Development Virtual Servers
Sandbox Servers Built for Building & Testing
SiteHost's Developer VPS gives you a sandbox environment running on reliable legacy enterprise hardware, for a fraction of the cost.
Need a low-cost environment to test configurations, run staging builds, or break things safely before going live? Our Development Virtual Servers are designed for prototyping, testing and small projects.
Want to tinker on a non-critical side project? Don't worry about disrupting production. Work on a real server, without putting anything else at risk.
Test changes and deployments before hitting your live servers. Reset your server in minutes if things go pear-shaped.
The lowest-risk way to get hands-on experience setting up and maintaining servers. An ideal setup for experiments, student projects, and creative ideas.
Designed for non-production workloads.
As an unmanaged VPS, you get full root access. Install any packages or applications you need, and set them up however you like.
Built with development and testing in mind. Because these servers are designed for non-critical test projects, we're not offering backup services.
These servers are only available to existing customers and students. To make sure there's enough to go around, we've got a limit of two per SiteHost customer.
Each server is provisioned with 1 x IPv4 address. There are no network upgrade paths for any Development Virtual Server.
These servers run on fully-tested, deprecated enterprise nodes with NVMe drives. They operate on a best-effort VM availability basis.
You can get support for your Development Virtual Servers via email. Additionally, Server Management is unavailable for Development Virtual Servers.
The SiteHost Control Panel makes VPS management fast and easy. Manage SSH users, access metrics, take snapshots, and more.
A VPS is your independent, virtualised server. You get complete control over the configuration of your system. It's a low-cost way to access raw resources and do what you want with them.
When you get your VPS from SiteHost you get your full allocation of resources at all times. With the Development VPS tier, you get the full freedom of root access.
Comparing hosting options shows you a Development VPS gives you a safe small isolated development environment, at our lowest price point. If your project has outgrown a Development VPS, look to our Cloud Containers or High Performance Virtual Servers for a production ready server.
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