We’re expanding the LumaDock platform with VPS for web hosting. It’s a proper virtual machine shaped for websites from day one, not a bare box you have to assemble. You choose a control panel during checkout, we provision the stack, and you’re live in seconds. There are no setup fees and you keep the control you expect from a VPS while working in an interface your team already understands.
| Shared web hosting | VPS web hosting |
|---|---|
| ❌ Shared CPU, RAM and storage | ✅ Dedicated resources |
| ❌ Slower speeds from “noisy neighbors” | ✅ Consistent speed and uptime |
| ❌ No root access or customization | ✅ Full root access and freedom |
| ❌ Hard to scale as sites grow | ✅ Easy resource scaling |
| ❌ Higher security risks | ✅ Strong isolation and security |
This decision is the outcome of hundreds of customer conversations about their experience with other providers: slow shared hosting, fragile migrations, and the gray area between developer freedom and everyday convenience.
So…. If you run WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, Craft, static sites with API backends, or a mix of all of the above, this guide shows exactly how to use the new plans without losing a week to server chores.
Why we built a web-hosting flavor of VPS
Shared hosting is familiar, but it struggles once traffic spikes, plugins pile up, or a store wants steady checkout speed all day. Bare VPS is powerful, but the initial lift can be heavier than it should be for busy teams.
Our goal was simple: keep the performance and isolation of a VPS and add the comfort of a well known control panel so you don’t spend your launch window wiring mail, DNS, PHP versions, and backups.
Underneath, it’s the same LumaDock platform many of you already use for Starter and Performance plans. We’ve added an opinionated layer for website operations and we’ve done it without hiding anything important. You still have root when you need it, snapshots when you want safety, and firewalls you can actually reason about.
What “ready in seconds” means in practice
You pick a zone, select a panel, confirm resources, and hit deploy. Our platform provisions the VM, attaches storage, configures network and a baseline firewall, and applies the control panel template. Seconds later you receive the panel URL with credentials and a short first boot checklist. From there you can request an SSL certificate, create your first site or import an existing one, and add mailboxes if that’s in scope.
Speed is only useful if the result is stable. We test templates continuously and we keep them aligned with upstream releases so security patches and compatibility updates are predictable. If you prefer to freeze versions for a while, you can do that and still schedule snapshots before any change you plan to roll out.
Where you can deploy today, and what’s next
Right now you can deploy in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Bucharest. Most customers start where their biggest audience lives, then expand when traffic patterns justify it. If you serve the UK and DACH at the same time, London and Frankfurt are a good pair. If your audience is split between Central and Eastern Europe, Bucharest sits close to a lot of users and Paris offers reach toward France and the Benelux region.
We’re lining up additional zones through late 2025. We’ll share firm dates as soon as they’re locked. If regional compliance, data residency, or latency targets drive your roadmap, tell us early. We’ll bring you into the planning loop so you can make commitments with confidence.
Control panels you can choose at checkout
We support both commercial and free panels. Licenses for the commercial panels are available directly through LumaDock so your billing stays clean and your support path is straightforward. If you prefer to start lean with free tooling, you can do that too and change later.
cPanel
The most familiar interface in hosting. If your team lives in cPanel already, this is the path of least resistance. You get the classic features for websites, domains, email, DNS, databases, and file management. Account based separation makes client projects safer and tidier. If you’re migrating from a cPanel based shared host, the move is often a straight line.
ISPmanager
A modern panel with a clear UI and fast navigation. Popular with teams across Europe, and friendly on licensing. It scales smoothly from a handful of sites to agency-style portfolios. If you want a middle ground between simplicity and advanced configuration, this is a strong pick.
Plesk
A favorite for WordPress heavy stacks. Staging, cloning, and centralized updates are built in. If your team runs lots of WordPress or WooCommerce and wants the day-to-day tasks to be less painful, Plesk earns its keep very quickly.
Free panels
HestiaCP and CyberPanel are both available and capable. