New: 4GB Brightbox PLUS increased CPU on 1GB and above! 19 Jun 09

A few days ago we added a new 4GB Brightbox product to our virtual machine range. Several customers have had 4GB boxes for a while now (on special request :) – but they’re now available for anyone. The 4GB Brightbox comes with burstable dual CPU, 50GB SAN storage, 25 MySQL cluster connections and 1.6TB/month data transfer!

We’ve also changed the CPU allocation for Brightbox 1GB and 2GB products so that they now also benefit from being able to burst to 2 CPU cores – effectively doubling CPU for both products!

Previously, the Brightbox 2GB product had a single “dedicated” core but having spent some time reviewing usage stats it was clear that CPU is considerably under utilised across all of our host machines so we could be confident that no existing customers would actually lose out by this change. If you currently have a 1GB or 2GB Brightbox and want to upgrade to the new CPU allocations, raise a support ticket and we’ll arrange the config change and reboot.