Leaseweb Virtual Private Servers are delivered on our high-performance local storage-based Public Cloud platform. The platform is built on open-source KVM hypervisors with local NVMe drives, delivering up to 15K IOPS. Storing data on the storage of the hypervisors benefits the performance significantly. However, this does come with a recover time in case of a failure of the hypervisor.
Please look at our Public Cloud option for higher available virtual machines and storage.
Software
Leaseweb VPS supports several Linux distributions and various Control Panels – see more below.
Operating system
Leaseweb installs a basic version of the operating system of your choice, with SSH enabled for remote access. We also install some additional scripts to enable certain functionalities, such as resetting your VPS password. You can reset the password of your VPS yourself from the Leaseweb Customer Portal.
Control Panels
Control Panels are available in all Leaseweb VPS packs. Please note that not all Control Panels are compatible with all operating systems, some combinations are excluded. The available combinations can be found on our product configuration page under the software header. For more information, please refer to the article on Control Panels.
Network
All Leaseweb VPS are connected to our state-of-the-art network. For more network information, please visit the Leaseweb website.
Data traffic
All Leaseweb VPS come with a default 30TB data traffic pack. Data traffic usage is measured over the month and over usage is billed on the next invoice.
Traffic restrictions
We apply some traffic restrictions to provide you with better network isolation, such as:
- blocking traffic from IP addresses not belonging to the VPS
- blocking broadcast/multicast traffic types between VPS in the same subnet
Firewall
Leaseweb offers free Basic Firewall functionality as a feature for VPS to provide basic filtering functionality. For more information on free Basic Firewalls, refer to the article on Firewalls.
IP addresses
Leaseweb VPS gets 1 public IPv4 address and IPv6 address.
You cannot obtain additional IPv4 addresses. For more information, refer to the article on IP addresses.
IPv6 connectivity on AlmaLinux and RockyLinux
These operating systems manage their networks via NetworkManager software.
By default, NetworkManager uses RFC 4941 Privacy Extensions when assigning an IPv6 address to a network interface which makes the network interface use randomized IPv6 address, which may be inaccessible.
You may verify if your VPS is affected by this issue by running the command hostname -I on your VPS. Compare the IPv6 address it reports to you with the IPv6 address of the VPS shown in the customer portal. If they do not match, then you are affected by this issue.
To fix it, you can disable the privacy extensions:
- Edit the following file on your VPS:
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/alleth.nmconnection
And append the following lines:[ipv6]
method=auto
ip6-privacy=0
addr-gen-mode=eui64 - Reboot your server
- After the reboot, verify that the IPv6 address from the command
hostname -Imatches the IPv6 address shown in the customer portal.
Network types
Leaseweb offers Volume network for your VPS. The Volume network offers one or more default Tier1 transit providers and selected peering connections. Volume network is engineered to provide a cost-efficient solution to high bandwidth needs. For more information on the network types and the network type availability matrix, refer to the article on network types.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
To keep your VPS connected 24/7, Leaseweb’s Basic Service Level Agreement is provided at no additional charge. For additional support, there are multiple levels of SLAs. For further information, refer to the article on Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Upgrades and downgrades for VPS
In the Customer Portal, you can request an upgrade for the Leaseweb VPS. Downgrading is currently not supported, because it is technically not possible to reduce your VPS volume. In case you want a smaller VPS, you will need to order a new one and cancel the existing contract.
To upgrade your Leaseweb VPS simply click the Upgrade button in the details page of the respective VPS.
