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Get to work straight away. A range of pre-installed software is included with all of our virtual private servers.



Operating systems	Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Edition	Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5 & 6
	Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition	Linux CentOS 5 & 6
		Linux Ubuntu 10.04 & 12.04

Web server	IIS7	Apache 2.2.3
Mail server	MailEnable	Dovecot 1.0
Mail server		Postfix 2.3
FTP server	MS FTP Software	vsftpd 2.0.5
Databases	MS SQL Server 2008 Web Edition*	MySQL Server 5.0
Databases
DNS Server	MS DNS Software**	Bind 9.3.6
DNS Server
Scripting	ASP.NET 3.5	PHP 5.1.6
	PHP 5.2.10	Ruby 1.8.5
	Perl 5.8.8	Perl 5.8.8
		Python 2.4.3
Security	IPSec port security
Security
Web Platform Installer 2.0	Yes	-
Free SSL certificate	Yes	Yes

*Pre-install MS SQL Server 2008 Web Edition on your virtual private server from £29pm ex VAT.
**Requires Windows 2008 Standard.

Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0

Included with every Windows virtual private server. Microsoft Web Platform Installer makes it easy to download, install and keep up-to-date with the latest server components and open source software.

Install popular open source software including Word Press, DotNetNuke and Drupal
Keep your Microsoft .NET installation up to date with the latest version
Install the latest patches and updates for IIS7
Download free Microsoft tools including Visual Web Developer Express 2008
Install PHP5 in 1 click

Install popular open source software such as WordPress.

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