VPS Hosting Providers

This page is intended to provide summary information and links to various hosting providers which utilize Xen. To add your company here, please review the discussion page.

A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting provides developer friendly, affordable Xen VPS hosting plans all with huge disk limits.

• Plans starting at $14.95/month
• Your Choice of Linux Operating System including CentOS, Fedora Core, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware and Ubuntu
• A2 Hosting is located in Ann Arbor, MI
• No risk 30-day money back guarantee
• No setup fees or hidden costs

ChimeHost

ChimeHost specializes in Xen VPS hosting for both Linux and Windows.

• Plans starting at $26.95 per month with 512 MB dedicated RAM, 1 GB swap, 35 GB space and 500 GB bandwidth
• Service watch - Our staff will monitor your services such as http, pop3, ping, smtp, mysql port.
• Free Lockdown when ordering cPanel with your Xen VPS. For example, csf and BFD Installation, CHKROOTKIT + RKHUNTER Package and much more
• Located in Los Angeles, California

Smudgeit - UK lightweight Xen Servers

High availability, unmanaged UK Xen VPS servers.

• Xen packages with a choice of OS. Either CentOS, Debian or Ubuntu.
• Only the fastest 15k SCSI disks and Dell hardware.
• Free System Graphs
• Located near London, England
• Network Capacity: 52,000 MBits

VPSLink

VPSLink provides unmanaged, cheap Xen VPS hosting with a wide range of plans to accommodate any virtual private server budget:

• Plans starting at $7/mo (Note: Sale pricing in effect through March 31st, 2009 for Link-2 through Link-7 plans)
• Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, and Gentoo OS templates
• Updated server hardware and premium bandwidth included
• VPSLink is a Spry brand - backed by more than five years of VPS hosting experience
• Located in the Pacific Northwest

HostCube

Managed and unmanaged Xen hosting for web developers and designers.

• Own all equipment (not reselling someone else's hardware)
• In-house and knowledgeable technical support
• Undersold enterprise level hardware
• Proactive security, monitoring and backups, saving you hours per month of sysadmin time.
• Fully Scalable.

• Locations: New York, NY, and Long Island, NY
• Network: multiple tier 1 providers
• Pricing: Starts at $80/month USD for fully and proactively managed VPSs(with 6 and 12 month discounts available)

unixshell#

unixshell provides several hosting services based on Xen with competitive pricing. Their slant is no-frills support but they have an active support forum.

Location: Atlanta, GA (US)

ZZ Servers – Business Hosting Solutions

Powerful, secure and affordable managed and unmanaged VPS servers for business and development use. ZZ Servers specializes in building PCI certified secure environments for small businesses. We offer plans starting for as little as $5.95 per month and no setup fees. All accounts are built within minutes of ordering and feature remote reboots and more.

• Locations: San Francisco, CA / Virginia Beach, VA / Hilton Head, SC
• Network: Multi honed access to AboveNet, Level(3), NTT/Verio,WilTel, UUNet, PAIX

BudgetDedicated

For those who are looking for a cheap testing/learning environment on which they can also run their own service. Our customer base consists of small startup companies and people trying to start a business, or linux enthousiasts that want their own linux box continuously online. We get great feedback from our customers and try to be as helpful and flexible as possible. Also, we like stimulate linux adoption in small businesses.

Location: Netherlands. Amsterdam has excellent connectivity throughout Europe. Offering:

• Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo, Fedora Core, and even your own uploaded distribution of choice!
• Free 7 day product trial, no obligations to buy if you're not satisfied.

GrokThis.net

We've been providing Xen-based VPS accounts since the release of Xen 3.0. Our staff is flexible and easy to work with, just like the VPS accounts themselves! We run the services on dual-core Dell PowerEdge servers, loaded with plenty of ram, and we never overload or oversell our servers. We can install almost any OS supported by Xen, and customers are welcome to send us a disk image, if they choose.

• Location: Philadelphia, PA
• Network: Level 3 as primary carrier, secondary carrier may vary.

Slice Host - Built for Developers

We offer Xen packages in 256, 512 and 1024MB slices for $20, $38 and $70 dollars respectively. We're geared mainly at developers who need development stacks like Ruby on Rails, Python or Java.

Quantact Hosting - Xen hosting with great customer service!

