If you have ever thought about trying out a VPS, now is your chance. To conclude the year of 2008 and kick off the New Year with a bang, 34SP.com has listened to your requests and we are therefore offering you a great chance to try our latest product offering: Virtual Private Server Hosting. Virtual servers permit quick scaling and testing of online applications and can host unlimited websites. They can be supplied with the Plesk interface installed, and you then have full root access to both the server and Plesk. Alternatively, you can have a plain VPS without any control panel software for maximum flexibility. Often a virtual server can do everything that a dedicated server can do for a fraction of the cost, and the upgrade path to a full server is very simple with no downtime.

We often hear that clients want to try our VPS hosting. So to make it incredibly easy for you we are offering the first month of VPS hosting for just 10p. This is also in addition to free setup on all VPS accounts.

There is no long term commitment on this offer, just the same great service and support that 34SP.com delivers consistently. This offer is for a limited time only. So don’t delay – try out our VPS hosting offer here or visit the 34SP.com website to get started today.

On behalf of everyone here at 34SP.com I would like to wish you and your family happiness in this holiday season. Best wishes for a successful and prosperous New Year as well.

Back in 2005, 34SP.com added a second transit provider to increase our network’s resilience to problems and increase reliability for our customers.

Part of the work involved in this was reassigning the IP addresses of all our servers to a new range, sourced directly from RIPE. These addresses can be routed over either connection, enabling full redundancy. In technical speak, they’re known as provider independent or PI addresses. While we moved quickly to put all customer sites in this address space, and then moved our own public facing equipment over, this week has seen the last internal servers moved and the changeover complete.

We are currently undertaking further measures to add another provider and increase our network resilience further.

Our old addresses belong to Level(3), our original sole transit provider, and they will be returned so that others can use them in the future. Good luck, anyone who ends up with those addresses; they’ve served us well.

Just a quick update that we have now lowered our bandwidth prices for everyone.  Excess bandwidth is now billed at 1 pound per 1GB excess.  This applies to all 34SP.com accounts and services.

Please note we also sponsor sites with heavy traffic levels.  If your site needs high bandwidth allocations (10GB+) and you feel your site visitors might be a natural fit for 34SP.com, just get in touch at info@34sp.com.