Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Xen Hosting Services
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Call back and chat support
If you want to to discuss your hosting need, or simply because you want us to open an account over the phone, we can call you back at any time in 35 major countries. Just fill out the form... or add our IDs into your instant messager application.
Unique control panel
Our VPS Hosting control panel is the only solution that has reached major UNIX distribution like Debian or Ubuntu. Since the 14 Feb. 2008, Debian Lenny has been released as the new stable distribution, and it includes our DTC and DTC-Xen software.
Instant Account Activation
Don't wait for somebody to manually setup your VPS. Our solution is fully automated. As soon as you have paid for your VPS hosting, our scripts start and setup your VPS instantly, thanks to our instant account activation feature.
Pay as you go
There is no recurring payment system here. We do NOT record your credit card information, and we do NOT use recurring billing, you just pay when you receive a renewal reminder, for the period you choose.

VPS Hosting

Get your own root shell on one of our Xen VPS hosting package. Our VPS let you have the root on a server as if you were on a true dedicated server, at a very low cost. Performances remain almost unchanged, as we don't put too many customers on the same hardware and provide tight monitoring (see below).


Your own VPN server and backup DNS for just 12 USD per month is possible with GPLHost!
(4 months minimum subscription)
Buy now $12 /month
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Enough to run a basic web server for static content with no serious mail storage.
(3 months minimum subscription)
Buy now $18 /month
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The minimum for running the DTC control panel without mail scanning, antispam or antivirus.
(2 months minimum subscription)
Buy now $25 /month
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Start your first web activity and prepare for a fair traffic, and limited mail scanning.
Buy now $30 /month
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Resell your own Web space using DTC, for bigger content and popular content.
Buy now $50 /month
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For digg-resistant web servers with reverse proxy server and high mail traffic.
Buy now $70 /month
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The above prices are those of our VPS ZONE1: VPS hosting in Singapore, Seattle, Florida, Malaysia and Israel.
For the VPS ZONE2 prices of our VPS hosting in Australia (Sydney), please click here.
Want a VPS in Europe? We have space in Paris, London, Barcelona, Italy: go to our European VPS page at gplhost.co.uk.
The above prices don't include the payment gateway fees (0 to 5% depending on the payment method) and are for zone 1 only.
All the above prices are in USD. See more details about our VPS Hosting network.

Realtime availability

Rest of the world Europe

Features of our VPS hosting

  • High quality Supermicro hardware (see bellow)
  • Wide choice of location thanks to our unique world-wide coverage (see our network)
  • Management using our open source VPS management software that allow on demand:
    • Full on demand reinstallation using network and not OS images, so your always get the very latest version of your OS of choice (Debian, CentOS, NetBSD, Gentoo)
    • Physical VPS console access using ssh
    • Monitoring of your VPS activity and that of the other VPS on the server you are running on (CPU, I/O and Network activity)
    • Active Nagios monitoring of your VPS sending your alerts
    • Reverse automated DNS setup
    • Shutdown, forced shutdown, start and fsck of your VPS
    • 2 IPs for free (one by default, the 2nd upon justification, more if you pay for it)
  • Technical support (email + phone hotline + monitoring)
  • Anti DoS iptables rules on the dom0, but open firewall policy
  • DTC hosting control panel for easy configuration and server administration IF you take Pack 4 or more

VPS hosting VPS Platform

Our Xen VPS hosting control panel

We have released an open source solution for Xen VPS hosting. This solution gives our customer the ability to start/shutdown/force-shutdown a virtual server. With it, you can also do a file system check (fsck) and reinstall your operating system from scratch with a few clicks on our control panel. Another nice feature is that once you have processed the account opening form and payment, your account will be opened instantly, and your operating system installed. All you will have to do is start the virtual machine by clicking on the "boot-up" button, setup a root password, and start using your VPS.

Here are some screenshot of that interface:

Renewals
Bandwidth & I/O
Installer
Maintenance


If you want to know more about it, look into the project pages here:
GPLHost open source Xen control panel home


Our VPS hosting hardware:

Supermicro SC813T chassis
We now get only Supermicro 1U servers with PDSME+, and PDSMU motherboard with core2 quad processor with VT and EM64T features (1066 MHz RAM), so we can run 64 bits operating systems. All our servers have at least 4x1GB of RAM (often 4x2GB now) and 2x320 (often 2x750 GB) SATA2 hard drives, running under Linux Debian Stable for the Xen dom0, with our management software DTC-Xen.
We don't use expensive dual-processor xeon platforms, as the cost of this kind of platform would double the overall retail price of your VPS. We are convinced that the type of hardware we have selected is a perfect balance between reliability, speed and price, as they offer you the best deal with the maximum power. Also, we keep using smaller footprint in terms of RAM (no more than 4x1GB or 4x2GB) as we don't want to put too many customers on the same server (unlike many other hosts do).

Because hard drives DO fail, we also use RAID1 all the time for the safety of your data (this has already saved the life of our customer's data many times). Your virtual server will be hosted in a native LVM partition of physical servers for faster access (no slow NFS access) mounted on top of this RAID array.

