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Providing Managed, Dedicated Hosting & Linux Server Support

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 that your business requires.

We have over 100 years combined experience providing Managed Dedicated Hosting and Server Support for Linux and Open Source applications including Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Managed Linux Hosting

Our Web Hosting solutions range from Virtual Private Servers to Single Dedicated Servers all the way up to High Availability Clusters.

All our of servers are fully managed and run on our managed network, to ensure maximum Server Security.

Our Managed Dedicated Servers comprise the latest hardware, installed software tailored to your needs, Critical Server Monitoring and Server Support backed up by our detailed Service Level Agreement.

Linux Server Support

With extensive experience and knowledge of Linux and Open Source applications we provide first class Server Support for all of our clients.

From Emergency Linux Support or Server recovery & Server patching to Linux Sys Admin and MySQL optimisation, ForLinux support technicians have all the skills to get you back up and running, and to pro-actively keep your servers secure and running quickly.

Our Proactive Support includes all the benefits of an Unlimited server support contract with active Linux Server Monitoring to look for potential issues, and administering fault fixing and System Administration, before an issue becomes a major problem.

ForLinux News

Bringing Professional Standards to Hosting & Support

ForLinux is delighted to announce that it has been awarded both the BS9001 Quality Standard and the ISO 27001 Information Security Standard Accreditations. These accreditations are testament to the high level of Server Management & Support services the company provides when Hosting and Supporting business critical applications on behalf of its clients. Read more
Xen solution meets e-commerce demand

“A lot of hosting companies talk about 99.999% SLA, this means nothing if their support fails to deliver but with ForLinux’s support you know you’re in good hands. I’ve just checked one of our older servers that’s due to be replaced this year, it’s uptime is 902 Days! Needless to say ForLinux will be handling the upgrade.” Ashley Peake, Technical Director, Rapid Web Ltd.

Proactive monitoring service is crucial

“The proactive monitoring service that ForLinux provide is crucial to our business. When a problem occurs, the ForLinux team ring us with a potential solution, which they are ready to work on straight away”. Sam Phillips, Technical Director, Setfire Media.

“The level of support ForLinux offer is very high”

“The ForLinux team are very knowledgeable and there is always someone who can deal with the problems and errors we incur. I wouldn’t dream of hosting my dedicated server alone, without that extra support”. Chris Chaplow, Managing Director, Andalucia.com

“ForLinux are a world apart”

“Compared to other hosting and support companies we have dealt with, ForLinux are a world apart. In our experience the level of service provided by ForLinux is very high”. Alan Taylor, Managing Director, Blue Chip Vacations

Understanding “Support”

“Thanks for your help. If only all the companies we deal with understood what “support” means as well as you do.” – Mike Busuttili, Webmaster, Eaton Publications.

“Five year partnership speaks for itself”

“They’re very good at being proactive rather than reactive. The five years of partnership pretty much speaks for itself. And it has been improving all the time, so satisfaction levels are still high. The price is surprisingly good as well for the kind of industry they’re in, so that’s another plus point. ” Danny Ramdenee, Head of IT, Insurancewide

“Application uptime is above 99.98%”

“The ForLinux organisation appears the perfect size to perform its function well, it is large enough not be reliant on one or two people but small enough to ensure that, as the customer, you know the technical staff and they know you. I have great confidence in the technical competence of the ForLinux team.” – John Latham, Managing Director, Cognovi.

“Customer service is phenomenal”

“I respect the service that the company provide & it is nice to finally find a hosting company that operates in the same way as we do, in terms of ethos. It sounds like a cliché but the Customer service really is phenomenal!” – Stafford Sumner, Managing Director, Jarrang.

Deploying virtual servers on Amazon

Creating a Linux Server in the Cloud
Technical Director of ForLinux Ltd, Steve Nice, recently wrote an article for .Net Magazine, which demonstrates how to set up an Amazon Web Services EC2 Instance, running Linux and Apache.
The feature contains a step by step tutorial guide to installing and deploying virtual servers on the Amazon EC2 network [...]

Scaling Apache, MySQL & PHP

Overview of Scaling your Apache PHP MySQL Hosted website
This is a short post on the basic principles of scaling your Apache PHP MySQL based hosted website.
Scaling your website isn’t as simple as introducing a new web server.  It is easy to upgrade the hardware however, there are the issues associated with migrating the website to [...]

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, [...]

Tomcat Apache

ForLinux Dedicated servers are supported by Linux Professionals who will be able to assist you in configuration and installation of Tomcat.  Complete the contact form on the right to discuss the best options for your hosting.