We host Xen servers with a plan for every budget, starting at $14.99 per month.
Many Linux distros to choose from, Snapshot backups. A great way to get up and running fast!

• Fast Network and Servers
• 30 day money back
• Friendly Admins

VPS Lime LLC

Specializing in Storage VPS - lots of disk for low prices. .

• We run only HP Proliant Servers with Xeon & Nehalem processors
• Friendly live-chat support & email support available 24/7.
• 20gig-150gig VPS, starting at $9.99
• Location: Atlanta, GA
• Network: Peered with 37 Tier-1 providers at Tel-X. Primary network is Level 3 & Sprint.

VPS Village

Low-cost, unmanaged Xen VPS service, starting from $5/mo for an account with 64MB ram. Our 256MB accounts are only $20/mo! One of, if not the, lowest priced providers out there!

• Location: Philadelphia, PA
• Network: Level 3 and Sprint

x|encon - Xen hosting with tons of features!

We host our packages on Xen3/Gentoo based hand-crafted dual AMD64 machines. Our own control-panel offers an advanced feature-set of useful and important server management features.
Offering brand new linux distributons like Gentoo, Ubuntu 6.06, debian (stable/devel), Suse 10.0, FC5 and soon Opensolaris and several BSDs our os offering should be nearly complete (install your os of choice trough our rescue system if you want). Please have a look at some selected features:

• Friendly and helpful service
• Ultra Fast Network (located in germany)
• NO setup fee
• Snapshots, automated installs, remote console, rescue-system, Traffic management, external firewall, scriptable interface (implement your own features), additional dynamic DNS for your own domains, dns zone admin, internal (cost free) mirror network, RSS Feeds, ...
• International language support

vpsFarm

Xen hosting starting at $19.99/mo for an account with 256MB of RAM. We offer INSTANT ACTIVATION on all accounts, a web interface for customers to reboot, boot, halt, reinstall or even change the OS of their VPS.

• Office Location: Chantilly, VA USA
• Datacenter Location: Ashburn, VA, USA
• Network: AT&T, Tiscali, Saavis, Level 3, Cogent, Global Crossing and BTN Access.
• Instant Setup.
• No Setup Fees.
• Xen domU's available: CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Slackware.

GeoWirx

Xen hosting starting at $20/mo! High End Servers! Check for regularly advertised specials for a cheaper price!

• Office Location: Chicago, IL USA
• Datacenter Location: Chicago, IL USA
• Network: Outgoing bandwidth from PCCW Global, nLayer, and TeliaSonera (No Cogent) || Incoming bandwidth including AT&T, SAVVIS, LEVEL3, PCCW Global, nLayer, and TeliaSonera (No Cogent)
• No Setup Fees.

xenianer

XEN hosting on Supermicro hardware beginning at 8,90€ / month. All systems have redundant uplinks, redundant powersupply, hardware raid-5 (3-ware).

• Office: Wadern, Germany, 30 minutes away from Colo
• Datacenter: Colocation at Inexio, Germany
• Network: at the moment 9 Gbit/s available at datacenter, network max. capabillity is 40x80 Gbit/s, direct peering at DECIX, traffic via Level3, TeliaSonera, P&T
• DomU with lots of systems available: AsteriskNow Beta6 (VoIP),CentOS 5.1,CentOS 4.4,Debian 3.1 Sarge,Debian 3.1 inkl. VHCS,Debian 4.0 Etch, Debian 4.0 inkl. SysCP 1.2.19, Debian 5.0 Lenny, Fedora Core 8, Fedora Core 7, Gentoo 2008.0, Gentoo 2007.0, OpenSuSe 11.0,OpenSuSe 10.3, OpenSuSe 10.2,Suse 9.3,Ubuntu 8.04.1,Ubuntu 7.10,Ubuntu 7.04,Ubuntu 6.06,Ubuntu 6.10

WebAngel

Xen hosing plans starting from 6.00€/month. Enterprise level hardware with redundancy.

• Datacenter in Germany
• Wide range of Linux distributions available (Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Fedora and many more)
• Wide range of Turn-key pre-installed Applications Available
• Fast and reliable hardware

See Also

• http://whatisxenhosting.com for a searchable list of providers, details and prices
• http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VirtualPrivateServerProviders
• http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VpsHostingWithXen