Linux Hosting Support

With a passionate technical team, fully committed to the development and progress of Open Source, ForLinux offers its clients first class support solutions every time.

Our client-centric approach means your support needs are given top priority. ForLinux technicians are recruited and trained with this as a key performance measurement – we won’t accept anything less and nor should you.

ForLinux Support – our difference:

  • ForLinux take support seriously. 100% of ForLinux clients rely on the ForLinux support team for their day-to-day revenue generating website or e-business. This level of support will provide you with the peace of mind that your website and your clients’ websites are up and running 24 hours a day.
  • ForLinux do not support any Microsoft Windows servers. Other suppliers skills and resources are split between Windows and Linux.
  • ForLinux only do Linux. You will benefit from over 100 years of combined technical support experience. All ForLinux technical support personnel are certified to Linux Professional Institute level 1 or 2.
  • ForLinux Flexibility. All Linux distributions are supported. ForLinux will advise the best solution for you based on the experience of the team and your needs.
  • ForLinux Philosophy – be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Unlike other hosting providers who tell you what to do, ForLinux will actually login and do it for you.

ForLinux provide support for all major Open Source applications such as

  • Linux Operation System (Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora)
  • Apache Web Server
  • Lighttpd Web Server
  • JAVA servers (JBOSS, Tomcat)
  • PHP, PERL , JAVA and Ruby languages
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL

Do you currently have a support issue?

Then let us help you, quickly and effectively. Don’t settle for recurring support issues or be fobbed off – give us a call today on 0845 4210444 and experience the difference ForLinux technical support can bring to you and your business!

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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.
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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.