September 27, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web host Host Color (http://www.hostcolor.com) has launched Virtuozzo powered VPS, it was announced recently. The company, which bills itself as “a global quality web hosting company”, is offering a "VPS Start" package (with 192MB RAM, 10GB of disk space and 50GB of data transfer per month) at “entry-level” prices that make it “one of the best priced entry-level virtual private servers in the industry”.
VPS Start is offered with a choice of web hosting control panels including Plesk, cPanel and its proprietary “NextColor” hosting automation system. An alternative fully managed offering, "FM VPS", is also available at a monthly fee. FM VPS includes an initial set-up, IP management, OS installation and maintenance, anti-virus and anti-spam installation, reboots, VPS recovery, control panel updates, and resource monitoring. Cent OS powers the company’s VPS accounts, but other Linux distributions can be installed either by the customer or as a part of "FM VPS" service agreement.
“We customize VPS hosting to better serve our business hosting customers,” explained Host Color’s Managing Director, Alexander Avramov. “This means a choice of Linux OS distribution, installation and maintenance of all applications they can run under Linux OS in their virtual servers”. Customization also applies to the company’s shared hosting services, which include WordPress Blog Hosting.
