Managed Ubuntu VPS hosting
from setup to monitoring

A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is an isolated virtual machine set up within a physical server, with its own operating system, its own file system and guaranteed resources. It behaves as though it were your own server, with root access and software you can install freely, while several tenants share the physical hardware. It's the right fit once shared hosting falls short: for a website that generates revenue, a webshop, a business application and any service that needs its own software environment. Modern virtualisation (typically KVM) guarantees that neighbouring instances can't access each other's data or resources.

A VPS running on default settings can actually be slower than a well-optimised shared hosting plan. The advantage of a VPS is control: you decide which cache layer runs, how much memory the database gets and which PHP settings apply. The speed comes from that control, provided someone competent puts it to use.

While your WordPress site serves a few thousand visitors a month and runs few plugins, good WordPress hosting is enough. Switching becomes worthwhile once the admin panel slows down, the hosting plan flags CPU or memory limits, a WooCommerce store is running on it, or you need a layer shared hosting won't allow: a Redis object cache, custom PHP settings, server-side tracking. On a VPS, WordPress gets its own PHP-FPM pool, an in-memory object cache and a page cache, which is what makes it noticeably faster.

A dedicated server rental means a whole physical machine, from around €100 a month upwards, with hardware swaps needed to scale up. A VPS gives you guaranteed resources for a fraction of that price and can be scaled up within minutes. For most websites and webshops, a VPS is the economical choice; a dedicated server is only justified for large, sustained load or compliance requirements. You'll find the detailed comparison in the table above.

Ubuntu Server is the most widely used Linux distribution for web hosting, which brings two practical benefits: there's an official package and documentation for almost every piece of software, and any issue you hit is very likely to already have a known fix. LTS (Long Term Support) releases get five years of standard security support, so your Linux server stays updatable for years without a full version upgrade every six months.

Our service is built on Ubuntu LTS, because web systems (PHP, Node.js, Python, MySQL, Redis, Varnish) run on it most stably and most cost-effectively, without a Windows licence fee. If your application specifically needs Windows Server, mention it at the assessment stage: we'll look into whether a Linux environment could replace it.

Technically, a VPS is capable of running a game server too, but our service specialises in server management for business websites, webshops and web applications. For renting a Minecraft server or another game server, dedicated game-server hosting providers offer a more convenient, ready-configured solution.

VPS hosting with a Hungarian provider starts from around €10 a month for a smaller machine with one or two vCPUs, rising in proportion to size. That's just the cost of the hardware. On top of that comes the one-off setup, which turns a raw installation into a secured, tuned environment, plus the monthly fee for ongoing management if you leave the supervision to us. You'll find the exact price bands in the pricing section.

For a brochure site, a smaller WordPress site or a test environment, even a cheap VPS package is fine, provided it's built on KVM virtualisation and gives guaranteed memory. What matters more than the price is what runs on it and who manages it: an unconfigured, unpatched cheap VPS is the most expensive option in the end, because recovering it costs more than years of management fees. For a webshop — especially a VPS for Magento — it's worth looking at memory and NVMe storage first, with the number of cores coming after that.

You rent the server directly from the provider, with the subscription in your own name, so the machine and access stay yours throughout. We help you choose the provider and the package, then carry out the setup and management. For a Hungarian audience, we recommend a Hungarian data centre, such as Rackhost's VPS range. We can also take over an existing server rented elsewhere, after an assessment.

The monthly cost of managed server support depends on the level you choose: the Supervision package is €50–120 a month (+VAT), Operations is €120–300, and Business continuity is €300–800 a month. The difference comes down to response time, how often updates are applied, how long backups are kept and whether there's weekend cover. The one-off setup starts from €200 (+VAT).

It depends on the platform, the size of your catalogue and your traffic. A WooCommerce store with a few hundred products usually runs comfortably on a few vCPUs and a couple of gigabytes of memory, while a Magento 2 system needs meaningful memory just for indexing and the search engine. We always size the VPS from actual load data and choose a scalable package rather than an oversized one from the start.

In two directions. Vertically: you can request more vCPUs and memory from the provider, which usually means a brief restart. Horizontally: the web layer and the database can be split across separate machines, a load balancer can be put in front, and static content can be moved to a CDN. For most webshops, the first route is enough for a long time; the second comes into play once traffic genuinely demands it.

An environment for an average website comes together in 2–4 business days, from the assessment to going live. For a webshop, where a caching layer, a search engine and performance tuning are also needed, that's 4–10 business days. The migration time depends mainly on the amount of data and the state of the old environment, because mapping an undocumented server that's grown over years can sometimes take longer than the move itself.

Yes, and with proper planning the downtime is measured in minutes. Our server migration service works like this: we build and test the new environment in advance, lower the DNS time-to-live (TTL) the day before, then switch over and copy the latest data during a low-traffic window. We keep the old server running in parallel for a few more days, so there's a fallback if needed.

