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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.
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Developer VPS Features

Break things safely

Need a low-cost environment to test configurations, run staging builds, or break things safely before going live? Our Developer VPS is designed for prototyping and testing.

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Try anything

Want to experiment with a new project? Don't worry about disrupting production. Test prototypes on a real server without putting anything else at risk.

Experiment and rebuild

Test changes and deployments before hitting your live servers. Reset your server in minutes if things go pear-shaped.

Safe learning space

The lowest-risk way to get hands-on experience setting up and maintaining servers. An ideal setup for experiments, student projects, and creative ideas.

Low cost Virtual Servers

Designed for non-production workloads.

Development Virtual Servers
$ 7.50
/mo
(NZD excl. GST)
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  • 1 Cores
  • 1.5GB RAM
  • 15GB Storage
  • 100GB Intl. Bandwidth
  • 2TB Domestic Bandwidth

Root access

As an unmanaged VPS, you get full root access. Install any packages or applications you need, and set them up however you like.

Designed for development

Built with development and testing in mind. Because these servers are designed for non-critical test projects, we're not offering backup services.

Eligible customers

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 Dev VMs per SiteHost customer.

Network & IP

Provisioned with 1 x IPv4 address. There are no native IPv6 or network upgrade paths for any Developer VPS.

Best-effort infrastructure

These servers run on fully-tested, deprecated enterprise nodes with NVMe drives. They operate on a best-effort VM availability basis.

Ticket & email support

Support requests are handled via our ticket system and email. Server Management is unavailable for any Developer VPS.

Frequently Asked Questions

We've designed the Development VPS service specifically for our existing clients and students. To spin one up, you must have at least one active production server running on your account or currently be studying at an educational institution. Contact us and send us a scan of your student ID to get verified as a student.
These servers are limited to a single plan at present, for development and staging purposes only. Upgrading resources is currently unavailable.
Unlike our High Performance Virtual Servers, which run on blazing fast modern hardware, Development VPS utilises highly reliable, legacy enterprise processors. We're talking about CPUs that are over 10 years old. They still feature NVMe storage for snappy disk read/write times, making them perfect for testing code, but they are not intended to handle heavy production traffic.
To keep costs low, these environments are classified as "best-effort" unmanaged VMs. They are supported via our ticket system and email only. If your project scales and requires 24/7 proactive monitoring or phone support, you can easily convert the instance to a Standard or Managed VPS plan at any time.
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SiteHost Control Panel

A simple, developer-friendly interface

The SiteHost Control Panel makes VPS management fast and easy. Manage SSH users, access metrics, take snapshots, and more.

Explore the Knowledge Base

What is a Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

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 Developer VPS tier, you get the full freedom of root access.

When you compare hosting options, a VPS gives you more control and flexibility than Cloud Containers, at a lower price than a Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS).

Developers love SiteHost

Our VPS customers say great things about our products, services and support. Things like this.

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You can rely on us

How reliable is SiteHost's infrastructure and support? We'll let the numbers do the talking.

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