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Our Virtual Private Server Plans

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Services

Setup Fee

Price
24x7 Monitoring with eMail and SmS notifications
We will add your server to our monitoring system and monitor any ports and protocols that you require. We will gather historical data and graphs for whatever we monitor and make them available to you at any time. All alerts will be sent to you via SmS and eMail.
R100.00
once off
R100.00
per month
Server Protection Plan
Includes Managed Firewall, Managed Daily Backup (3 retentions - backups only apply to VPS and Cloud Servers all other servers are excluded) and 24x7 Monitoring with SMS and eMail notifications.
R0.00
once off
R350.00
per month
Managed Firewall
We will manage a firewall to protect your server from the Internet and open any ports or protocols that you require.
R100.00
once off
R100.00
per month
CPanel/WHM License (VPS)
cPanel is the next generation web hosting control panel system. It is designed for the end users of our system and allows you to control everything from adding or removing email accounts to administering MySQL databases, install scripts, eCommerce and more. (Setup Fees may apply to existing services)
R0.00
once off
R450.00
per month
JetBackup License
JetBackup is a very powerful backup tool designed to backup WHM & cPanel accounts. It boasts the following features: Point-in-time incremental backups, simultaneous local and remote backups, create as many backup jobs as you want, incremental backups, limit backup space / inodes for users, backup reports for billing support
R0.00
once off
R150.00
per month
Fantastico License
Fantastico enables you to quickly install dozens of the leading open source content management systems, blogs, ecommerce programs, mailing list managers, surveys, support systems, billing software, discussion boards, project managers, wikis, website builders and more into your web space.
R0.00
once off
R100.00
per month
Softaculous License
Softaculous is the leading Auto Installer having 288 great scripts and 1115 PHP Classes. Softaculous is widely used in the Web Hosting industry and it has helped millions of users install applications by the click of a button. Softaculous easily integrates into leading Control Panels like cPanel.
R0.00
once off
R100.00
per month
SiteBuilder Pro License
SiteBuilder is browser based sitebuilding software that installs directly into cPanel. Its easy-to-follow workflow, social media plugins, and robust content management features makes it easy for even non-programmers to create, market, and maintain a high-end web presence.
R0.00
once off
R200.00
per month
Plan Comparison Plan Comparison

Fully Scalable To Grow With Your Requirements

VPS Control Panel

A feature rich web based control panel offering boot, reboot, re-install and console options among other powerful features, provides you control of your VPS via a browser, while all servers are supplied with root / administrative access ensuring you full control of your VPS at any level.

Flexible Linux OS

Get up and running within seconds by selecting your preferred flavour of linux from our available selection. Should you require an operating system other than what we have available, ask one of our experts to custom install your prefered OS.

Easy To Upgrade

Our VPS servers are resizable, SSD powered virtual machines giving you the option to deploy the resources you need now and seamlessly upgrade at any time in the future.

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Server Management

We deliver the power of your IT enterprise without the burden of complex management. Our server management solution is perfect for businesses and start-ups who need to focus on their business and not the daily hassles or costs of running a server. Automation of workflows. Visibility in operations. Security as a promise. We manage and optimise your enterprise so you can manage your mission. We offer multiple options depending on the level of server management required.

Self-Managed

Partially-Managed

Fully-Managed

Enterprise-Managed

Reporting
Root / Administrative Access
Hardware Support
Indicative Monthly Support
2 Hours /month
3 Hours /month
4 Hours /month
Software Support
Optional Extra
Migrations
Optional Extra
Updates & Patching
Monitoring
Basic
Standard
Advanced
Security
Server Administration
Optional Extra
Optional Extra
24x7 Monitoring Plan
Optional Extra
Optional Extra
Managed Firewall
Optional Extra
Optional Extra
Optional Extra
Server Protection Plan
100GB CloudDrive
Monthly Price

R0.00

R500.00

R1500.00

R2500.00

*  Any of these plans can be added to your server during checkout or requested to be added to existing servers at any time.

** For any server management service related query please contact us on 011 998 8020 or send us email to sales@vpscity.co.za

Server Management Made Easy

The following additional features are also included with each server and can be accessed from within our client portal under the server detail section.

Server Metrics

VpsCity now enables you to monitor and track important server resource usage information (CPU, Memory, Network, Disk, Load, I/O, Uptime, Sessions and Users) and you are also able to set notifications and actions based on metrics via our Server Metrics tool.

Bandwidth Usage

Our Bandwidth Usage monitor helps you understand how much data flows across your network. You can access statistical and graphical information to further investigate all bandwidth usage. You can top-up extra bandwidth if needed via Bandwidth Usage tool.

Advanced Firewall

The VpsCity Advanced Firewall offers an intuitive and comprehensive cost-effective solution to keeping your server safe. You can add firewall rules for outbound and inbound connections as well, making the firewall bidirectional.

