Can I run a game server on VPS or Dedicated Server ?

For hosting game servers we recommend using a Dedicated Server, VPS hosting is not recommended for a game server since the processor power and memory allocations for a VPS are less compared to a single Physical dedicated server. If you wish to test the game server application on a VPS then you can consider our VPS Enterprise for a month but we do not provide support for game server hosting on a VPS.

You can operate the dedicated server as a game server. We will provide you the dedicated server , and will install the operating system, if you would like to install game server software on it then you can of course do so. You have full access to the game server to install what you like. We do provide assistance with game server installations at no additional cost for Dedicated Server clients.

Server Network Speed

Every individual dedicated server gets a 100 Mbps connection. A choice between 10 Mbps and 1 Gbps is also available for dedicated server customers. Our shared & reseller hosting servers have a direct link to one of the many ethernet gigabit backbone connections within the datacenter facility. The semi-dedicated and vps hardware nodes are all connected to independent 100 Mbps lines. The whole Network Operations Center / Datacenter has multiple lines of 15 Gbps from almost every Tier 1 provider. This not only gives us redundancy, but it also acts as a good buffer in times of a sudden spurt in bandwidth requirements. Leaving aside any unforeseen circumstances or during times when we face nature’s fury, there are no problems of connectivity which you would have to put up with.

phpBB Forum Hosting

phpBB is the most popular open source forum/message/bulletin board software available on the Internet. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. phpBB forum is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. From it’s inception in 2000, phpBB has been a great community software with the right balance of features and usability.

phpBB has a key feature set which includes the following, among others:

• Powerful Permissions System
• Private Messaging
• Search Functions
• Customizable Template and Language System
• Multi-database Support

Do you offer phpBB hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers the best web hosting for phpBB Forum sites with great features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! phpBB comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package with both PHP5 and MySQL5 a perfect phpBB hosting environment. Its fully scalable and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB forum can be installed with just one click from our cPanel or Plesk Control Panel with no hassle and no coding experience necessary. phpBB forum can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

WebHosting UK phpBB Hosting Features:

• Instant phpBB Account Setup
• Free phpBB Installation
• Easy phpBB Account Upgrade
• phpBB Optimized Servers
• PHP 5.x and MySQL 5.x
• Fantastico auto-installer - Install phpBB in just a few clicks
• Stable, Secure and Reliable phpBB forum hosting service
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Additional phpBB Hosting Services:

We are proud to host more than 5,000 Forum sites! and we make the process quick, easy and painless for everybody. We provide FREE and professional 24/7 phpBB hosting support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such phpBB forums and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you. Don’t be fooled by other hosting providers, we promise the best service, because we can deliver it!

osCommerce Website Hosting

osCommerce is the most popular open source, front-to-back, on-line shopping cart application that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

Do you offer osCommerce Hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers you everything that you will need for creating and maintaining your online web store. WebHosting UK offers the best web hosting environment for osCommerce websites with exhaustive features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! osCommerce comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package and it can be installed with just one click from cPanel or Plesk Control Panel with no hassle and no coding experience necessary. osCommerce can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

From the minute you sign up online, you are in complete control. Design your site’s skin, re-direct traffic to your site, manage payments and fulfill all orders from a user-friendly owner console. With osCommerce, everything is screen-driven. Simply follow the directions, navigate and click to select from a full palette of options and within a couple of hours, you’re not just on-line – you’re in business!

WebHosting UK osCommerce Hosting Features:

• Instant osCommerce Account Setup
• Free osCommerce Installation
• Great osCommerce tutorial
• Easy osCommerce Account Upgrade
• osCommerce Optimized Servers
• Fantastico auto-installer - Install osCommerce in just a few clicks
• Stable, Secure and Reliable osCommerce hosting service
• Secure transactions with SSL support.
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Dedicated SSL and IP Address:

SSL certificate is a must for osCommerce site as it ensures that the confidential information like credit card numbers and bank account information entered by your customers remains secure. All our cPanel and windows osCommerce hosting plans include shared SSL certificate but shared SSL doesn’t look good for big sites with big products. We recommend Dedicated SSL for e-commerce website. We provide dedicated ssl for £39.99 per year with free dedicated ip. Our Technical support team take care of the SSL installation on your website. Each osCommerce hosting plan can have its own Dedicated SSL Certificate and IP address.

Payment Gateways:

osCommerce supports number of online payment gateways like 2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net etc. To accept payment from your online osCommerce web store you will need a merchant account from these payment gateways. osCommerce also supports offline payment processing like cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing etc.

Additional osCommerce Hosting Services:

Webhosting UK hosts several thousands of websites which work on osCommerce. We provide FREE and professional 24/7 osCommerce Support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such websites and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you.

