Hosting4Life Specialized Hosting Service

Choosing a Liferay hosting provider

2012-05-13T07:37:46Z

Unless you are leasing a dedicated server for your Liferay installation you need to understand that not all VPS hosting providers are the same. For VPS hosting providers both memory and CPU are precious commodity. There's only so much memory and CPU cores that a single server can hold. This equation many times result in over selling the resources. The most commonly over sold resource is the CPU but some virtualization solutions also allow over allocation of memory.

We use Xen which fully reserves the allocated memory to the virtual machine. We constantly monitor the over all resource usage so that we don't over sell the available resources. In case we have vms that do use a lot of CPU we'll pin their virtual CPUs to dedicated CPU cores so that they don't affect other vms other wise will let most vms share cores for more optimal utilization and speed.

The second thing you really need to mind with applications like Liferay is the amount of memory available. Many VPS hosting providers try to sell you vms with as little as 256MB RAM which not even close to what Lifeary requires. Our smallest vm for Liferay has 1GB of RAM which really gives you at most 512MB for the JVM heap size. You need to leave some resources for the OS and database. We will also setup our Liferay vms with Apache to off load some of the resource processing to more memory and cpu efficient Apache web server. It is setup to cache static resources such as images, css and javascript.

We also setup all our vms with Shorewall firewall and by default only allow ssh and http ports open. This is all configured within the vm so if you need more ports opened you can do it yourself easily.

Another thing to think about where are the physical servers located and what kind of network access do they have. Our servers are located in a top of the line hosting facility in Germany with amazing 240Gbit internet backbone. The servers are connected to this backbone through 100Mbit connection and we offer unlimited inbound traffic and 1TB of outgoing traffic. Now we do monitor the traffic usage but won't slap you with over usage charges unless you constantly and excessively over use it.

Not many budget hosting providers provide this kind of network connection. This kind of connection is pretty much unheard of in USA and the site still loads pretty snappily from US.

Now when you are considering hosting for your Liferay you should consider these factors. We also offer shared Liferay hosting which maybe a good fit for you. Please note that we are not a "professional hosting company" with someone ready to act 24/7 althrough we have monitoring and alert systems in place and everything is run by people with years of experience. We just don't offer SLAs and the price tag associated with them even though our track record is very good.

Introducing Refer a Friend Program

2012-05-11T04:51:56Z

I'm proud to introduce refer a friend program. For every friend you refer you get one month for free and we'll also reward your friend with one free month. Happy referring!

St. Patrick's Day Sale

2012-03-19T16:28:29Z

Celebrate this St. Patrick's Day with 25% off your next billing cycle on any plan when you order by midnight CET Monday 19th. This is on top of existing free setup offer.

Update: Offer extended till midnight CET Sunday 25th.

Traffic limits increased on all plans

2012-03-14T00:27:01Z

Now all dedicated plans include 1 TB of outgoing data and unlimited incoming data. All shared plans include 100 GB of outgoing data and unlimited incoming data. So now you can upload documents to your document library without worrying about going over your traffic limit just mind the downloading.

We don't actually cap the data at the limit but we do reserve the right to start throttling or even block traffic after you go over the limit but we won't do that unless you are using data by the terabytes so small or occasional over usage won't be penalized. If we notice constant over usage or huge over usage we will offer you the change to buy more data either for short term or permanently at 10€ ($14 USD) per month per terabyte.

Liferay 6.1 Now Available

2012-03-10T08:50:06Z

We are now offering Liferay 6.1 on both dedicated and shared plans and for the month of March all setup fees are waived on all plans. Now you can get a dedicated VPS instance for less than 30€ or $42USD per month with 1TB of traffic included. Shared plans start at about 8€ or $12USD per month.

Introducing Mini Liferay Shared Plan

2011-08-27T02:05:29Z

The new Mini plan is perfect for individuals that want to use Liferay for their personal website but don't want to pay the price usually associated with Liferay hosting plans.

The plan offers enough space and data transfer for most personal websites with just 100€ ($140 USD) per year price. No setup fees. If you run out of space you can always opt for the next tier. If you are not sure if shared plan is for you just ask for a two week free trial instance at our demo server.

Now offering dedicated Liferay Portal Hosting

2010-09-26T18:43:31Z

I'm proud to announce the availability of dedicated Liferay Portal on your own virtual private server. It's all preinstalled and configured but you have full root access and can install any plugins you want.

Each virtual machine is running on Xen paravirtualization to get best performance possible. Our VMs use a real Linux lvm partition for disk which gives you the best IO performance and allows us to expand your storage space easily.

We monitor each VM with Nagios which alerts us if your VM goes down. Currently we only monitor that the VM is up and it's SSH service is responding. Later we are going to offer a more full range of monitoring like load, disk space, running processes and even JVM heap utilization. All these are currently in use with our shared Liferay plan.

Our dedicated Liferay offering has a full range of different sized VMs to best suite your need and we offer the possibility to upgrade at any time. We'll discount the new subscription with any time you have unsed on your current subscription. For example you have bought a Basic plan at 450€ per year and after 6 months want to upgrade it to Pro plan. Your new plan would then cost 750€ - 450€/2 totaling at 525€ for the first year and then at normal rate.

As introductory offer we offer additional 10% off any yearly subscription just give as promo code TENOFF2010 while ordering. Offer valid until 31.10.2010.