Every Linux VPS we sell is fully managed. Our engineers handle setup, updates, security, and monitoring around the clock, so you can focus on your business instead of your server.
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Every Fully Managed Linux VPS Hosting plan comes fully managed and pro-actively monitored by our team of trained engineers.
For the best level of performance and reliability we use KVM virtualization to keep your VPS completely isolated, and performing well.
Our VPS servers are equipped with enterprise grade Samsung Pro NVMe drives. You will get up to 30x better disk performance compared to a similar VPS with traditional hard drive storage.
Pick a Linux VPS hosting location that best suits you and your customers. We offer VPS in Los Angeles, Buffalo NY, Seattle, Coventry UK, and Singapore.
Every Fully Managed Linux VPS plan reserves dedicated CPU cores on high-end Supermicro nodes, paired with Samsung Pro NVMe drives in RAID-10. Redundant power and network keep your server online, and KVM virtualization keeps your resources isolated from everyone else on the hardware. You get dedicated-server performance without the dedicated-server price.
Pick from five datacenters: Los Angeles, Buffalo NY, Seattle, Coventry UK, and Singapore. Choose the Linux distribution that fits your applications, including AlmaLinux and Ubuntu. You have full root access over SSH at any time, and our engineers handle the security and maintenance behind it.
Fully managed means we run the server, not just rent it to you. When you order a Linux VPS from SolaDrive, our engineers handle the initial setup, install and configure your stack, apply security hardening, and keep everything patched from that point on.
Our support team is based in the US and available 24 hours a day with a 15-minute average response time. There is no tiered script to work through and no handoff to a different timezone overnight. The engineer who answers your ticket can log into the server and fix the problem.
Day to day, we handle operating system updates, security patches, service configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting when something breaks. We monitor every managed Linux server for resource exhaustion, failed services, and unusual activity, and we act on alerts before most customers notice anything.
Migration is included at no cost. Give us root access to your current server and we plan the move, copy your data, test the result, and cut over with minimal downtime. We have moved customers from shared hosting, from other VPS providers, and from their own colocated hardware.
Every Fully Managed Linux VPS Hosting plan includes daily and weekly offsite backups stored on separate backup servers, free SSL certificates, DDoS protection, and a 100% network uptime SLA. cPanel is available as an addon but is not required. We manage servers running DirectAdmin, Plesk, or no control panel at all.
SolaDrive has been doing this since 2009. If a request is technical and relates to your VPS, it is covered.
Every SolaDrive Linux VPS runs on KVM virtualization. KVM gives each VPS its own kernel and a genuinely isolated environment, rather than sharing one kernel across every container on the node the way OpenVZ and similar container platforms do.
The practical difference is resource guarantees. Your CPU cores, RAM, and disk are allocated to your VPS and stay allocated. A neighbor running a heavy import or taking a traffic spike does not pull capacity away from you. Container platforms oversell by design and let tenants borrow from each other, which is why performance on those platforms swings.
KVM also lets you do things container hosts block. You get full root access over SSH, and you can load kernel modules, run Docker, set your own firewall rules, mount filesystems, and run software that needs low-level access. Your managed Linux server behaves like a dedicated server because at the kernel level it is one.
You choose the Linux distribution. AlmaLinux and Ubuntu are the most common requests and we support both, along with other mainstream distributions. If you need a specific version for application compatibility, tell us during setup and we will build it that way.
Every node runs on high-end Supermicro hardware with redundant power feeds and redundant network connections, and nodes are deliberately not oversold.
Resources are easy to change later. Upgrade CPU, RAM, or storage from your client area at any time. Because resources are dedicated rather than shared, a reboot is usually required for the new allocation to take effect, and that is the only interruption.
Every SolaDrive Linux VPS plan uses Samsung Pro NVMe drives in a RAID-10 array. There is no slower SATA tier, no spinning disk option, and no surcharge for the fast storage.
NVMe connects to the CPU over PCIe instead of going through the SATA controller, which removes the bottleneck older drives were built around. A SATA SSD tops out around 550 MB/s. NVMe runs several gigabytes per second and handles far more simultaneous operations. Against traditional hard drives, the gap is up to 30x on disk performance.
That shows up anywhere your server waits on disk. Database queries return faster. Page loads drop. Backups and restores finish in a fraction of the time. Bulk imports and large file transfers stop being an overnight job. Sites running WordPress, Magento, or any database-driven application feel it immediately, because those workloads are mostly small random reads, which is what NVMe handles best.
RAID-10 matters as much as the drive type. It mirrors and stripes at the same time, so you get the read performance of striping along with redundancy. A drive can fail without taking your data or your server down, and we replace it without downtime.
For the detailed numbers, our HDD vs SSD vs NVMe comparison page breaks down the differences across all three storage types.
We have answered some of the most commonly asked questions about our Linux VPS Hosting below.
NVMe SSD is much faster than SATA SSD, in fact, about 7x faster! Take a look at our HDD vs SSD vs NVMe comparison page that goes into detail about the differences.
Yes of course! What good would a Fully Managed Linux VPS Hosting be if it didn’t include free migration? Once you have ordered, please provide us your previous servers root logins so we can begin the assessment and migration plan to have a successful, problem free, zero downtime migration.
We have 5 different locations you can choose from to have your VPS hosted:
Upgrading your VPS is easy and can be done at any time from
your Client Control Panel.
This will typically require a reboot though for changes to
take affect since all resources are dedicated.
Your VPS will be deployed instantly upon successful payment. Paying by Credit Card can sometimes have a delay of up to 30 minutes if its flagged for fraud review by the Credit Card processor.
All of our services come fully managed and that means we take care of all technical issues for you. We’ll handle everything other providers can’t or may not want to such as guaranteeing a trouble-free initial migration, performance optimizations, third party software, pro-active monitoring, backups, ongoing system and security updates, along with so much more. We have no limits to any technical request for your VPS, within reason.
You will get notified by our system when you get close to your bandwidth limit and also when you go over it. No service interruption will occur, but we do charge $0.050/GB over your quota.
Yes, unlike many other providers, we give you full root access to your VPS. After all, it’s your VPS so you shouldn’t be limited for something you are paying for.
We do not provide a trial period or demo for VPS. However,
we do provide a 30-day money back guarantee so you can
purchase and use our Linux VPS Hosting risk free for 30 days. At the end of
the month, if the VPS didn’t meet your expectations, you can
ask for a full refund.
Unfortunately you won’t, as we take backups at the node
level. All backups are snapshots of each VPS and stored as a
compressed file on our backup servers for quick and reliable
restores.
We offer cPanel during checkout as an addon for an
additional fee. This is based on the number of cPanel accounts you have.
Yes, we allow adult sites, as long as they comply with the laws of the United States.
