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We’re in the business of looking after your business.

Placing our clients at the centre of all that we do, we provide bespoke Linux hosting and support solutions that fully optimise the everyday on-line availability, performance and security your business needs.

Your success is our success. We pride ourselves on forming client relationships where we can provide effective managed hosting solutions and support services and server administration that give you increased profitability and peace of mind. Our difference is in the detail, shared with you through our experience, expertise and passion for all things Linux.

Welcome to a new and better world of hosting and support; welcome to ForLinux.

ForLinux News


ForLinux Launches its First Cloud Computing Service Based in the UK.
ForLinux will host the ECP cloud computing platform within its UK based datacenter, enabling ForLinux’s customer to access computing capacity on demand. ForLinux’s Cloud Computing service is expected to be available to customers on 1st August 2009. read more

ForLinux Focus - Security

Hacking Incidents Are Increasing – How Vulnerable Is Your Site or Server?
The UK is seeing a noticeable increase of incidents where SSH access is being breached by hackers, putting businesses like yours at serious risk. Hackers are using multiple servers to gain SSH access, which is effectively disabling the firewall and exposing server security, making businesses extremely vulnerable.
With our FREE SECURITY SCAN you can prevent this from happening!

RSS Open Source News

  • President Lula's Speech at FISL 10 (English Translation)
    The following is an English translation of the speech President Luis Ignatio Lula de Silva gave at the 10th FISL conference. I was there and heard a live, simultaneous translation of this speech courtesy of former OSI board member Bruno Souza. Well, actually, Dilma spoke for the Brazillian government. There was no need for me to say absolutly nothi […]
Scalable solutions

“I must admit it’s been excellent since the changes went in a couple of months ago with memcache being a major benefit to us. If you hadn’t come up with that as a potential fix then quite frankly I don’t know where we’d be right now!
In terms of online orders July was a record month [...]

Intuitive understanding

MORTONS PRINT LIMITED
Mortons is a thriving, independent and award-winning printing and
publishing company with a worldwide customer base and a long, proud
history of embracing the latest technical innovations to maintain the highest
quality standards.
Jason Williams, E-business Manager, Mortons Print Ltd:
“We have been with ForLinux since around January 2005 and we first came
to them because of a recommendation [...]

Linux Web Hosting

Linux solution helps company continue 163% growth
Linux has rapidly evolved from a niche and hobbyist toy to a credible environment in use at many businesses. Mainstream businesses are now seeing that Linux is maturing as a credible alternative to other operating environments from the cost, resource and control perspectives. Linux is well known for it’s [...]

Linux Managed Hosting Solution

“What we needed was a managed hosting solution that would provide an automatic backup when a problem was detected on the live web server. The ForLinux failover server provides the exact solution. ForLinux implemented and delivered the system on time and to budget. I am confident that our disaster recovery procedures are now in place [...]

Amazon Cloud EC2 Pricing Summary

Amazon Cloud EC2 Pricing Summary
Amazon Web Services (aka EC2, Amazon Cloud Computing, AWS) provide you with the ability to create virtual servers and only pay for them while they are in use. The virtual servers (known as Instances) can be various sizes ,in terms of CPU, RAM and temporary disk space. Disk space is temporary, [...]

PHP Training

Building Rich Internet Applications with PHP5 & AJAX 21st April Duration 3 days, £900

PHP Certification Training 28th April Duration 3 days, £995

Building Rich Internet Applications With PHP 5 & AJAX
This course ensures a lot of practical application-building exercises to ensure that you don’t just understand the theory, but fully understand the functionalities behind [...]

Linux Training

For Linux Training are currently offering:

LPI 101/102 training is targeted towards junior to mid-level Linux system administrators. The course covers two areas: Linux Fundamentals/Linux System and Network Administration.
LPI 201/202 training is an intermediate-level course. The course demonstrates how to administer Linux-only and Linux-mixed networks.

Generally, the training courses are delivered in Newark over a 5-day period.
Dates [...]

RedHat Support Services

ForLinux can support all distributions of Redhat Linux.
Unlike RedHat support services, ForLinux will support the application (but not limited to)  MySQL, Apache, PHP and Tomcat.
If you require a UK based managed support contract, with certified engineers please call us on 01636 881200 or complete the contact form on the right.