For developers, sysadmins, and technically capable businesses, an unmanaged Linux VPS offers the freedom to build exactly what you need, with none of the restrictions or overhead of managed services. You control everything, from the OS and software stack to firewall rules and performance tuning.
With Heart Internet’s unmanaged Linux VPS plans, you receive a raw, fully virtualised Linux server environment which can be tailored to your exact requirements. Giving you and your business maximum performance.
Not got the time for server admin? Explore our Fully-managed Linux VPS hosting plans.
Select your preferred OS, including Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, or CentOS. We install your chosen distro, leaving the rest to you. There’s no pre-loaded software, no unnecessary packages, and no restrictions on what you can install.
As the administrator of your VPS, you get full root access, giving you unrestricted control over system files, services, users, and network configuration. You can install and compile software from source, along with setting up custom firewalls and proxies. Giving you full control on how you would like your set up to be.
Our unmanaged Linux VPS plans are built on high-performance SSD storage with isolated resources. You’ll benefit from a super fast read and write, perfect for data heavy applications. You will also get consistent CPU and RAM allocation and a better I/O efficiency when compared to traditional HDD based hosts.
Start with the resources you need now and scale up as your requirements grow. Upgrade your RAM, vCPUs, or disk space with no data loss and minimal downtime.
While the VPS is unmanaged, you still have access to optional automated daily backups and manual snapshot tools. You control what gets backed up and when, with easy rollback functionality in case of error or corruption.
All unmanaged Linux VPS servers are hosted in our UK data centres, giving you fast, low-latency connections for the UK and EU. All of which is GDPR compliant, suypplying you with an infrastructure that is secure for data handling.
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Tailor your virtual server to suit your exact technical requirements. Choose from dependable, enterprise-level distributions like Windows, and take advantage of flexible, developer-friendly options such as our managed VPS – giving you complete control to build and configure your server exactly as you need.
With decades of hosting expertise, we've helped businesses across the UK with trusted Linux hosting solutions. Our Linux-based VPS Hosting gives you full control and flexibility — ideal for developers and businesses that want to manage their own server environment.
When you manage your own server environment, you eliminate third-party access. Combined with isolated resources and SSD performance, your projects can run faster and more securely than on traditional shared or cloud platforms.
Unlike shared hosting or pre-configured plans, an unmanaged Linux VPS gives you the power to build exactly what your project requires. You decide what is installed, which ports are open, how updates are handled and what the server runs and when. You’re not locked into default software or GUIs, and you’ll never be restricted by a control panel you don’t use.
Our unmanaged Linux VPS hosting is popular with developers for its support of modern technologies and tools. Install and configure the tools you need with no limitations or third-party restrictions.
By choosing an unmanaged VPS, you’re only paying for the raw infrastructure, not the management overhead. If you’re confident managing your own Linux environment, this is the most budget-friendly way to host high-performance workloads.
Been with Heart for 8 years. Been with lots of others too. Difference is Heart customer support is better. Lot of them are linux admins, they actually 'know' what you're on about and solve your problems rapidly. Also good value on most commodity things like VPS. so when combined with better support, is defo worth it. I would recommend.
Wth the experience, knowledge, help and patience of the people at Heart Internet they talked me through every step of moving from a shared package to one of their VPS packages. They even migrated everything from my old package for me, nothing seemed to be to much for them. They definitely went above and beyond what would be expected of any team.
Over 15 tickets have been answered so far and we always had a solution from there service staff without asking anything from us. We are no Linux guru's and even though we use a not managed server, they always helped us the best they could while in some circumstances they could have charged us extra admin fee but they did not. For us Heartinternet has been fabulous and as a business we need this trust in a hosting company to build a relationship for the future. We are looking forward to future with confident and we also like to express our gratitude to Heartinternet for being an amazing hosting provider so far.
