Web and General Hosting Services

For serious web systems developers, USP provides various types of managed root servers, in conjunction with one of the smaller and more versatile cloud hosting services. This scheme offers VM servers for Unix and Windows, where the configurations can be scaled from a modest 500MByte RAM/500MHz CPU to 20GByte, 20GHz.

Disk drive space can be resized from 5GByte up, and also cloned. Changing CPU and RAM setup means around 1 minute of downtime on a Unix server. Scaling up the drive will take longer - expanding from 25Gbyte to 100Gbyte takes around 30 minutes. Shrinking drives is not recommended - but we can add a smaller drive temporarily, copy over the contents; test the new configuration, and then delete the original oversized drive.

Yes, you could deal directly with ElasticHosts if you wanted, and you are welcome to check out their site and pricing, but configuring and managing any server from "bare metal" is not for beginners or the faint hearted, so we offer hands-on expertise and experience, and leave you with full access using the WebMin control panel system for managing just about every aspect of the server and its users. Although the default server config we support is Linux Debian 5 with PHP5 and MySql, the platform permits any configuration of Unix components. Windows 2008 is also available; but really now, why would you want to?

Any operating system and software that runs on a 64bit intel platform can be loaded onto this amazingly versatile environment, but non-standard configurations are subject to individual quotation. Additional support is available for I/O intensive disk applciations, and there is a AUP to ensure that "regular" users are not inconvenienced by the experimental.

Hosting:
	Shared virtual web server (just FTP access, not with ROOT control!)  from £10 pcm With 10GB disk allocation, including:     - 1000MB traffic per month     - Extra disk space is priced at £30.00pa per 10GB NB: you can "alias" multiple domains to a virtual server
	Secure (SSL) virtual web server £30.00 monthly, £150.00 setup Secure web hosting for encrypted transaction forms, etc. Secure server certificates are available from a range of certification authorities from £50-£400 depending on how paranoid you want to be, although they all do pretty much the same thing - visibly enable web communication via encrypted SSL connections.
	Managed root server from £50.00 monthly, £150.00 setup USP will set up and manage a server with our cloud partners, Elastic Hosts. Our preferred config is Apache/PHP/MySQL on a 1Gbit backbone; based on Linux platform, Webmin.. including:     - Static IP addresses £2.50 pcm     - CPU power £0.012/core-GHz-hour     - Memory £0.016/GB-hour     - 25GByte Disk space £10 pcm (can be scaled up to 400GByte)     - 50GByte FTP space for remote backup     - Traffic charged at £20/100GByte pcm
Specialist Services
	Schemes can be set up using servers based in the US, Europe and the UK (5 centres)