Leave the boring stuff to us – we will move and test your website on our infrastructure free of charge, usually within 24 to 48 hours of receiving your request.
All Managed VPS plans get two clean dedicated IP addresses.
All hosting servers are monitored 24/7 by automated systems and by humans. Our professional support team is available 24/7, ready to assist you with any hosting-related questions or issues you may have.
All Managed VPS plans come preinstalled with everything you need. Our system administrators will also take care of OS updates as well as all system software updates (web server, mail server, PHP, FTP server, security patches, etc.). This way you can focus on your business and leave server administration to us.
On all Managed VPS plans the accounts are backed up every 12 hours on a separate machine. Backups are kept for 15 days on separate storage servers to ensure failover availability in a worst-case scenario.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to companies that process credit card information. All our Managed VPS plans are PCI compliant. If you are having issues passing a PCI compliance scan, you can always contact our support team for assistance.
Free SSL Certificates from Let's Encrypt
WebApps supervisor with Node.js, Django, Ruby support
MySQL and multi-PHP environment (PHP 7 and PHP 5)
Version control - Git, SSH and SFTP access with key management
Backups and Restore Manager
DNS service and management
Ultra fast Intel® Xeon®-powered servers
Enterprise SSD RAID 6 arrays
PHP-FPM, OpCache, Memcache, and Redis
Debian 10 "Buster" Linux KVM infrastructure
Guaranteed CPU and RAM allocation
Managed firewall and security rules
Full HTTP/2 support
24/7 server monitoring (over 14,400 daily checks)
Unlimited hosting accounts with a separate free Control Panel
Custom templates for hosting plans
Instant hosting account plan changes
Control over memory, processes, disk space, inodes, and traffic limits
Support for accounts with and without expiration dates
Account Management Panel with disk, traffic, and performance statistics
Central Account Management for all custom and ICDSoft plans
Real-time activation and suspension control over services (web, mail, etc.)
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 single-site 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 single 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.
We have designed the SmartVPS and SmartVPS Pro 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.
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.
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 and SmartVPS PRO plans, we don't limit the number of websites that you can host on your VPS. You are only limited by the resources allocated to the VPS plan that you are using. The First Class Startup, First Class, and Ultimate VPS plans are designed to host one domain name and a number of parked domains that open the same website as the main domain. The main difference with shared hosting plans is that we will not take measures if your account "uses too much resources". You have your own server resources, you can use them in full, and there is no way for you to affect the whole 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 SmartVPS 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, traffic, etc. When setting up individual hosting accounts on a SmartVPS, you can customize the limits for each account such as disk space, traffic, inodes, memory limit, processes limit, 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.
You can get a free domain name and a free SSL certificate with each Startup, First Class, and Ultimate plan. Even if you order just a single month of service, you get a domain name and an SSL certificate valid for a year.
You can choose among all TLDs that we offer for registration. You can register a new domain, renew an existing domain registered by us, or transfer an existing domain currently registered elsewhere. Note that the free domain offer does not cover the price of domains sold on domain auction sites or similar.
As for the free SSL certificate, you can choose between a GeoTrust RapidSSL certificate and a Sectigo Essential certificate.
To get your free domain and/or SSL certificate, just contact our Support Team after you have the account opened.
You can issue free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt through the Control Panel of all VPS plans.
VPS plans are paid on a monthly basis. You can also pay for your VPS account for several months in advance.
There is a fifteen-day money-back guarantee on your first month subscription.
Yes, you can upgrade an existing account to a Managed VPS plan. The upgrade requires the migration of the account to the VPS platform. You need to contact our support team to schedule the migration.
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