By the end of our public beta, we will offer a full suite of
accompanying services for our
virtual servers, together forming a richly-featured environment to help you build and
maintain your web application. All of our services can be managed from
any web browser, and they will include:
| Category |
Service |
Description |
Pricing |
| Domains |
Domain registration and management |
Registration and transfers of all common types of
domain (.com, .org, .net, .co.uk, .org.uk, etc.) |
£10/year (and £10 for transfers in or out) |
| Primary/secondary DNS |
DNS for your domain, either as a primary and secondary or a
backup to your own primary DNS on your virtual server, including
full freedom to configure mail and subdomains as you will |
Free |
| Reverse DNS |
Reverse DNS for your primary and extra IP addresses |
Free |
| Web/IP |
Load-balancing |
Load-balancing of web traffic across a group of our virtual
servers |
£5/month |
| Monitoring |
Regular monitoring of a given URL and alert by e-mail / txt with
optional automatic virtual server reboot if it fails |
£5/month per URL |
| Extra static IP addresses |
Allocation of additional static IP addresses (e.g. for SSL web
hosting): we can allocate up to a total of 3 static IP addresses
per account, or can support you in applying to RIPE for a larger
allocation. Note that we automatically also provide one dynamic IP
address for every virtual server |
£5/month administration fee per extra static IP |
| BGP announcement / peering |
Announcement of your existing PI allocation of IP space, or
peering with your BGP server running on our virtual server farm |
£150 setup fee |
| Mail |
Mail forwarding |
Forwarding of mail received at your domain to one or more
external e-mail addresses or mailboxes on our servers |
Free |
| MX backup |
MX backup service on our mail servers to receive and temporarily
store your incoming e-mail if your mail server is unavailable |
Free |
| Smarthost |
Mail relay by our own core mail servers to route outgoing mail
from your virtual server to the rest of the Internet |
Free |
| SMTP AUTH |
Authenticated mail relay by our own core mail servers to route
outgoing mail from virtual server or your desktop mail software
to the rest of the Internet |
Free |
| IMAP / POP3 mailboxes |
Mail boxes to store your incoming e-mail if you do not wish to
run a mail server on your own virtual server |
Same rates as virtual server disk space |
| Mailing lists |
Mailing lists which you can simply attach to addresses within
your domains |
Same rates as virtual server disk space |
| Security |
Spam filtering |
Advanced spam filtering of incoming e-mail before it reaches
your e-mail server on your virtual server |
£5/month |
| Network firewall |
Port filtering on network connections to your virtual server, to
shield you from many types of potential security attack |
Free |
| Snapshots |
Automatic regular backups of the disk and running machine state
of your virtual server for rapid disaster recovery |
Same rates as virtual server disk space |
| Remote backup |
Additional storage space, located independently from your
virtual server, onto which you can make remote backups of your
most critical data |
Same rates as virtual server disk space |
| Consultancy |
Server software support |
Support for the software that you run on your virtual server -
we pride ourselves on our virtualization infrastructure, but
cannot guarantee free support of software that you run on your
virtual server, given that you have complete freedom to install
any software package with any configuration. |
£150/hour |
| Complex hosting |
Bespoke design of
Complex hosting solutions to meet specialist needs not covered by
our standard products |
By agreement |
| Unix and virtualization consultancy |
Bespoke consultancy for your in-house Unix and virtualization
projects, drawing on our years of experience |
By agreement |