Mediawiki Web Hosting

MediaWiki is a free and open source wiki package originally designed to work with Wikipedia. It is written in PHP and and uses a MySQL database. A wiki is software which offers its registered users or anyone the flexibility to come together and create, edit, link to each other, and organize content on various subjects on a website. Contents on most wiki sites are usually used as reference material by many. Wikis are also used as a medium to create collaborative websites and to enhance the popularity of community websites. Nowadays numerous online industries deployed wikis for their internal knowledge management as well as a content management system. MediaWiki is the most popular and recognizable wiki engine.

Do you offer Mediawiki Hosting ?

Yes. WebHosting UK offers the best web hosting environment for Mediawiki websites with exhaustive features, fast and secure servers, multiple add-ons and high quality customer service! All our Linux/Windows dedicated servers have been tweaked to get the maximum experience out of your Mediawiki website. Mediawiki comes standard with every webhosting.uk.com hosting package with both PHP5 and MySQL5 a perfect Mediawiki hosting environment. Mediawiki can be installed with all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting package with no hassle and no HTML and PHP coding experience necessary. Mediawiki can be installed upon client request for all our cPanel hosting and windows hosting customers.

WebHosting UK Mediawiki Hosting Features:

• Instant Mediawiki Account Setup
• Free Mediawiki Installation
• Easy Mediawiki Account Upgrade
• Wiki-optimized Servers
• Stable, Secure and Reliable Mediawiki hosting service
• 99.95% Uptime Guarantee
• 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
• Expert technical assistance

Additional Mediawiki Hosting Services:

Webhosting UK hosts several thousands of websites which work on Mediawiki. We provide FREE and professional 24/7 Mediawiki Support. Our Technical Support team has helped setup innumerable such websites and helped them function with regular upgrades and updates! Use our professional services and let us put our years of experience to work for you.

Q. What exactly virtual private servers (VPS) means?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) technology presents multiple isolated server environments on a single physical server. VPS allows multiple customers to share the expense of hardware and network connections without sacrificing privacy, performance or preference. Each VPS is completely independent from each other and it can be rebooted independently and has its own root/administrator access. VPS provides the flexibility to add and change modules and install your own software.

Q. What is the contention ratio of your Virtual Private Servers (VPS) Hosting ?

Ans: The contention ratio is the amount of vps users we put on the same vps node. Some vps hosting providers practice the nasty habit of overselling; that is, creating as many vps hosting accounts onto the same vps node as possible and praying that they don’t all use their dedicated resources at the same time. That is not what we do. Even if all the vps hosting users on one of our VPS nodes were to use 100% of their vps hosting resources simultaneously, there would be enough to go around with plenty to spare. You can rest assured that your vps hosting account will always be stable and unaffected by the actions of any other Webhosting UK VPS hosting user. We make sure that each VPS receives its guaranteed amount of resources.

Here are a few reasons why one should signup for a Web Hosting UK VPS

WebHosting UK VPS:

• Outstanding Multi-Homed Network
• Dedicated resources (CPU, RAM, Disk space)
• Running the stable Linux OS
• cPanel/WHM and Plesk control panel license for easy management
• Fantastico
• Install custom softwares and applications
• Full root access
• Database Support
• Great 24×7 Support (Ticket, Chat, Email and Toll Free Phone Support)
• Superior Uptime
• Powerful and Secure Server Technology
• Guaranteed Service Satisfaction
• Active Webmaster Community

What is guaranteed RAM?

Guaranteed RAM is not a limit, but a minimum availability of RAM for your VPS. No matter how much RAM other VPS’s use, this amount is available to you at all times. A great advantage of using VPS technology is that your VPS is able to burst over its guaranteed amount of RAM.

For more info on Burstable RAM visit the following link:

http://www.webhosting.uk.com/knowledgebase/what-is-burstable-ram/

Refer the following link to check the Guaranteed RAM allocation for Linux VPS and Windows VPS hosting server.

Linux VPS Hosting

Windows VPS Hosting

What do you mean by ‘burst RAM’?

Bursting means that while you are always guaranteed a certain amount of system resources, far more is available on each box than simply these guarantees. Hence, should you require your loads to spike higher than your guarantees, as long as the resources are available on the box at that time, you can use them, up to your ‘burst’ level. We are constantly monitoring the loads of each server to make sure that nothing is oversold, and that customers always have their guaranteed resources.

We make sure that an ample amount of burst resources are always available on each host machine. Your burst allottment is not the same thing as your resource guarantee. You cannot count on constant, sustained utilization of your burst resources. If your VPS constantly requires greater resources than your package guarantees, we can work with you to quickly upgrade you to a package with greater guaranteed resources.

Refer the following link to check the Burstable RAM allocation for Linux VPS Hosting server.

Linux VPS Hosting