPS!

Following on from the VPS one click installs we released last week, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve added seven more!The new VPS one-click installs we’ve added are:• Gallery - a user-friendly photo gallery• Mediawiki - for creating Wikipedia-style websites•...

New one click installs for VPS!

We’ve had plenty of requests for one click installs for VPS, and we’re happy to announce they are now available on Linux VPS.Use the one click installs to speed up your server configuration and ensure a no fuss, perfect installation...

New VPS API now available

We’ve updated our API documentation to include VPS functions, so you can speed up various VPS tasks such as preparing, inspecting, listing and working with servers.To view the entire API documentation, click here. Below you’ll find an overview and quick...

Selling VPS webinar: The video and the slides

Following on from the Q&A blog post, here is the video and slides from our “Selling Virtual Private Servers” webinar. If you have any topics you would like to see covered in future webinars, or you have feedback on how...

Selling VPS webinar: The questions we didn’t have time to answer

If you came to yesterday’s webinar, we hope you found it useful and interesting. We got a lot of questions at the end and unfortunately we ran out of time before we could answer them all. We took a record...