ElasticHosts virtual servers come in sizes to suit all businesses, from a basic, but fully capable server from £29 per month to high-end configurations with up to eight cores, 5 GB memory, 2 TB disk.

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Our products are now available as a public beta release.

What do we mean by beta?

We have carefully designed, built and tested our products over the last six months, and our owners are already running their own critical servers on our infrastructure.

Nevertheless, customers who buy our products during our public beta period will be amongst our early paying users, so may encounter bugs which we and our testers have not yet found. We would appreciate your help in swiftly reporting these to be fixed.

There are also planned features which we do not yet provide in the public beta release. We intend to complete and release these to our customers incrementally through the period of the public beta.

Features for completion during public beta

  • Full launch capacity: We will continue to build out our infrastructure in parallel with our public beta. We may need to temporarily restrict new customers or growth of existing customers if demand temporarily exceeds our build out. If you plan to buy a significant number of virtual servers (10s-100s or more) then we recommend that you contact us to plan your capacity needs.
  • Wider operating system choice and preinstalled images: We are initially requiring that users install their own operating system either using a range of open source install CDs which we provide, or by uploading their own. We intend to add additional operating system choices and preinstalled images.
  • Improved payment integration: We are initially using Google Checkout to take payments for our public beta service. This can impose a delay between when your payment is entered and shipped. We intend to move to taking card payments directly.
  • Drive snapshots: We intend to offer snapshots of data on your drives for rapid disaster recovery.
  • Network VLANs: We intend to offer private VLANs between a user's virtual servers.
  • API: We intend to offer a web services API to create and control your drives and virtual servers on our infrastructure.
  • SLA: We intend to offer a competitve SLA for our products.
  • Minimal scheduled maintenance: We may need a small number of extra periods of scheduled maintenance during the public beta to build out our infrastructure. We will give you 24 hours advance warning of these periods and will make reasonable efforts to ensure that they are brief and outside peak times.