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By Craig Cotter

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Happy Birthday VPS!

This week marks a landmark occasion - a year since we first launched the Heart Internet VPS platform! We’ll be celebrating throughout the week across the blog and social media, so drop us a tweet or a Facebook post and...

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By Ricky Hayes

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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...

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By Ricky Hayes

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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...

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By Matthew Telfer

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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...

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By Craig Cotter

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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...

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By Ricky Hayes

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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...

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By Jenni Brown

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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•...

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By Jenni Brown

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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...

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