USonyx, innovators of the Virtual Private Server (VPS), today announced it will offer a full suite of Linux-based virtual private server (VPS) hosting plans to its growing customer base at the industry's new lowest price point. Providing a full set of applications, services, support and tools designed for the needs of SMBs, USonyx uses the Virtuozzo technology (www.virtuozzo.com) to offer functionality similar to that found in a dedicated server, only for a price closer to that of shared hosting. The company is currently offering a free trial of the hosting service at www.usonyx.com.

USonyx is the brainchild of Internet executives who've recognized the chasm that exists in Web hosting for SMBs. "It's either low-price shared environments with highly restrictive features or expensive dedicated servers that run idle most of the time," said Carlos Flores, General Manager, USonyx. "We have created a full suite of reliable, flexible VPS hosting plans -- made possible by Virtuozzo -- and priced them significantly lower than the competition, without compromising service levels. We feel this gives us a strong competitive advantage and allows us to better serve the needs of the SMB."

"The USonyx network is the result of months of customized development (with SWsoft), aimed at automating operations and creating an efficient infrastructure that supports a wide range of VPS hosting plans," said Tim Smith, CTO, USonyx. "From a technical standpoint, a VPS is mutually beneficial -- end-users can affordably get isolated server environments and (USonyx) saves time and money on hardware, software, system administration and general IT costs --lowering our total cost of ownership (TCO)."

History of the Virtual Private Server (VPS)

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting is blurring the lines between shared and dedicated Web hosting. In a shared hosting schema, multiple customers are housed on a single server and, although price per month tends to be low, this type of environment is not flexible, secure, or stable enough to host a business' Web site. On the other hand, Dedicated-hosting, with one customer on one server, does offer advanced functionality, but at a prohibitively high price-point. A VPS offers customers the "best of both worlds," as it behaves like an isolated stand-alone server, offering the flexibility, power and reliability before only found on a dedicated server -- only for a price comparable to that of shared hosting.

Similar "virtual" capabilities have been proven by enterprises on mainframe systems for over 30 years. USonyx has partnered with SWsoft to implement Virtuozzo (www.virtuozzo.com), which affords the mainframe-computing advantages of security, performance isolation, high-scalability, etc., on Intel-based Dell hardware. Virtuozzo allows USonyx to keep operations and IT costs low and to pass these cost savings onto customers. Every SMB would substantially benefit from hosting its website on a dedicated server, now they can afford it with the introduction of USonyx's VPS services.

"I have evaluated the USonyx VPS offering and have found it to provide the reliability and security that I value in a dedicated server (environment), only for a lot less money," said Nori Nishgaya, Senior Software Developer, Enterprise J-Builder product, Borland Software Corporation.

The USonyx VPS plans provide additional features to shared hosting (for relatively the same price point) and a cost savings of 90% versus dedicated hosting; 30% versus other VPS plans


-- Before factoring IT and system administrator costs and/or implementation charges, the average low-end dedicated server will cost over $4500 a month.
-- VPS plans typically costs more than $2500 a year, aside from implementation and professional services fees. USonyx is offering fully-isolated environment and similar feature sets for under $35 a month ($420 a year) which represent a cost savings of over 30% less than other VPS offerings. Resellers also get VPS hosting capabilities that can be completely re-branded to fit company look and feel for as low as $19 a month.

"The flexibility of the USonyx VE is great for learning environments," Stewart Hersey, Technical Trainer, Stanford University. "It affords all of the benefits of owning your own box, only at a much lower price point."

In addition to the full suite of VPS hosting plans, USonyx also offers basic and advanced shared hosting, and a wide range of applications and services -- all of which can be automatically provisioned "on the fly" and which seriously reduce downtime. The USonyx VPS offering works upon the "needs-based application provisioning" principle, empowering SMBs to affordably "lease" a wide range of applications -- including Web mail, e-commerce and other services from Macromedia, Miva and other top ISVs -- and then easily upgrade to additional plans and services as their business grows.

For more information about the different USonyx VPS plans, please see www.usonyx.com. The USonyx reseller program is in full swing, please contact info@usonyx.com to learn more about highly competitive pricing.