VPS in the United Kingdom with daily backups

VPS Hosting in the United Kingdom

London holds a special place on the map of the internet: it's the point where European networks meet transatlantic routes to the US. Most submarine cables crossing the Atlantic land here, which is why both Europe and the US East Coast are equally fast to reach from London. Virtual servers here run on the same VMware vSphere platform as the rest of our locations: a new server deploys within minutes, and resources can be adjusted without moving to different hardware.

The UK site is the newest in our network, and we designed it from a clean slate, drawing on all the experience we've accumulated since 2007. Every decision — from hardware selection and network topology to redundancy schemes — was made based on what we've learned from years of running our other locations. The result is a site we're genuinely proud of.

Why Choose a VPS in the United Kingdom

First, unique geography. If your project serves both European and American audiences, London is the best single location: latency to major Western European cities is comparable to intra-European levels, while latency to New York is noticeably lower than from Frankfurt or Amsterdam, thanks to direct transatlantic routes. For SaaS services, APIs, and projects with distributed audiences, this removes the need to maintain two servers on opposite sides of the ocean.

Second, the network. London is home to LINX, one of the oldest and largest internet exchange points in the world. Routes to British and international operators stay short and predictable, which directly translates into stable service response times.

Third, the market and jurisdiction. The UK is Europe's largest English-speaking economy with its own data protection legislation (UK GDPR). For projects targeting British clients, local hosting delivers both minimal latency and compliance with local requirements — after Brexit, that's a separate box that a server in the EU no longer ticks.

And then there's cloud flexibility: vCPU, RAM, and disk space can be scaled on demand, with no hardware procurement or lengthy migrations. Handy during seasonal peaks, new service launches, or active development.

VMware Cloud Platform

As in our other locations, the cloud in London is built on VMware vSphere — an enterprise virtualization platform, not a free hypervisor. The difference shows in critical moments: if a physical node fails, the HA cluster automatically restarts virtual machines on healthy servers, and planned maintenance is handled via live migration — the VPS moves between nodes without service interruption.

The storage layer is built on latest-generation SSD and NVMe — when deploying the new site, we equipped it with the most modern hardware available. In practice, this means fast OS boot times, responsive databases, smooth handling of CI/CD and container environments. There's enough headroom not just for standard web hosting, but also for high-traffic web projects, business applications, and multi-tenant SaaS services.

About the ServerChoice Data Center

Servers are housed in the ServerChoice data center, a TIER III+ facility in London. Power, cooling, and network infrastructure are redundant, the facility is monitored around the clock, and physical access is controlled at multiple levels with video surveillance.

The site's location is an advantage in its own right: proximity to London's key telecom hubs and the LINX exchange simplifies circuit provisioning and provides short routes both across the UK and internationally.

XServer Cloud has been in business since 2007, and the London site is the newest addition to our network, designed with all of that accumulated experience in mind. If your project needs a point between Europe and the US with first-class connectivity in both directions — spin up a VPS in London and see for yourself.

VPS with Backups

A backup is the kind of thing you think about in two situations: when you have one, and when you don't. A failed update, a script error, a hack through a vulnerable plugin, an accidentally deleted database — without a backup, any of these scenarios means hours or days of recovery, and sometimes irreversible data loss. With the backup option from XServer Cloud, it works differently: pick the copy you need, click "Restore" — and within minutes the server is running exactly as it was when the copy was made.

The entire server is backed up: operating system, settings, databases, files — including attached HDD storage. There's nothing to configure, no folders to select, no scripts to write: enable the option, and copies are created on their own, automatically, every day.

How Backup Retention Works

We use a two-tier scheme that covers both recent and older problems:

• Daily backups — the last 7 days are kept. These cover the typical situations: "it worked yesterday" is solved by rolling back to yesterday.
• Weekly backups — the last 4 weeks are kept. These save you when a problem isn't discovered right away: say, a hack or data corruption happened two weeks ago, and you only noticed today.

In total, at any moment you have 11 restore points reaching up to 28 days back. Backups are created automatically at the virtualization platform level — no agents inside your OS, no impact on server performance — and stored separately from the VPS, so they remain available even if something happens to the server itself.

Copies in Another Location: Disaster Protection

Keeping backups next to the server is only half the job: such a copy won't help in a serious facility-level incident. So we go further and apply cross-location replication: backup copies are additionally transferred to another of our data centers, in a different country. Even in the least likely scenario — an entire location going offline — your data stays intact and recoverable. This is a level of disaster resilience that usually only large companies with their own infrastructure build for themselves — with us, it's included in the backup option.

Who Really Needs This

• Online stores and commercial websites — orders, customers, payments: an hour of downtime costs money, and losing the order database costs your reputation.
• Projects with databases — CRM, accounting systems, portals: data accumulated over months deserves protection.
• CMS-based websites — WordPress and its plugins are a frequent target of attacks; rolling back to a pre-hack copy brings back a clean site in minutes.
• Anyone who updates and experiments — OS upgrades, database migrations, new configs: with a backup, no change is risky anymore.
• Teams — the more people with server access, the higher the chance of human error. That's statistics, not pessimism.

Backups vs Snapshots: What's the Difference

Your control panel also offers instant state snapshots — they're handy as insurance during a specific operation: take a snapshot, update the software, confirm everything works, delete the snapshot. But a snapshot is stored together with the virtual machine and doesn't replace a proper backup. Backups are independent copies with a schedule and retention depth, stored away from the server. The right strategy is to use both: snapshots for maneuvers, backups for peace of mind.

When to Consider Other Configurations

The backup option can be added to any VPS — it pairs with basic configurations, VPS for websites, and data storage alike. If you need to manage backups of other servers yourself — for example, collecting copies from several machines in one place — take a look at a VPS for data storage in the role of a backup target.

Enable Backups — and Forget About Them

Add the backup option when ordering your server, or at any point later. From then on, everything happens automatically: copies are created daily, kept for up to 28 days, and a restore takes a few minutes and one click. XServer Cloud — data protected, nerves intact.