Server Backup

The VpsCity Backup System offers easy to use File Level Backups, Image Level Backups and Snapshot Backups for your server. You can schedule backups as granular as hourly all the way up to yearly and store data incrementally. Our backup system provide single click server restore process and alert notifications for success or failed backups.

Server Monitor

Server Monitor

Our Server Monitor is a complete solution for monitoring various services on your servers such as PING, HTTP, DNS, SMTP and many others from worldwide locations along with historic graphical statistics. Automatically send alerts for performance and availability issues via multiple notification mediums such as E-mail and SMS.

SQL Backup

Our SQL Backup system provides an essential safeguard for protecting critical data stored in your SQL Server databases. You need to back up your databases to preserve modifications to your data on a regular basis.

DNS Management

Our DNS management makes it easy to manage and secure your DNS to improve performance, accessibility and security by placing your DNS information on our Premium global network.

Some Additional Product Management Features

Included Features

IP Addresses

IPv4 Addresses assigned to the Virtual Private Server. IPv6 Addresses are available on request.

VPS Control Panel

We offer a fully featured VPS control panel. Boot, Reboot, Shutdown, Reinstall and VNC Console

SSD Hardware Raid

Server disks are configured with Hardware RAID for disk performance and redundancy.

South Africa Data Centre

All our SA VPS Servers are hosted in our Johannesburg data centres.

Full Root Access

Full root / administrative access and control is given to all our Virtual Private Servers.

HP & Dell Enterprise Hardware

Our Cloud Servers are powered by HP and Dell Enterprise Class Servers.

Full Image Backups

Daily, Weekly or Monthly image backups are available to all Virtual Private Servers.

Local Traffic (Unmetered - Fair Use)

The amount of network traffic that can be used by the VPS within South Africa (100 Mb/s).

International Traffic (100 Mb/s)

The maximum speed of network that can be used by the vps server Internationally 100 Mb/s or 1 Gb/s..

Setup Cost

There is no setup fee for any of our Virtual Private Server plans.

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

We guarantee our core network will be available 99.9% of the time after you subscribe

24x7x365 Support

All servers are monitored 24x7 and immediate action is taken if a problem is detected.

VPS Server Plan Comparison

 

Features

Standard VPS+

Business VPS+

CPU 2 vCPUs 4 vCPUs
Memory 2GB RAM 4GB RAM
Disk 50GB SSD Drive 75GB SSD Drive
Data 60GB International Data
Unlimited SA Data		 75GB International Data
Unlimited SA Data
I/O Priority Medium High
CPU Priority Medium High
Location SA SA
IP Address(s) 1 1
Backup Frequency Daily, Weekly and Monthly Daily, Weekly and Monthly
Backup Retentions 1 1
Operating System
Linux Only
Linux Only
Server Management Yes Optional Yes Optional
Monthly Price

R399.00

R699.00

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More Information

Fully or Semi-Managed Servers: Choose what's right for you.

Our Plans are designed for small businesses to mainstream servers that require processing power for applications or databases. Include the standard 99.9% up time guarantee, 24x7x365 technical support with a 30mins average response time and a 30 day money back guarantee.

Server Management

While a "do-it-yourself" server usually provides you with a cheaper line item, you are also responsible for updating and patching your server every step of the way. We offer both fully-managed and semi-managed VPS plans in order to best meet your needs. Our semi-managed plans do not include a hosting control panel, but do include our assistance with any hardware, operating system, or basic configuration issues. Our fully-managed plans include our assistance with just about any issue or configuration request you may have, outside of custom software/script installations.

High-Availability

Our VPS Hosting plans all come with a high-availability feature that essentially takes your VPS container, and empowers it with a cloud infrastructure. How does this work? We put a premium on your server's uptime, so we created an infrastructure of redundant hardware clusters that provides your partition with real-time redundancy. If for some reason there is an error on your server, there is another server in the cluster with that backup information ready to spin up. We utilise Virtuozzo, a virtualisation solution built on top of OpenVZ.

Max Speed Zones

We have data centres in South Africa, New Zealand & Australia and allow you to choose which data centre is closer to your physical location and customer base. These data centres serve our customers around the world and includes service from premium bandwidth providers and advanced routing technology to ensure your sites are served quickly.

Cutting Edge Hardware

Our VPS is completely Customisable and can be upgraded any time as your site grows. Full root access allows you total control, as well as the ability to install advanced software and completely customise your hosting environment. It truly is dedicated functionality without the expense.

Live-State Snapshots

Change is a good thing. Unfortunately, when you are making big changes to your site or application, there is always room for error. Live-state snapshots takes the idea of a "backup" and takes it forward to its next logical step. Taking a snapshot of your partition not only creates a backup of your files, but also all of the processes running in the background at that instant in time. This way, if you make an error or break something while making updates, you can revert your partition to that exact snapshot, providing a working, fail-safe rollback.

