Hosting & Servers
Dedicated Servers
Our dedicated server offerings combine the latest hardware and technology with our outstanding customer support and highly skilled in house expertise. We build our dedicated servers to meet your specific needs and then house them in our own secure data centre facility.Get more freedom and flexibility from your hosting with a Dedicated Server
Operating System Choice
When you order your VPS, you can select from a list of Linux distributions or Windows operating systems so you can always work with your preferred software.
Managed or Self-managed
Choose to install Plesk, Interworx, or other control panels to manage your services and accounts or leave the server as a bare metal server to self-manage (ideal for technicians / developers).
Superfast Fibre
At Purple IO we own our very own Data Centre in the UK, therefore all our servers use our dedicated backbone, supporting upto 40G local network speeds and twelve 10G internet speeds.
Our Dedicated Server Plans
Prices per year is in advance; minimum contract duration 12 months.
Require a bespoke plan?
We can tailor a plan to your specific needs.
Operating Systems
Here are some popular operating systems:
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD and the current version runs on IA-32, x86-64, ARM, PowerPC and RISC-V processors.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, Server, and Core for Internet of things devices and robots.
Windows Server
Windows Server is a group of server operating systems that has been developed by Microsoft since 1993. The first OS that was released for this platform is Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server, an edition of Windows NT 3.1.
Fedora
Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies.
CentOS
CentOS is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
RedHat
Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.
You can also install your own Operating System.
Unlock your server to it's max potential
Looking for a package that provides your server with even more resources?
Get in touch with our Sales teams today to see how we help you.
Control Panels
Here are some popular control panels:
cPanel
cPanel is web hosting control panel software developed by cPanel, L.L.C. It provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site to the website owner or the "end user". It enables administration through a standard web browser using a three-tier structure.
Plesk
Plesk is a commercial web hosting and server data center automation software developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers.
ISP Config
ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux, licensed under BSD license and developed by the company ISPConfig UG. The ISPConfig project was started in autumn 2005 by Till Brehm from the German company projektfarm GmbH.
Vesta CP
Vesta is an open source Hosting Control Panel that is free to use under GPLv3. It provides an easy to use control panel that allows the management of websites, DNS, mail, backups, and more!
Webmin
Webmin is a web-based server management control panel for Unix-like systems. Webmin allows the user to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services and configuration files, as well as modify and control open-source apps, such as BIND, Apache HTTP Server, PHP, and MySQL.
Ajenti
Ajenti is a Linux & BSD modular server admin panel. Ajenti 2 provides a new interface and a better architecture, developed with Python3 and AngularJS.
Upgrades & Extras
Backup Storage
IP Addresses
Network Port Upgrade
Data Transfer
Firewall Co-Location
A+B Redundancy Upgrade (APC PDU)
It pays to be fast
Studies have shown that when page loading times increase from 8 to 2 seconds, conversion rates increase by 74%!
What's more, quicker web pages rank higher on Google searches.
Why choose Dedicated Server's from Purple IO?
Here are some great reasons why:
Cost-effective
Much cheaper than hiring a server admin or buying your own hardware (server, rack, network switches, backup power, etc).
Grows with you
Upgrade your package at any time you want with just one click, so it grows as your business does.
Self-owned Data Centre
Unlike most hosting companies, we own our very own Data Centre here in the UK, therefore cutting out the "middle-man".
99.99% Service uptime guarantee
We have a 99.99% network service guarantee with our network providers, giving us the best possible uptime guarantee.
Frequently Asked Questions
A dedicated server is a physical server that's assigned only to you! All resource options you select are physically attached to your dedicated server, so when it comes to upgrading we'll need to physically change the CPU, RAM and add additional storage drives.
All our dedicated servers are self-managed, but if you require assistance simply contact our support who will be happy to help you.
Dedicated servers provide several benefits, like the following:
- High performance
- More configuration control
- Enhanced security
Yes, get in touch and we can arrange for server upgrades.
Dedicated servers offer robust performance, security, and customization for a variety of use cases. You can use your dedicated server for any workload—from running applications to DevOps. Even content management and storage are common uses of a dedicated server.
Next, we give some particular use cases for dedicated servers:
- High performance computing
- Data backups
- Gaming
- Web hosting provision
Our data centre is based in Colchester, UK.
Yes, you'll have root / Admin to your dedicated server so that you can manage the servers configuration, packages and more.
Minimum of 12 months contract length, this is required due to bespoke configurations.
Yes! We have our own Cyber Insurance cover.
Yes! All of our dedicated servers are connected to both A + B ports for power redundancy.
Yes! We have an on-site generator, along with our per cabinet APC UPS's (lead-acid batteries) and our Hybrid Solar PV and Battery storage (lithium phosphate batteries).
Yes! We have our very own solar and battery storage system, providing power to our data center (keeping our costs low and our data center green). If we have a bad solar day or using more than we can generate we will pull from the grid, however locally there is also a solar farm nearby.
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