Data Centers
Hosting Guru has data centers in both the United States and Canada. Choose which country to deploy your VPS server in, or deploy VPS servers in both countries as required. With a Clustered Hsphere VPS account, maintain the ability to centrally manage fleets of VPS servers, Cloud Servers or Dedicated servers - across multiple platforms and multiple countries. All from a central managed interface.
Highly Scalable
Enjoy using the most powerful and flexible hosting and infrastructure control panel available in the market. Managed Linux VPS instance on a cPanel/WHM install or Managed Linux VPS instance on a DirectAdmin install Seamlessly cluster services across multiple types of infrastructure. Centrally manage and support fleets of servers, across multiple data centers and multiple countries from a central location
Fully Managed Services
Hosting Guru offers the most complete definition of Managed Services available in the industry. A true proactive approach to managing your servers. Managed backups, Managed firewalls, proactive and real time intrusion detection, virus protection, detection, action and resolution are all included as standard in our Managed VPS offerings.
Enterprise Grade Data Redundancy
Hosting Guru VPS offers a best in industry premium disk solution for virtualization. Eight, fastest available, 2.5" SAS drives in a RAID10 configuration. Backed by Enterprise Grade RAID cards with extensive caching and battery backup. IO is never an issue and the data is always protected against corruption in any scenario. Hosting Guru then backups all of your data 15 times on separate architecture and RAID10 SANs and we give you access to all of your backup points and allow you to restore ANY file or database from any restore point at any time. Each GB of data Hosting Guru provides with your VPS server is equal to almost 30 GB of raw disk space. Redundancy upon redundancy. Hosting Guru takes data seriously.
Citrix Xenserver technology
Hosting Guru VPS servers are legitimate virtualized and isolated instances powered by Citrix Xenserver technology. Each VPS is the equivalent to a dedicated server. Complete and independent OS install. Dedicated resources to just your VPS server (no more fighting for resources). Powerful servers with quad core or hex core CPUs and up to 96 GB RAM. Redundant everything with respect to components on the server. A Hosting Guru VPS is superior to any mid range dedicated server, it will be more redundant, more powerful, more flexible and more cost effective. Best of all, you can seamlessly scale your VPS server upwards until you actually require a dedicated server.
Spam Protection
Hosting Guru offers free SpamAssassin Anti-Spam and ClamAV Anti-Virus for all email accounts. For users who are victims of large volumes of spam, or who have a very low tolerance to spam, Hosting Guru offers seamless integration with our own Geographically Dispersed, Cloud Based SpamExperts Enterprise Grade Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus facilities (Hsphere Only). SpamExperts is available for an additional fee per DOMAIN, can be seamlessly added to any domain hosted within your control panel, offers a web GUI management interface, full quarantine and digest options and much more.
Secure Access
For advanced users requiring SSH, root or Administrator access to their VPS servers, Hosting Guru offers a Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution. Using a VPN you can lock down your server to all remote access except from your VPN user. VPN communication is encrypted, secure and follows you where ever you go. Hosting Guru provides VPN users for $7/mnth/VPN User.
Backup & Recovery
Hosting Guru offers a backup and recovery solution by Bacula4Hosts. Fully integrated solution offering you the ability to self service restore any of your files or databases right from your control panel. Backups are done to separate RAID60 backup infrastructure.
Ruby on Rails
Full Ruby on Rails support available with the Hosting Guru Managed Linux VPS solution. Enjoy the latest versions of Ruby, Rails and Passenger in a clustered environment. Fully yum update compliant. Add as many and which ever GEMs are required.
Maldetect Scanning - Free
Maldetect is a real time Anti-Virus and Malware scanning utility. In real time, Hosting Guru will monitor any changed files on your Managed VPS Server. If any malicious files are uploaded via FTP or via a script, Hosting Guru technicians will be instantly alerted and will respond to the alert. In most cases, Maldetect will clean the infected files on its own.
CloudLinux OS - Free
CloudLinux is a commercially supported Linux Operating System. It installs seamlessly onto RedHat and CentOS. Create LVE (Lightweight Virtual Environment) within your Hosting Guru VPS server. Set resources limits for each account within your Hosting Guru VPS server and control all resource utilization in a granular manner.
KSplice - Free
Ksplice is a tool used which can automatically update your Linux Kernel without requiring a reboot. Achieve better uptime and up to date and automatic Linux Kernel updates. Fully compliant with the CloudLinux Operating System.