Looking for Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting Provider

[mike-orkney]

Hi everyone,

It's 2.00am on Sept. 11th and I'm confussed and tired so please forgive me if I type a load of rubbish. I've spent days looking for a Linux VPS Hosting package from a company that is reputable. I've had such bad experiences in the past that I'm frightened to death by hosting companies that are here today and gone tomorrow.

There's a few questions I'd like to ask but have already forgotten what they were except for the following:

1. I'd like to have my own Linux VPS but, never having had one before would like to know how easy it is to set-up and maintain?

2. If I have a couple of domains already that are registered elsewhere can I point them to my VPS and will I be able to have my own mail servers like mail.my.com?

3. Can I have my own error pages?

4. I want to set-up a free e-mail service for the Island I live on (sometime in the future) Not many people would use it, but it's something to relieve the boredom of the long winter nights up here in Orkney! I already have purchased software called DWmail and wanted to be sure it would be acceptable for me to use it on my VPS and if the VPS would have the requirements I need. It requires:

PHP 4.1.0 or higher. Works with PHP 5
--with-imap, IMAP extensions to PHP (also know as IMAP c-client). Even if you only intend to use POP3 connection with DWmail you MUST meet this requirement.
PHP session support
Sending email support using PHP's mail() or using SMTP (local email accounts only)
At least one POP3 or IMAP4 mail server and email account to use with DWmail
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)
one of the following:
MySQL 3.23.x+
MySQLi 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 5.0.x
PostgreSQL
and ideally Zlib support for generating ZIP files

Would a VPS have these things or am I too tired?

5. Would I have my own name servers and IP address?

6. Am I able to reboot the server when I want to?

7. Would the basic VPS hosting be powerful enough for the mail program?

I can't remember anything else at the moment but I'm sure the above is enough for you to be going on with!!!

Hope to hear from you and many thanks for any reply in advance.

Mike


I'm heading off to bed

[mike-orkney]

Hi again,

Just remembered that although I like cpanel I doubt I could afford it. I have no expierience with OpenVZ so can anyone tell me if I can do the same things with that as I could with Cpanel?

Thanks!

[Dan]

Hi Mike, Welcome to Web Hosting UK

VPS is fully customizable with an additional £5 per month for cPanel on your VPS everything can be configured with ease.

You will get Virtuozzo with your Linux VPS where you can start, stop, reboot, check resources and stats, backup, manage the firewall and much much more.

If you have any queries if and after you purchase your VPS web hosting plan, you can contact LiveSupport 24/7 365 and they will help you along the way or even install the certain applications / configure them for you

All of the options specified in your post can be done with ease and you will receive 2 IP addresses and you can setup nameservers with those