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Visit our cPanel VPS Hosting and Plesk VPS Hosting pages to find out more.

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Keeping with the latest developments in cPanel shared hosting, we have put together a new selection of plans designed to meet the needs (and budgets) of webmasters, application developers, and eCommerce merchants at Spry Hosting.

Our Starter, Intermediate, Advanced, and eCommerce hosting plans have a wide range of capabilities - there’s a plan for your next project, whether you are just starting out or looking to upgrade from your present cPanel hosting:

1 E-mail Account

1 Hosted Domain

Disk:

1000 MB

Bandwidth:

5000 MB

Cost:

$25 / year

Made for parking a domain or serving a small site, the Starter plan offers everything you need to grow an idea into a successful website with the convenience of the cPanel hosting control panel.

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Unlimited

Unlimited

1 MySQL DB

Disk:

5000 MB

Bandwidth:

5 GB

Cost:

$3.95 / mo

Starting up a blog, wiki, or forum? This plan was made to suit the needs of your dynamic, database-driven site on the proven Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP framework and we’ve made it ultimately affordable.

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Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Disk:

10 GB

Bandwidth:

100 GB

Cost:

$5.95 / mo

Looking for a solution to host multiple projects?

Get unlimited domain hosting, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited e-mail accounts, and a dedicated IP address with 10 GB of space to host everything (with room to spare!)

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Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Disk:

50 GB

Bandwidth:

500 GB

Cost:

$14.95 / mo

You know that customers demand the security of SSL-secured shopping and you’ll need as much space as you can get to grow your business.

Get the right tool for the job with our SSL-ready eCommerce shared hosting plan.

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Visit our Shared Hosting page to find out more about the innovations in hosting (and pricing) arriving at Spry.

The latest additions to the VPSLink Linux OS template library are our Debian 4.0 Apache/Ruby on Rails stack and Debian 4.0 nginx/Ruby on Rails stack templates.

These two templates replace our CentOS 5, Fedora 8, and Ubuntu 7.10 lighttpd/Ruby on Rails templates. While we have curtailed the range of preconfigured operating systems, the option to install Ruby on Rails is never more than a few commands away - VPSLink provides full root access to install Ruby on Rails on any hosted Linux VPS.

If you are a fan of Debian, we’ve done all the work for you. Simply select the Debian 4.0 “Etch” - RoR w/ Apache + Mongrel or Debian 4.0 “Etch” - RoR w/ Nginx + Mongrel template from the My.VPSLink.com Server Control Center, click Change OS, and get a full-featured Ruby on Rails VPS with:

• nginx (a light-weight webserver) ”or” Apache (the ever-popular HTTP powerhouse)
• MySQL
• Mongrel
• Ruby 1.8.7
• RubyGems 1.1.1
• Rails 2.1.0
• ActionPack 2.1.0
• ActiveRecord 2.1.0
• ActionMailer 2.1.0
• Rake 0.8.1

Starting a new Rails-powered project? Choose Ruby on Rails VPS Hosting at VPSLink and have your virtual private server working in minutes.

After careful consideration, we’ve decided to move away from offering Webmin VPS plans to new Spry customers in favor of giving users of the Webmin platform the option of hosting with VPSLink.

Why the change?

Spry’s focus has always centered on providing top-quality shared web hosting and reseller VPS hosting with strong support. All of our hosting offerings - including our cPanel shared hosting, cPanel VPS hosting, and Plesk VPS hosting plans - cater to the needs of individuals and businesses who need website hosting (as conveniently, securely, and quickly as possible).

We’ve found that Webmin VPS users were right at home with Spry hosting, though they rarely needed the added benefit of a 24/7 support department and were often quite comfortable installing, upgrading, and tweaking Webmin on their own. Webmin’s flexibility allowed it to be used for a variety of applications aside from web hosting (which, in turn, inspired us to offer some new hosting options for advanced Linux users).

Enter VPSLink - the new addition to Spry’s brand - with unmanaged VPS hosting that fits the bill for Webmin installations with an even greater variety of popular Linux operating systems.

Over the last two years we have watched interest in the Webmin VPS at Spry shift towards the VPSLink service, and we would like to take this opportunity to give Webmin users the fully-configurable virtual private servers they’ve been looking for at VPSLink while re-dedicating the Spry brand to website hosting and web hosting reseller VPS solutions and the support you’ve come to expect from our diligent support team of technicians.

