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After spending the last couple of weeks configuring and testing our powerful new hardware, we’re now ready to offer VPS hosting to our clients!

VPS hosting is a platform which gives you all the features of a dedicated server but without the costs. This is achieved by sharing server resources with few other clients on the server.

Key features:

• Install any software to any configuration you like.
• Complete control – you have root access.
• Choice of operating systems.
• Choice of control panels.
• Reboot server and view statistics from your client area.

Our VPS packages are very affordable starting at £20 a month.

For more information, please visit: http://orchardhosting.com/virtual-hosting

If you have any questions or specific requirements for a VPS, you can contact Tom directly.

After a successful trial, we have decided to invest and upgrade all our shared servers to run on CloudLinux, a new operating system tailored for hosting that allows us to increase stability and speed of our servers.

CloudLinux gives each user their own resource limits, which means if a user was to have a “load spike” in their resource usage, it wouldn’t affect anyone else on the server.

Benefits:

• Server stays stable where other operating systems would allow a server go down
• Single customer can’t abuse resources of the entire server
• Fail safe, a sudden spike in resources from one tenant will not effect other tenants

We’re rolling CloudLinux out to shared servers this week, in each case it will require a server reboot.
We will be emailing all clients a scheduled time for the upgrade.

On Friday, the day after our Christmas party, Orchard Hosting are moving 120m down the road to Studio 31 on Dale Street, so please update your records with the following address:

Orchard Hosting
Unit 3, Fourth Floor
31 Dale Street
Manchester
M1 1EY

Our phone number will stay the same, and we’ll collect post sent to the old address for a month.