When choosing a VPS service most UK businesses are unaware of the implications of offshore alternatives from US and European providers. To business owners the bottom line often comes down to price and the first result in Google dictating the decision to purchase.

In a recent case study it was revealed that most online UK business owners were rarely aware of the physical location of the server hosting their site and whether that made any difference apart from the billing.

With Google’s recent announcement regarding the importance of performance and page load time to its ranking algorithm there are some compelling reasons for online UK businesses to switch to a UK VPS offering. All VirtuaHost VPS servers are served from powerful host machines hosted in Maidenhead, just outside of London.

With a server located in the UK not only will your customers receive the best performance possible within their geographical location but it has also been shown from Google’s analysis of page load time that this is often a subtle yet very important factor to decisions consumers make when purchasing on the web.

If you are a online UK business with a UK consumer base then why not ask us about our UK VPS offering today?

In this how-to guide we will go through the steps required to install and run your own Ruby on Rails installation with Apache running on a CentOS 5 VPS server. This guide will introduce the basic steps but does not provide advanced user information or configuration details for Ruby on Rails. Please consult the Ruby on Rails site for more information.

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In this guide we will go through the steps required to get your very own subversion revision control system installed and running on a CentOS 5 VPS server. This guide introduces the basic concepts and does not provide any advanced user information. Please consult the Subversion site for more information.

Want a CentOS VPS server to get your very own Subversion source control setup? Why not sign-up to our CentOS VPS packages today?

Getting started

To get started, you will need to grab a copy of PuTTY and have a fresh/clean installation of CentOS 5.x. This guide does not provide information on how to use PuTTY, so please consult the documentation available on the PuTTY site for how to configure and connect to your server through SSH.

Prerequisites

1. A fresh installation of CentOS 5.x with SSH enabled
2. Working installation of yum on your CentOS 5.x machine
3. Working installation of PuTTY on your local machine

First we will need to make sure our yum packages are all up to date:

[root@test ~]# yum update

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In this guide we will go through the process of installing a Linux Apache Mysql PHP installation on a Centos 5 VPS server.

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It brings us great pleasure to announce the launch of our much anticipated UK virtual private server hosting offering; building upon the success of Freewind Hosting, VirtuaHost provides the very latest in Virtual Private server offerings to the UK sector.

Tired of shared or reseller hosting? Paying more than you need to for a fully dedicated server? Then our UK VPS packages are the solution for you! Our UK VPS servers offer you better security, stability, performance and control over your hosting.