Semi Dedicated Hosting High Specification Hosting at Affordable Prices for Busy Sites
Sometimes a website just needs that little bit more power behind it. If you have an eCommerce shop you rely on or a busy personal site, then our Semi Dedicated Hosting can be the ideal hosting solution for your site! Each Semi Dedicated server has 10-20 times fewer accounts than Shared, giving you access to a large share of a powerful 16 core, 20GB RAM server at a fraction of the cost of Dedicated .
Semi Dedicated is fully managed by us. Site owners have cPanel, FTP and SSH (jailshell) access but no root. Resources are managed via the innovative CloudLinux OS which ensures that no user can impact on another account's performance.
Own several sites? Take a look at our "Hybrid" package which gives you 1 Semi Dedicated account and a separate Shared Reseller package for up to 25 other sites at one combined lower price. The two parts of the package are located on two separate servers.
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| 1 cPanel account 20GB disk space 250GB monthly bandwidth |
1 cPanel account 30GB disk space 350GB monthly bandwidth |
Get a Semi Dedicated & Shared Multi-Site package combined. Ideal for 1 large & 1-25 other sites. |
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| Monthly exc VAT | £49.95 / month | £74.95 / month | £59.95 / month | |
| Pay yearly & Save! | £499.50 / year Save £99.90! |
£749.50 / year Save £149.90! |
£599.50 / year Save £119.90! |
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| Max number of cPanel accounts | 1 Semi Dedicated | 1 Semi Dedicated | 1 Semi | 25 Shared |
| Disk Space Allocation | 20GB | 30GB | 20GB Semi | 5GB Shared |
| Premium Bandwidth per month | 250GB | 350GB | 250GB Semi | 30GB Shared |
| Near Continuous Data Protection |  Offsite backups every 6 hours via R1Soft, kept for 2 weeks |
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| Server Settings |  UK Server Location cPanel PHP5.3 MySQL5.1.x
Up to 4x faster than standard Shared Hosting! Apache, FastCGI and Nginx as reverse proxy. DELL r140 server with 15k rpm SAS drives, RAID10, 20GB RAM, 16 processors. |
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| Softaculous Script Installer | Install 260+ free scripts with one click!  Script List |
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| Speedy, Knowledgeable Support |  Helpdesk available 7 days a week (Mon-Fri 9am-10pm / Weekend 11am-5pm). |
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| Free transfer of existing site | yes  |
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| Email Accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| MySQL databases | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| FREE shared ssl cert |  |
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| Dedicated IP Address | £20.43 per IP / year | |||
| SSL & Dedicated IP Bundle | £75 / year per domain for GeoTrust QuickSSL Certificate with Site Seal & Dedicated IP. | |||
| Email Features | POP3, IMAP and SMTP • Email aliasing • Email forwarding • Autoresponders • Out of Office / Vacation responders | |||
| Webmail via cPanel | Choice of Roundcube, Squirrelmail and Horde |
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| Logs and Statistics | Webalizer, Awstats and Raw Access Logs |
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| Sub-domains / Parked Domains Add-on Domains |
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| Email Lists | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| FTP Accounts | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
| WebDav or Frontpage | yes |
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| Shell Access (jailshell) | yes |
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All prices exc 20% VAT. Frontpage on request. Free Domain and Shared SSL offers do not apply to SD packages.
Semi Dedicated Performance
| Semi Dedicated | Shared | |
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| AB Benchmarking Higher RPS values mean faster load speeds |
15.82 RPS (requests per second) | 4.17 RPS (requests per second) |
| Server Configuration | Apache with FastCGI and Nginx as reverse proxy | Apache with suPHP |
| CloudLinux Resource Allocations | up to 4 CPUs 40 concurrent processes |
up to 2 CPUs 30 concurrent processes |
FAQs
- Q: Can I have multiple websites under 1 Semi Dedicated package?
- A: Each SD package is structured around 1 cPanel account. You can add additional domains with their own web space as "add-on domains" but you cannot create separate cPanel accounts for each site. Details on how "add-on domains" work are here: Subdomains, Parked Domains and Addon Domains .
- Q: Does Semi Dedicated give me root access?
- A: No. Semi Dedicated packages are located on one server and therefore root access is firmly restricted to server admins only.
- Q: Can I change the server modification or install programs which require root access?
- A: Probably not. Some modifications we may able to help with, but generally any program that requires root access is not suitable for our Semi Dedicated hosting packages.
- Q: How does CloudLinux work?
- A: CloudLinux keeps each account in its own virtualized environment (LVE) with a predetermined amount of resources. Should any account on the server receive a sudden load spike, then the effects are contained to the LVE and don't impact on any other account.
- Q: What do I need to look after?
- A: Generally, the site owner is responsible for the software running on their site, so any software version upgrades, modifications etc are your responsibility. Anything to do with the server itself, such as PHP/MySQL, firewalls, security etc we look after.
- Q: I can't find a package that fits me - do you offer any other packages?
- A: Yes, we can provide custom quotes. Please get in touch with details of your requirements.
- Q: Where are you located?
- A: The servers are located in secure UK data centres (Centro, Telstra). Our office is in Wroxham, Norfolk, UK.
- Q: Can I install my own SSL Certificate?
- A: Yes, just order the Dedicated IP Address from us and then install your own certificate.
