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Serverlove clinches knock-out win with Amir Khan

We’re excited to announce that Serverlove, our scalable cloud hosting service is now being used by professional boxer and Olympic silver medallist, Amir Khan for his new website!

Working with our friends Absolute Media in Bolton, we’re providing 24/7 scalable cloud hosting for Khan’s website, e-commerce and image licensing site.

Because Amir’s website traffic fluctuates around his fight schedule, we’re using Serverlove because it allows users to scale their servers up and down as required. This flexibility is a significant advantage and helps manage capacity for one-off situations, such as at launch when Amir tweeted his 1.1 million Twitter followers.

(For the geeks among you, we handled over 12.5 Mbit/second moments after Amir tweeted launching the site.)

We’re really pleased to be one of Team Khan’s partners. And, just like Amir Khan, we can keep handling the hits time after time. Through every round at every match, we’ll be in Team Khan’s corner supporting Amir with reliable server hosting 24/7.

Josh R, head of all the stuff @marsh80 won’t do @ Melbourne

Posted on 21st May 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A new, simpler way to upload your data to Serverlove

Good news, everyone! You can now upload your existing drives and data to Serverlove via FTP.

Serverlove is designed to let you upload and download your data, so that you can be as flexible as you want with migrating to our platform. Also, as you can run the operating system of your choice, you might want to upload an install or a disk image from another server.

If you’re happy with the command line, you can do this quite easily using our API. We even provide scripts for Linux and Mac OS X which Windows users can use with Cygwin.

If, however, you prefer a more drag-and-drop approach, you can now use our FTP server with your favourite FTP client to share data with your Serverlove account. Simply connect to:

ftp://ftp.z1-man.serverlove.com/

using your UUID as the username and API key as the password (you can find these in your Account Profile). Any files uploaded here will be imported to your account a disk, so make sure it’s formatted correctly.

Find out more at our uploading FAQ.

Posted on 24th April 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

An even more secure Serverlove cloud :-)

When you choose to host with us, you’re trusting us with some of your most important information. So it’s important to know that your data is safe and secure. Whether it’s firewalls or physical security, we’ve got it covered.

Serverlove is part of Melbourne Server Hosting and is hosted in secure datacentres that are monitored around the clock. This also means we’ve been ISO 27001-certified – demonstrating our commitment to providing a high-quality and secure service to all our clients. We’re also BS 25999 compliant, demonstrating the measures we have in place to ensure we continue to provide support in the event of a major disruption, such as fire or flood!

Watch a video about the features of the datacentres that host Serverlove.

We’re also now providing an additional layer of security for your servers with the introduction of a firewall in the latest control panel update! Now, when you create or edit servers, you have the option of turning on the firewall and just allowing access to specific ports.

The firewall costs just £2 per month per server, so you can limit port access as needed for different applications. Read more about how it works in our Security FAQ.

To try it out, login to Serverlove now.

Posted on 23rd April 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

New control panel now live!

Sorry for the delay. The Serverlove control panel has been successfully upgraded! Login now to check out the new look and familiarise yourself with the new features.

We listened to your feedback and we’ve deployed a number of new and upgraded features. This means we’ve changed the way a few tasks are achieved within Serverlove.

Here’s a quick rundown of the main updates:

You can now see a useful at-a-glance account summary when you login! This is great for checking up on your servers quickly.
All your cloud servers are now managed under ‘Manage Cloud Servers’. Servers and Drives, Network Resources and Licenses can be added from this panel.
Subscriptions have been replaced with licenses. You now no longer need a subscription for new static IP addresses or VLANs: you can simply add these to your account and they’ll be billed automatically from prepay balance. Conveniently, the servers to which your IP addresses are assigned show up next to the IPs!
You can now set your own rDNS entries rather than having to raise a support ticket. This will make it quicker and easier for you to add any records you may need.
We’ve implemented enhanced fraud protection, meaning that trials can be approved much quicker, along with a number of administration tools that will improve our ability to respond to your queries.
We’ve also updated our Support section to be better structured and we’ll be developing new guides to help you get started quicker and answer common queries. There are a number of new pre-installed cloud server templates in the works, like WordPress and Magento so get in touch and let us know what you think what server templates you want us to create!

As ever, if we can help in any way, do get in touch by emailing us at support@serverlove.com or call on 0870 879 0000.

Josh @ Serverlove

Posted on 22nd March 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Making it lovable – the new Serverlove control panel

I blogged recently about some of the new features of the upgraded Serverlove control panel. In that blog, I wrote that our overriding goal at Serverlove is to make “cloud servers you’ll love!”.

So one of the things we looked at very carefully when designing the upgraded control panel was the look-and-feel of the interface. The existing control panel is definitely functional in approach, which offers clarity and avoids clutter, meaning users can get to grips with it quickly without being distracted. However, we always felt we could offer something even more finely designed while retaining that clarity and functionality. We just wanted to make it that little bit more lovable to use.

