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Unmanaged VPS UK
Full root access, full control - unmanaged UK VPS for developers and sysadmins who know what they're doing
Full root access, full control - unmanaged UK VPS for developers and sysadmins who know what they're doing
About This Feature
Unmanaged VPS UK from Glitch Servers provides scalable virtual infrastructure running on bare-metal AMD Ryzen hardware - backed by AMD Ryzen hardware, NVMe Gen4 storage, and UK-native routing through AS212868. Unmanaged VPS is the choice of experienced developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who want a server that does exactly what they tell it to. You get the hardware, the operating system baseline, and the network - everything else is yours to configure. Install any software, any runtime, any service. Set up your own firewall rules, compile custom kernels, deploy Docker swarms or Kubernetes clusters, run mail servers, build VPN gateways. No restrictions, no oversight, no interference from our side. Pure infrastructure, at the lowest possible price.
Performance on Glitch VPS plans is driven by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processors - single-core clock speeds that handle application workloads, database queries, and concurrent web traffic without the CPU credit limits that cap performance on burstable cloud instances. Storage runs on NVMe Gen4 drives with sequential read speeds of 3,500 MB/s, eliminating the I/O bottleneck that affects VPS plans running on SATA SSD or shared SAN.
Glitch Servers operates AS212868 with direct peering at LINX and LONAP - the London Internet Exchange and London Access Point - providing low-latency paths to BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, and other major UK ISPs without unnecessary Continental European hops. For users connecting across the UK, that translates to consistent single-digit-to-low-double-digit millisecond round-trip times under normal UK network conditions.
Every plan includes Corero Smartwall inline DDoS mitigation operating at the network edge. Traffic scrubbing runs continuously without latency penalty, absorbing volumetric floods before they reach the hypervisor layer. Full plan specifications and pricing are on the UK VPS hosting page.
Key Benefits
Every plan includes these capabilities as standard - no tier-gating, no hidden extras.
Full root access from the moment your VPS deploys - no access restrictions, no approval required for software installation
KVM hypervisor with dedicated resource allocation - not shared containers with limited kernel access
Multiple Linux distros plus Windows Server - switch OS via control panel reinstall without contacting support
100G uplinks with BGP failover and unmetered bandwidth - the network never throttles your experiments
Technical Specifications
Real specs on real hardware - not marketing numbers.
KVM virtualisation with dedicated CPU pinning - no shared kernel, no container restrictions
Multiple OS options: Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream, Windows Server
NVMe Gen4 SSD storage - 3,500 MB/s sequential read, available from day one on all plans
Use Cases
This feature is particularly well suited to these workloads and teams.
Set up staging environments, CI runners, personal projects, and test infrastructure exactly as you would in production - no managed service to work around.
Deploy Kubernetes clusters, Docker swarms, Terraform-managed infrastructure, or Ansible-managed configurations against a clean, dedicated Linux or Windows environment.
A clean, root-accessible VPS is the foundation for penetration testing labs, honeypots, network research, and security toolchain deployment.
FAQ
Get an unmanaged VPS from £4.99/mo
Full root access. KVM hypervisor. Any OS, any software.
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