Managed vs Unmanaged VPS Hosting

At Atum, we offer 2 flexible and dedicated Virtual Private Server hosting options to meet the needs of your business. With a dedicated VPS server, you will not experience the inconvenience of sharing server resources. Free yourself of shared hosting hand cuffs and enjoy the advantages of incredible response time, our speedy and knowledgeable tech support, customized server configurations, and more control.

  • plans from as low as

  • 100% Network Uptime Guarantee
  • Advanced Monitoring
  • Managed Firewall
  • OS License (ours or yours)
  • IBM Premium Server
  • NAS Backup
  • IT Management
  • Patching and Preventative Maintenance
  • Free Trial
  • managed

  • $89

    per month

  • unmanaged

  • $39

    per month

NOTE: Prices are based on “Basic” package (1 vCPU Xeon, 512 MB DDR2 ECC, 2 5GB Usable RAID 5 10K drive)

With both VPS hosting options, your servers will reside in Atum’s Toronto Tier 3 data center with an IBM enterprise level hardware. We don’t offer the low level server hardware and only use true and tested IBM servers.

Managed VPS hosting caters to those companies that don’t want to worry about their infrastructure and need it taken care of by experts. You will be able to focus on your business while your server and data is in trusted hands. In order to keep you up to date, you will also be provided a change management report for any patches and alterations we perform confirming all is running smoothly while you giving you the option to give feedback. Read more about managed virtual server hosting benefits.

Unmanaged VPS hosting caters to companies that require the benefits of VPS hosting but want to be responsible for updates, managing and maintenance of software on their own. You still get to utilize many of the benefits of Atum’s enterprise level virtual servers. Read more about unmanaged virtual server hosting benefits.

Customer Testimonial

Marts & Lundy has been working with Atum since 2002. We are a smaller firm with 'big' IT needs and Atum helped us build an IT infrastructure to meet the demands of our unique environment. They successfully guided us on the creation of our first IT policy, which led to a common platform of hardware and software. This has been invaluable to the growth of our organization.

Trisha Slawson
Project Manager
Marts & Lundy