So, working with our designers Gavin and front-end developer Phil, we’ve developed a beautiful new theme for the control panel user interface. We’re bringing the look and feel of the Serverlove website right into all areas of the control panel, with gorgeously put-together motifs helping you navigate through the different sections of the interface and space for just enough help text to enhance the ease of use.

We also know it’s not just how it looks, but what is says. Sometimes, in the rush to develop exciting new products, we don’t get to refine the way we say things as much as we’d like. This time, we’ve made an extra effort to make the written copy of Serverlove useful, informative and friendly.

But this upgrade is more than just a facelift. As I mentioned previously, we’re making static IPs and VLANs generally easier to use and you’ll be able to service your own rDNS entries too. Behind the scenes, we’ve tweaked our API to make it respond more like you’d expect.

We also hope to roll-out updates to the control panel on a more frequent and ongoing basis. Many of these will be small things, but we’re also planning to deploy a whole set of new pre-installed server templates in the coming months and we’re looking forward to hearing you what you’d like to see.

The upgrade is due to happen this Thursday between 10:00 am – 12:00 pm so login after midday and check it out for yourself!

Posted on 20th March 2012 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Serverlove control panel update coming soon!

It’s a really busy few days here at Serverlove. If you’re following us on Twitter or you’ve talked to us on the support site, you’ll know we’re on the cusp of launching our new control panel in the next week or so.

Our overriding goal at Serverlove is to make “cloud servers you’ll love!”. That’s not just marketing-speak – we mean it. So that’s why we’ve constantly been listening to your feedback and, over the last few months, planning this new update. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted on 31st January 2012 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

New signup? Double your credit this Monday – today only!

How are your servers doing this Monday?

Today is one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, thanks to the import of an American tradition, Cyber Monday or Mega Monday. A quick search online reveals some hot UK deals that are almost too good to be true (20% off at Best Buy anyone?). But it’s also revealing the strain on shopping site servers, as Mega Monday turns into Manic Monday when thousands of consumers log on for a bargain at lunchtime and after work.

It’s times like this that hosting your servers in the cloud can really help. New product launch? Big sale? Or has your site hit Hacker News? With Serverlove, you can rapidly scale up your server in seconds, so you’re ready when that tweet from Stephen Fry or post on Reddit sends tens of thousands of curious visitors to your site.

Try us out. We’re joining in with this tradition and – today only – we’re doubling your credit when you sign-up with Serverlove. This means you get a whopping £30 of credit to trial Serverlove. And there are pretty much no restrictions!

This is only valid until midnight tonight (28 November 2011, GMT) and for new sign-ups. Have a go with our scalable cloud servers because your hosting should give you Happy Mondays for years to come.

Posted on 28th November 2011 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Price drop on memory, disk storage and data transfer

Hey there Serverlovers,

Just a quick note to update you on some stuff that’s been going on with Serverlove.

PRICING DROP ON SERVERLOVE RESOURCES

The most exciting news is a substantial price drop on memory, disk storage and data transfer. Due to the growth of the platform we’ve been able to lower some of our costs and are delighted to be able to pass them on to you:

Memory will be reduced to 1.5 pence per GB per hour (a 33% reduction on the previous cost) so £7.20 per GB per month.
Disk storage will be reduced to £0.10 per GB per month (a 50% reduction on the previous cost).
Data transfer will be reduced to £0.02 per GB (a 60% reduction on the previous cost). Also remember that you’re only billed for your actual usage with Serverlove.

These changes will take effect overnight on our platform automatically so you don’t need to do anything for this to take effect.

NEW SERVERLOVE CONTROL PANEL

Thanks to the feature feedback that customers have left on our feedback forum at http://feedback.serverlove.com we’re busily working on our version 2 control panel which will bring online a number of new features that you’ve asked for. We’ll be in touch closer to the time to let you know about the upgrade which should be in late September.

SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK

We’re really keen to hear from you about how your experience has been with Serverlove, so send us your feedback (both positive and negative); we’re all ears. If it’s a feature request, best to do this left on our feedback forum at http://feedback.serverlove.com.

That’s about it for now; if you’re a customer, we’ll email you next when we’re ready to go live with our new platform.

Posted on 17th August 2011 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

cPanel and Plesk Licenses Available

If you’re looking for a control panel to run on your cloud server, you’ll be pleased to hear that we offer both Parallels Plesk and cPanel licenses. You can add these to your Serverlove servers simply by contacting support and requesting the appropriate license.

License Pricing

cPanel/WHM Unlimited Domain License **LINUX ONLY** – £29 per month
Plesk 10 Domain License – £9 per month
Plesk 100 Domain License – £25 per month
Plesk Unlimited Domain License – £49 per month
Plesk Plus License – £69 per month

The cost of the license will be deducted from your account every month. Prices are subject to VAT.

Posted on 15th March 2011 in Uncategorized | No Comments »