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ElasticHosts virtual servers come in sizes to suit all businesses, from a basic, but fully capable server from £29/$44 per month to high-end configurations with up to eight cores, 8 GB memory, 2 TB disk.
Our virtual servers offer you all the power and control of full administrator access to your own machine. You have complete control to choose the operating system, applications and configuration of your machine, and can even upload and boot your own custom disk images.
We support any PC operating system on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 architectures, including:
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| Linux |
We provide pre-installed images of:
Debian 5.0, 4.0; Ubuntu 9.04, 8.10 We support thousands of pre-built Elastic Servers: These offer a wide range of pre-installed software, and are provided ready to go by our partners CohesiveFT. We provide install CDs for: CentOS 5.5, 5.4, 5.3; Debian 5.0; Knoppix 6.0.1; Red Hat Fedora 13, 12, 11, 10; Ubuntu 10.40, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10, 8.04 or you can upload your own installation media |
You can upload the raw hard drive image from an existing physical or virtual server running any of these operating systems – we support p2v, v2v and v2p migrations to and from our cloud. |
| Windows |
We provide pre-installed images of:
Windows Web Server 2008, Windows Web Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Web Edition We provide install CDs for: Windows Server 2008 Trial, Windows Web Server 2008 Trial or you can upload your own installation media and install: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 |
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| Other Unix |
We provide install CDs for:
FreeBSD 8.0, 7.2; OpenSolaris 2009.06 or you can upload your own installation media |
Common configurations
Customers run a full wide range of operating systems, databases, server software and applications, including:
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Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. Our customers choose Ruby for rapid development of their web applications. |
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Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Our customers choose Django to build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly. |
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Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages
Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages enable development of platform-independent enterprise-class web applications, running over a servlet engine such as Apache Tomcat Our customers choose Java to build on the wide-spread, platform-independent Java environment. |
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CGI and PHP
CGI is the original standard protocol for interfacing to a web server. FastCGI is a more recent development which allows for persistent handler processes and is therefore more scalable and better performing. Our customers use CGI and FastCGI to add dynamic capabilities to their static sites. |
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Customized advanced technologies
Our virtual servers offer you all the power and control of administrator access to your own machine, enabling you to write your own advanced applications using any technology that you choose. Our customers choose to do this for their most intensive tasks. |