A few words about Xen virtualisation software:

We use Xen virtualisation system because it's simply the state one of the art in virtual server hosting (VPS hosting). With Xen, the final virtual machine users enjoy short cpu, hard drive and network latencies thanks to accurate scheduling (note: this is totally different from other virtualization technologies like UML, vServer or Virtuozzo). Memory is not shared and not burstable among users, the physical memory is simply split into slices that we rent to you, the same way we do with LVM HDD slices.

VPS hosting packages and setup

It is possible to setup our control panel only on Debian Stable or higher (testing and SID have limited support), even if other OS are supported, installation takes currently too much time to make it a commercial proposal (our CentOS version is currently a bit experimental). Note that this may change in the near future (we are actively working on a CentOS version for example).

Debian

We can setup Debian Stable or Testing systems as you require, and this solution is fully managed, including our control panel and its dependencies. Note that unlike our competitors, we don't use templates or OS images: we use debootstrap to setup the latest versions of all packages so you get an updated system directly.

Even if our VPS are unmanaged, we happily reply to all your questions related to the use of a Debian system. We do provide extensive help on instant messenger for almost all kinds of situations, thanks to more than 10 years of experience in Debian administration and programming.

CentOS

Our system can setup CentOS VPSes directly using yum. Unlike our competitors, our VPS are installed using a network setup, and not an image based install, so you will end up with an up-to-date system directly. Note that you need at least a pack3 here, as yum is taking too much memory to run in smaller packs. Our pack 1 and 2 are not adapted to run CentOS.

It is worth noting that we are now the official maintainers of the yum package in Debian, as seen on this page.

NetBSD

Our system enables you to select between the normal and install kernel, so you can proceed to the setup of NetBSD through the official installer. YES! You will do the NetBSD install by yourself, using the physical console of the VPS, using ssh. Note that we support only NetBSD 5, as this is the only one that can be paravirtualized with Xen.

As NetBSD uses a very small amount of RAM, you actually can use it on a VPS pack1 to run a few services like a DNS server.

Gentoo

We are using the official tarball archives provided by Gentoo (so this is image based).

As you will need to recompile your packages to install them, we suggest you take at least a pack 4 if not pack 5.


Why VPS hosting at GPLHost is a good overall deal

VPS hosting traffic

You will discuss with us the traffic shaping policy that best fits your needs when using your Virtual Private Server, and we will help you setup linux CBQ traffic shaping with either strong or very bustable bandwidth, to protect you against high unwanted peaks but providing a good quality of bandwidth. Bandwidth overage is calculated at the rate of $0.75 each GB over quota, accounted on your end-of-the-month invoice. Monthly costs are to be paid in advance.

Memory usage and package choice considerations for our VPS hosting

Please take into consideration that a setup with our control panel implies the use of many servers that use a lot of memory, especially with email virus and spam scanning. With our normal setup, you have apache + mysql + php + postfix + amavis + clamav + spamassassin + courier + ftp server + etc... With 128MB, your VPS will swap directly when it boots, and with 128MB memory + 128MB swap is not enough for spamassassin to work properly if you receive heavy emails. So please consider taking AT LEAST package 4, and forget about running it in a packages lower than package 3 (in fact even Pack 3 is not something we would advise you to take with the control panel: sometimes some process may die because of a lack of available memory).

Here are some screenshots of the control panel we can setup for free (Debian only) in our vps hosting:
VPS root web panel

More screenshots can be seen in our open source control panel screenshot page.

GPLHost does good VPS hosting CPU deals

Public CPU monitor example for all VPSes of a server
We do a very carful monitoring of the CPU usage, to make sure that there is no VPS having a 100% CPU load (most of the time, this happens by mistake because of a process running in an infinite loop). Customers taking all the server CPU are kindly requested to move to dedicated server hosting within less than a month.

Even better, with GPLHost, you have access to a CPU monitor (see snap of an hourly log on the right).

This diagram will let you know daily, weekly, monthly and yearly who is the customer that takes all the machine time on the physical hardware. That way you KNOW that the server is not overloaded.

The CPU and Network monitor is, as all the software we do, released in open source. It's written in python, as python is what uses Xen, and is available as a part of DTC-Xen.


Before you register: read this about the procedure:

When you register your VPS, you will be redirected to our registration form in one of our servers in Singapore. The registration procedure is fully automated, and after payment, you will have your VPS starting to setup automatically. However, you are strongly encouraged to send us an e-mail stating all the requirements for your VPS such as: operating system (Debian with DTC control panel, Debian (without DTC), NetBSD, CentOS...), application you would like to run, and anything else you think we should know. We are always happy to answer any pre-sale question and guide you through our offer.

Our normal setup includes only one (LVM backend) ext3 partition, and a swap partition equal to amount of memory (we won't allow you to use more swap, and we monitor our VPSes I/O usages to be sure they don't swap like crazy, slowing down all the server). Your VPS will be first setup with one unique IP address and if you need more, we will have to ask you why, as per APNIC (Asia) / ARIN (USA) / RIPE (Europe) policy.

Also, note that our company may at any time ask you for further details needed to check your identity, like a copy of your ID card or passport. We can also call you to check the validity of your phone number. This can delay your account activation, as we would block your account, but that's the only way we can protect ourselves against the growing number of hackers registering VPSes with a stolen paypal account. We had many cases like this, and have sued such hackers in the past.