Farbyte managed cloud VPS hosting refers to the virtualisation of servers in a cloud-based environment. It provides scalable and flexible hosting solutions where virtual servers are created and managed on our highly available, high performance cloud infrastructure.
Two virtualisation types are offered:
- OpenVZ: Individual Linux containers with reduced RAM usage and lower entry price. Linux OS only.
- KVM: Full hypervisor virtual machines providing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Supports Linux, BSD, and Windows OS.
Our managed cloud VPS hosting offers significant cost savings compared to other major cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Farbyte is nearly 90% less expensive than AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure for unmanaged services!
In the case of managed servers, the savings can be over 50x less than other providers.
Yes, our service includes UK servers and support. Farbyte offers assistance for any technical issues or inquiries related to your virtual server hosting.
Instant setup is available for managed cloud VPS hosting, and your virtual server can be ready within 60 seconds.
Yes, there are specific hosting solutions available for WordPress and Drupal websites. Both managed & unmanaged solutions are available.
Yes. Resources can be increased & decreased whenever you like & changes take effect immediately. Increases are billed immediately based on the number of days until the next invoice. Future invoices will be at the new price. Decreases in resources are applied immediately & reflected in the next invoice.
VPS can be billed at 1, 3, 6, 12, 24 or 36 month periods.
Yes.
Our web browser based VPS control panel allows you to shutdown, reboot or boot the VPS at any time.
Initially there are 2 ways to access your VPS:
- SSH or
- via the web console provided in the VPS control panel
After the VPS has deployed, you can add additional remote access methods to your requirements (e.g. RDP, VNC, etc.)
Any SSH client software can be used to connect to the VPS.
By default our Linux VPS are intended for carrying out server based operations, therefore no window desktop is provided out of the box.
However, you can install any Linux window system & remote access software you like after the VPS is deployed.
Yes.
You can access a terminal console for your VPS at anytime by logging into our VPS control panel & using the browser based console client, or creating a special proxy console session & using any SSH client to connect to that.
As such, you can access the VPS, even if you IP address get blocked by your VPS firewall, etc.
All VPS have full admin/root access.
Yes, for managed VPS, we will perform complete setup after consultation via our live chat & ticket system. For unmanaged services we can help setting up any of your servers.
We can also provide support for other infrastructure servers (e.g. PBX, database, etc.).
With our cloud KVM service you have the flexibility of creating full virtual server point-in-time snapshots (including the current contents of RAM if required).
This allows you to roll back your entire server to the moment you took the snapshot.
All managed KVM VPS come with 4 free snapshot backups per deployed server. Unmanaged KVM VPS can add snapshots as required for a small fee.
Snapshots can be run manually & also scheduled on an hourly or daily basis.
Managed VPS are also fully backed up on a weekly basis to a local facility for disaster recovery.
In addition, we recommend that you deploy a backup server solution within your virtual private cloud (e.g. FreeNAS), or at another remote location.