If most of your visitors are Hungarian, a Hungarian or Central European data centre makes sense: the shorter network path gives a measurably better response time, which also shows up in your Core Web Vitals. For an international audience, a CDN evens out the difference. From a data protection standpoint, a data centre within the EU is the easiest choice to defend.

Yes, and it's often the most economical option. The key is isolation: each site gets its own system user, its own PHP-FPM pool and its own database access, so a security issue on one site leaves the others untouched. What's worth watching is not placing a resource-hungry project alongside a high-traffic webshop that peaks at the same time.

If we're handling the management, a control panel is usually unnecessary: cPanel and Plesk mean a licence fee, extra resource use and another attack surface. If you need a self-service interface, for example to manage hosting for several clients, one can be installed, and there are free alternatives too. We'll clarify this at the assessment stage.

Yes, on request we set up a separate staging environment alongside the live one, either on the same VPS or on a separate machine. Updates, new development work and larger configuration changes run here first and only go live after they've been checked. For a webshop, this is the foundation of safe management.

Technically, yes, but running a mail server is one of the trickiest server tasks: deliverability depends on IP reputation and on getting SPF, DKIM and DMARC exactly right. We set up your website's transactional emails (order confirmations, form submissions) properly from the VPS; for your full company email, we often recommend a dedicated email service instead. We make that decision together at the assessment stage.

A server-side Google Tag Manager container runs on its own and uses resources in proportion to your traffic. For low to medium traffic, a dedicated VPS is more than enough, with its own subdomain and certificate. The advantage is that tracking becomes independent of third-party scripts, your advertising data is more accurate, and you have better control, from a data protection standpoint, over what leaves the system.

As secure as its management makes it. Within hours of going live, a fresh Ubuntu VPS running on default settings starts facing automated password-guessing attempts. That's why our setup includes key-based SSH access, disabling password logins, a default-deny firewall (UFW), automatic banning of repeat attempts (Fail2Ban) and minimising the set of running services, all part of proper server hardening. Most compromised servers fall victim to a missed update.

Protection works in several layers. On the server, the firewall, Fail2Ban and Nginx rate limiting filter out repeated, malicious requests. Large-scale DDoS protection operates at the network level, provided by the provider's data centre and a filtering layer placed in front, typically Cloudflare. Together, the two layers keep the site reachable even under attack.

Let's Encrypt gives exactly the same strength of encryption as a paid SSL certificate, and browsers trust it just the same. It renews automatically on the server, and we monitor the expiry separately as well. A paid (OV or EV) certificate is worth it when verified display of your company name is a contractual or compliance requirement.

On its own, rarely. A provider snapshot is taken of the whole machine, is often stored on the same infrastructure and is kept for only a short time. If you just need to restore one table or one file, a snapshot is too blunt a tool, and if your provider account itself is compromised, the snapshot goes with it. That's why we always set up a separate, versioned backup as well, stored on independent storage.

After a compromise, instead of cleaning the infected system, we build a clean environment, because afterwards no one can say with certainty that every backdoor is gone. The procedure: isolate the server, identify how the intrusion happened from the logs, then build a clean environment and restore the data under controlled conditions, closing off the exploited hole at the same time. This is exactly why a working backup system is worth so much.

In many cases, it's worthwhile. Even Cloudflare's free tier gives you DDoS protection, bot filtering and a global cache for static content, which, alongside a Hungarian VPS, also gives international visitors a good response time. When setting it up, the caching layers need to work in harmony with each other. If you need it, we handle the setup and fine-tuning too.

With an unmanaged VPS, the provider supplies the virtual machine and the network; everything else is your responsibility: installation, security, updates, backups, troubleshooting. With managed VPS hosting, an operator takes that on for you. The difference shows up when something goes wrong: on an unmanaged machine, the provider will only confirm that the virtual machine itself is running, and finding the fault in your website is left to you.

On the server side, yes. Linux server management for an average web environment isn't enough to justify a full-time system administrator role, but it does require real expertise. The monthly management fee is a fraction of an employee's cost, and in return you get continuous expertise and availability. Managing office computers and an internal network is a different discipline; there, we work alongside your existing system administrator or in-house IT person, and for many clients we provide server-level support in addition to their internal team.

Yes. The server is your property or your subscription, so full access comes with it, along with written documentation of the environment. Our only request is that, while we're managing it together, we agree on any manual configuration changes, because an undocumented change is the most common reason a previously stable system suddenly breaks.

The server, the domain, the backups and the documentation stay yours; we hand over access to the next operator with a formal handover record. The environment is standard Ubuntu with standard services, so any competent professional can take it over.

Every server we manage is monitored around the clock with automatic alerting, so we typically know about a problem before your visitors do. We act on incidents as a priority; the committed response time varies by package and is set out in writing. For business-critical systems, we agree an individual SLA.

We use it. WebPot DEV's own systems, including this website and the webshops we develop, run on Ubuntu VPS environments built on exactly the same principles. What we recommend to clients has already proven itself with us.