All articles in the ‘VPS’ category

An inside view of VPS – from the people who made it

As part of the Happy Birthday VPS celebrations this week, we decided to give you an insider’s view of our virtual private server platform, including the biggest highlights and challenges in getting it set up.Like all our projects, our virtual...

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...

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...