An OpenSSL key vulnerability for Debian 4.0 and Debian-based Linux distributions was published on May 13th, 2008. This vulnerability has the potential to affect any systems which trust keys generated by Debian 4.0 and its derivative operating systems.

Please see the Debian and Debian-based Distribution Security Notice posted on the VPSLink forums and the SSL Keys entry at the Debian Wiki for more information regarding this vulnerability and recommended actions to address the potential security issues which may result from weak SSL keys.

In keeping with our goal of releasing the latest Linux operating systems as they become available, Fedora 9 “Sulphur” has arrived at VPSLink, along with a LAMP-flavored template for rapid deployment.

If you run a Fedora VPS and have been procrastinating an upgrade, now is definitely a good time to backup your VPS and roll out with a fresh installation Fedora 9. (Fedora Core 6 “Zod” - released in late 2006 - is no longer supported with updates and will likely be leaving the VPSLink rotation soon)

What’s new in Fedora 9? Take a look at the Fedora 9 Release Notes - the Fedora Project team has been busy (and, while most of the updates are geared toward Fedora as a desktop operating system, you’ll likely find the addition of recent MySQL, postgresql, and perl versions to be useful in maintaining stability and performance on your VPS).

Two years ago, VPSLink was formed as a new branch of the services we have offered at Spry since 2002. Our goal for VPSLink has always been simple: deliver reliable access to high-end hardware and raw performance capabilities with streamlined prices.

We have dedicated ourselves to our simple goal, thousands of Linux users have signed on and put our service to the test, and we are looking forward to celebrating the anniversary of our service for years to come.

Celebrate with us: use coupon code ANNIVERSARY2 to claim a free year of VPSLink service on any plan when you select the 24-month billing cycle - see our VPS Hosting Plans to get started.

Ubuntu 8.04 - “Hardy Heron” - has landed at VPSLink.

Hardy Heron stands out among recent Ubuntu releases because it is a Long-Term Support release: this version promises the stability you would expect from a Debian-based distribution, and it will be supported with security fixes until 2011.

The default Ubuntu 8.04 VPS template and pre-configured LAMP template are ready (and waiting) for installation on both the OpenVZ and Xen platforms.

There’s a good chance that you have never heard of Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat.

Gaston will be remembered by history as the man who set the world’s first land speed record: on December 18th, 1898, he reached the speed of 39.24 miles per hour in his electric Jeantaud Duc.

The present land speed record stands at a scorching, sound-barrier-breaking 766 miles per hour over a one mile stretch – about twenty times the original record.

While Gaston’s record has been surpassed many times over, we felt that he deserved a mention while we’re doing some record setting of our own.

We would like to announce a new virtual private server hosting plan which doubles the impressive allocation our Link-6 plan offers:

The Link-7

• Disk space: 160 GB
• Bandwidth: 5000 GB
• Dedicated RAM: 4096 MB

Yes, that’s five terabytes of bandwidth and four gigabytes of RAM – we’re keeping a standard unit of measurement because the Link-1 would feel a bit left out if we started representing its allocation in decimals.

Every new Link-7 OpenVZ or Xen VPS will be provisioned instantly to quality Dell hardware in our fortified datacenter, backed by our 24/7 network uptime support, and ready to roll-out with your choice from our selection of thirty-three Linux operating system templates.

Have a record in mind? Now is the time to break it. The Link-7 is here to help.

Visit LinuxFest Northwest’s
Official Site >>

Do you live in the Pacific Northwest?
Do you love Linux?
Join us at LinuxFest Northwest 2008!

You will be in good company if you can make it to this formidable gathering: there will be a wide variety of presentations geared toward developers and Linux enthusiasts, and it’s likely that there will be about one thousand attendees, including Lyle (our Support Manager and resident Linux wizard) and myself.

We will be manning the Spry/VPSLink booth, distributing all manner of free stuff, and waiting to meet and greet any Spry/VPSLink customers who can stop in for the event.

If you needed any more convincing to make the trip, check out some accounts of others’ LinuxFest experiences.

We hope to see you there!