Servers

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VPS and dedicated servers: how to size one, which control panel to run, what managed and unmanaged really mean, and when a website has outgrown shared hosting.

The move from shared hosting to a server of your own is the point where hosting stops being a product and starts being a decision — about memory, about who patches it, and about the control-panel license that often costs more than the machine. These articles work through those choices, and through what people actually run on a VPS once they have one.

The common thread is that a server is only as useful as what you put on it. A VPS with no control panel is a terminal; a VPS with no backups is a single point of failure; a VPS sized for the busiest hour of the year is money sitting idle for the other 8,759. What we write about here is the middle ground: enough machine, licensed sensibly, with somebody awake when it breaks.

Prices in these articles are in Kenyan shillings and the plans are the ones we sell to customers across Kenya. Our servers are in international data centres — there is no Kenya-located VPS and no Kenyan IP address, and we would rather say so here than imply otherwise.

If what you are looking for is not here, our team answers questions by ticket and live chat around the clock — including the ones that are really about whether you need to buy anything at all. We would rather tell you a cheaper plan covers it than sell you something you will cancel in a month.

Everything we publish is written by the people who administer the servers, so it reflects what we actually do rather than what reads well. Where something depends on your setup, we say so instead of giving an answer that only holds in one case.

Services this covers

• VPS hosting — KVM servers with full root access and DDoS protection.
• Dedicated servers — Whole-machine resources for heavy workloads.
• Cloud storage boxes — RAID-protected backup storage, 1 TB to 20 TB.