Designed for web agencies, resellers, and developers

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. Thanks to modern virtualization software (we use KVM), one physical server can be split into multiple virtual servers, allowing more efficient use of the server resources and lower prices for compute services.

On a managed VPS server, all software required for running websites, email, and databases is already installed, configured and tuned. On an unmanaged server, you need to install the required server software and configure it. On a managed VPS server, our system administrators take care of all security and performance updates. On an unmanaged VPS server, you need to monitor for updates yourself and apply them on your own.

The SmartVPS plans are tailored for web developers, agencies, and resellers, allowing them to easily manage the hosting services for their clients. The SmartVPS platform gives ICDSoft partners the freedom to host and manage multiple web projects under separate hosting accounts, or as separate websites under the same account using the "Addon Domains" feature. There is no problem to use a SmartVPS plan for a single website, but a more suitable option in this case might be our High-perforfmance VPS plans - Startup, First Class, and Ultimate.

The Startup, First Class, and Ultimate VPS plans are designed to provide a flexible and powerful solution for a resource-demanding website. These VPS plans offer plenty of resources that the account owner can utilize as they see fit, and provide scaling options to help the account owner find the most suitable platform for their requirements.

You could still add more websites to the Startup, First Class, and Ultimate plans, but there's a hard limit, while the SmartVPS plans offer unlimited websites.

We have designed the SmartVPS plans for customers that need more flexibility and want to customize the hosting accounts they use or resell. These plans allow you to set up custom resource limits for your accounts so that you can take full advantage of the resources at your disposal.

Additionally, you can host unlimited websites on a single SmartVPS account—simply stay within your resource limits and add as many sites as you need.

We have designed our managed VPS plans for customers with sites that have outgrown the resources of the shared hosting environment. You can host popular sites, sites gone viral, sites with high CPU usage, etc. With our managed VPS plans you will keep the user-friendly feel of our shared services, but you will take advantage of way more system resources.

The Ultimate plan is our most powerful VPS solution. You get 8 CPU cores, 32 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of SSD space. These resources will allow you to host almost any site on the Internet. The Ultimate plan is meant to host very popular sites or complex resource-demanding software. In short, it's meant for sites that demand even more resources than the Startup and First Class plans can handle.

Additionally, with the abundant resources available, you can host multiple websites alongside your main, resource-intensive one.

On a shared web hosting server, there are many different clients sharing the same server. On a VPS, you are the only tenant - only the accounts you set up share the server.

You get your own database server instance (MySQL), your own web server, your own IP address, etc. There are security benefits to not sharing the services essential to operating your website and email, although we have a very secure shared hosting environment, which diminishes the differences. There are also potential performance benefits, as no other users will be able to occupy the server resources your site needs.

Cloud hosting services are actually very similar to VPS services. The main advantage of cloud services is the potential for unlimited and/or dynamic scalability of the resources. With our VPS plans, you can also scale up and down, but this process cannot be automated.

Fully managed VPS hosting means that the server hardware and software is fully managed by us. This includes updates to the operating system, to the web server, mail server, database server, etc. We also monitor the server performance and uptime 24/7.

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 plans, we don't limit the number of websites you can host. You're only limited by the resources allocated to your VPS plan. The Startup, First Class, and Ultimate VPS plans can host a fixed number of websites. Check the comparison table above for specific limits.

The main difference from shared hosting is that we won't take measures if your account "uses too many resources". You have dedicated server resources to use in full, and there's no way for you to affect other users on the 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 VPS 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, etc. When setting up individual hosting accounts on a SmartVPS, you can customize the limits for each account such as disk space, inodes, memory, processes, 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.