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Why Fasthosts
Choose one of our virtual private servers (VPS) and you'll get the best spec in the UK. Find out why it's the best below and why not all VPS are created equal.
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UK Data centres
State of the art
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data centres -
Award winning
VPS cloud
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technology -
99.99% uptime
Guarantee &
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automatic failover -
Powerful tools
And easy to use
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control panel -
Performance
Dynamic load
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balancing -
Industry Leading
Not all VPS's are
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created equal
Compare our virtual private servers with the rest of the market
Tagadab Easyspace UK2 123Reg Heart Custom VS2000 Custom Custom Custom Custom Disk 80GB 70GB 50GB 80GB 80GB 80GB RAM 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB 2GB Failover 
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- Load balancing - - - Online self-service
portal- Automatic server upgrades
- Automated temporary upgrades
- - - - Analytics - - - - - Free email usage alerts - - - - - Hyper-V award - - - - - Price (monthly) £24.49* £74.99 £54.99 £33.95 £23.99 £23.99 * Special offer price for 3 months, normal price £34.99 per month.
Comparison accurate as of 22nd February 2012.
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State-of-the-art data UK centres
Our virtual private servers (VPS) are hosted in state-of-the-art data centres. We have worked with other industry leaders and designed a clustered-server architecture and RAID-protected storage area network (SAN) to ensure your business benefits from the best cloud technology.
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Award winning technology
Microsoft has awarded Fasthosts the Hyper-V Cloud Partner 2011 and Worldwide Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year.
Our VPS platform uses enterprise grade Dell hardware, NetApp storage and Microsoft
Hyper-V virtualisation - giving you a high performance, secure and resilient solution.
Thanks to Microsoft's Hyper-V software, every VPS has its own dedicated operating system and run securely and independently from each other.
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99.99% uptime & automatic failover
With our virtual private servers (VPS) you'll receive a guarantee of 99.99% uptime giving you peace of mind that your data is safe and accessible. In the unlikely event that one of the physical servers encounters a hardware issue, your virtual private server will automatically failover to reserve hardware. We store our virtual private servers on a centralised SAN, which means your VPS can run on any of our physical servers without a loss of data.
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Powerful VPS management tools
Quickly respond to the changing needs of your business faster with our online control panel. You can keep track of your VPS' resources in dashboard displays and receive email and SMS alerts to let you know when you're close to capacity. You have the power and tools to set up permanent or temporary upgrades to your VPS relating to specified dates or usage trends.
You can increase resources to cope with expected peaks in use, and schedule them to return to their original settings at the end of that period. You can also increase resources immediately, and for as little as a day, to cope with unexpected peaks in use. It's just as easy to upgrade the storage space on your virtual server permanently - you can do this instantly through the control panel.
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High performance load balancing
You can improve business performance with our centralised storage area network (SAN) and automatic load-balancing technology for virtual private servers (VPS). It assesses the resources needed by virtual private servers and distributes workloads across physical machines to give customers the best performance from their VPS'.
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Two types of virtualisation
Many other providers use type 2 virtualisation for their virtual private servers, a cheaper alternative to type 1. It's a basic, low-end product, so make sure you know which product you're getting.
Quite often VPS' using type 2 virtualisation will run Parallels Virtuozzo. In this model, virtual private servers share aspects of a host operating system. This means that VPS' running on these platforms typically compete for resources within the operating system, which can impede performance.
With Fasthosts cloud technology (type 1) your VPS will have an independent, isolated operating system and will easily access hardware resources dedicated to them through a thin hypervisor.
So make sure you get the best virtual private server (VPS) by understanding how different types of virtualisation and server architecture can affect performance.
Type 1: High-end virtualisation
Type 1 virtualisation means that virtual private servers have independent, isolated operating systems and access hardware resources easily through a thin hypervisor.
Type 2: Low end virtualisation
Type 2 virtualisation means that virtual private servers run on top of a virtual machine manager. They share aspects of a host operating system, which they must run through before they access hardware resources.
Platform design
As well as choice of virtualisation technology, a virtual server platform can also be designed in different ways to provide varying levels of performance and resilience to customers.
Clustered - Fasthosts
Virtual private servers share the resources of several physical servers and centralised storage for high performance. Fasthosts uses a clustered architecture, which supports automatic failover and load balancing - giving your virtual server better performance and high availability.
Standalone - Some of our competitors
Virtual private servers run on specific physical servers and use direct-attached storage. A virtual private server that operates from a standalone architecture does not provide load balancing and automatic failover, providing less resilience.
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