Solid-State Drives (SSD)

One of our top VPS Hosting features is that all of our servers utilise solid-state drives (SSDs), which provide increased performance over standard hard disk drives (HDDs). Our SSD servers perform up to 20x faster than older generation HDD servers, giving you faster read/write speeds and faster delivery of your content to your end users.

Processors

Customise your VPS servers with high performing processors that can enable your workloads to run faster and more efficiently while lowering overall cost of ownership. Configure your 2U or 4U server with up to four processors to deliver high performance for diverse workloads.

Memory

Add up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM during initial deployment, or increase memory capacity during the life of your server to meet your business growth. With next generation DDR4 memory support, your overall memory bandwidth increases and is Optimised for your workloads.

SSH and Root Access

Upon purchase, you can request Secure Shell (SSH) and root access to your VPS container. If you are familiar with these technologies, you can utilise the administrative access to securely access your server and make changes using command-line. Root access allows you to install and configure server-wide applications, quickly edit files and much more.

Full cPanel License

Optionally you can include cPanel/WHM license with our VPS Hosting plans, allowing you to use the industry-leading control panel to manage and organize your files, addon domains, email addresses and more.

Encryption

AES-256 Disk Safe Encryption can be enabled at the time of creation of Disk Safes for backup data. This aids in the protection of data stored in the backup server, and in protection of the data over the network so there is no need to use external encryption suites.

Web-Based Interface

Manage servers with one web-based enterprise console. Browse and restore files instantly across all server backups using an Explorer-style interface.

Positive Business Impacts for your Organisation
Lowered Investment Risk

  • Low investment entry
  • No long-term contracts
  • Shortened and quantifiable pay back periods
  • Expand or decrease monthly investment as business size or needs change

Profit Improvements

  • Quick turn around from implementation to quantifiable value
  • Increased cost recoveries
  • Increased re-chargeable costs
  • Reduced cost of management and administration

Administration Efficiencies

  • Improved accuracy of cost reporting
  • Improved assistance with forecasting and budgeting
  • Shorter time-to-evaluate key costs
  • Improved cost performance measurements
  • Improved assistance with cost/benefit analysis
  • Fraudulent and inappropriate usage exposure
  • Identification of cost variables to establish accurate indicators

IT/Telco Efficiencies

  • Reduced complexity of solution implementation
  • Reduced internal support, management and maintenance costs
  • Reduced total cost of network ownership
  • Increased network performance and utilisation
  • Short implementation time frame to “live” status for faster ROI

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a VPS?

A Virtual Private Server (sometimes referred to as a VPS or Virtual Server) is a physical server that has been partitioned into multiple virtual servers, each operate as if they were their own dedicated machine. Each VPS can be independently re-booted and the virtualisation software allows each virtual server to run its own copy of the operating system with superuser-level access to install almost any application.

What are the advantages of a VPS?

A VPS gives you the features and functionality of a dedicated server without the cost of building and maintaining one. If you need to host unlimited domains, have complete control of your environment and/or run your own applications, then you will benefit from having a VPS. In addition, a VPS provides the ability to manage your dedicated environment directly through SSH or Remote Desktop Connection.

What hardware specifications does your VPS's run on?

VpsCity's hardware nodes run on HP and Dell Enterprise Servers with 8 or 16 core Intel Xeon E5 processors and SSD RAID hardware arrays. SSD RAID provides disk I/O in excess of 1.2GB/s performance. Each hardware node contains up to 1TB of memory.

Will my VPS be backed up?

If you require your Virtual Private Server to be backed up, we strongly urge you to subscribe to the service during the checkout process. We offer an extremely customisable backup program that is very affordable.

What operating systems do you support?

Virtual Private Servers are full virtualisation servers so you are able to install most operating systems from windows to BSD. Think of Cloud Servers as dedicated servers with some added benefits.

How long does it take to setup your VPS's?

After you have ordered your Virtual Private Server and paid for it, it will be running within 30 seconds, ready for your use.

What software can I install on your VPS's?

As Virtual Private Servers operate like real dedicated servers there are no limitations to the applications that can be installed. The Cloud Server has full kernel level access and is not limited in any way, however some the following content is prohibited on our Cloud Servers: pirated software, hacking sites programs or archives, distribution of music files or any other material in which the user does not own the copyright, any other material deemed illegal by South Africa law.

Are game servers allowed?

Due to the nature of game servers and the unfortunate ability they have to attract DoS attacks, we unfortunately do not allow them on our network. We provide a predominant corporate network with many businesses running services and can not afford the disruption that DoS attacks bring due to gaming servers.

What is the difference between container based virtualisation and hypervisor virtualisation?

Hypervisor virtualisation mechanism emulates the hardware, you can run any operating system on top of any other, Windows on Linux, or the other way around. Both the guest operating system and the host operating system run with their own kernel.
Containers are the products of operating system virtualisation. They provide a lightweight virtual environment that groups and isolates a set of processes and resources such as memory, CPU, disk, etc., from the host and any other containers.