VPS.Net is a part of the UK2 Group, a company that has been around since 1997. VPS.net was launched in early 2009 and has grown rapidly.

Today, the company trades under the company name of VPS with Ditlev Bredahl as the CEO. UK2 has offices in London, Chicago and Utah.

The UK2 Group has over 200 employees and about a million customers. VPS.net currently hosts about 10000 domains and has data centres in the US and the UK.

The host offers virtual private server cloud hosting to customers in the USA and the UK. They using a redundant cloud system, with a RAID 10 SAN backend and ‘node’ based VPS architecture. Nodes are basically customisable blocks of resources (256MB of RAM, 10GB storage, 250GB transfer, CPU share).

VPS.net sells itself “the VPS Cloud for the masses”. One of its unique selling points is the ability to deploy temporary extra server capability in less than a minute at a very low cost- making it easier to cope with unexpected traffic peaks.

The company is best known for being the ‘baby’ of UK2 Group’s CEO Ditlev Bredahl, who often responds personally to customer queries and has a strong Twitter account.

The following companies are all part of the UK2 Group family: UK2.net, midPhase, WestHost, 10TB.com, AN Hosting, Autica, Resell.biz, US2.net, WingSix, Supreme Support, Dotable, and VI.net.