Managed VPS Hosting

With unmanaged VPS hosting, you need to set up your hosting environment yourself. We offer only managed VPS hosting services. With our VPS hosting, you don't need to perform any server configuration or installation. Your VPS instance is ready in minutes and you can deploy your website, or create your email accounts right away.

On the SmartVPS and SmartVPS PRO plans, we don't limit the number of websites that you can host on your VPS. You are only limited by the resources allocated to the VPS plan that you are using. The First Class Startup, First Class, and Ultimate VPS plans are designed to host one domain name and a number of parked domains that open the same website as the main domain. The main difference with shared hosting plans is that we will not take measures if your account "uses too much resources". You have your own server resources, you can use them in full, and there is no way for you to affect the whole server.

You can manage your VPS server through the free reseller Account Panel. You can create and manage hosting accounts on your SmartVPS through that interface. This is where you can configure the limits for your hosting accounts.

We use an in-house built Control Panel, and it comes bundled with each VPS hosting account for free. Each hosting account you create on your SmartVPS server will also have its own hosting Control Panel.

Yes, we do. We create system backups every 12 hours, and we keep them at a remote server for up to 15 days.

The VPS accounts have access to all software available to the shared plans, such as WP-CLI, multiple PHP interpreters, Drush, GIT, and others. Some features are available only to VPS accounts including, but not limited to, PHP-FPM, OPcache, Redis, Memcached, FFMPEG, Node.js (WebApps), and others.

Our servers run Linux and the server-side scripting languages we support are PHP, Perl, Python, TCL, and Ruby. PHP and Perl are more popular and widely spread languages and in general you can find more and better supported products written in them. We also support MySQL.

You can run WordPress, Joomla, phpBB3, osCommerce, ZenCart, Baikal, SMF, Magento, XOOPS, e107, SugarCRM, Coppermine, WebCalendar, MODX, TikiWiki, MediaWiki, Concrete5, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, Piwik/Matomo, OpenCart, LimeSurvey, Nextcloud, and many others.

You can find a list of awesome software you can host with us here. You can find installation instructions in our Knowledge Base.

Adding modules/software without extensive testing can affect the software environment and it may not be possible for us to honor all requests regarding additional software. If you need anything specific, please contact our support team, and we will review your request.

Each VPS server is limited to the resources available for its plan: CPU cores, RAM, disk space, inodes, traffic, etc. When setting up individual hosting accounts on a SmartVPS, you can customize the limits for each account such as disk space, traffic, inodes, memory limit, processes limit, etc.

You have SSH access to the server, but you don't have root access. This is a managed service, and the system services are set up and managed by us.

Regardless of the number of dedicated CPU cores a VPS plan has, our CPU Burst technology allows it to use at least 8 CPU cores in order to speed up the execution of all tasks. If the server exceeds its CPU usage quota within a two-hour window (the quota depends on the number of dedicated CPU cores), the system automatically reverts the number of CPU cores back to the number allowed for the current VPS plan.

The CPU usage of the VPS is checked every two hours, and if the server is below its CPU usage quota, the system will automatically enable CPU Burst for it again, giving it more CPU cores at least for the next two hours.

Basically, in times when the CPU cores available on the server are not fully utilized and there is idle CPU power we can give you as CPU Burst, we do it and we don't charge you extra for the additional CPU cores. And even when the CPU usage of your VPS does not allow it to use CPU Burst, it still gets all dedicated CPU cores that are included in the plan.

You can get a free domain name and a free SSL certificate with each Startup, First Class, and Ultimate plan. Even if you order just a single month of service, you get a domain name and an SSL certificate valid for a year.

You can choose among all TLDs that we offer for registration. You can register a new domain, renew an existing domain registered by us, or transfer an existing domain currently registered elsewhere. Note that the free domain offer does not cover the price of domains sold on domain auction sites or similar.

As for the free SSL certificate, you can choose between a RapidSSL certificate and a Sectigo Essential certificate.

To get your free domain and/or SSL certificate, just contact our Support Team after you have the account opened.

You can issue free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt through the Control Panel of all VPS plans.

VPS plans are paid on a monthly basis. You can also pay for your VPS account for several months in advance.

There is a fifteen-day money-back guarantee on your first month subscription.

Yes, you can upgrade an existing account to a Managed VPS plan. The upgrade requires the migration of the account to the VPS platform. You need to contact our support team to schedule the migration.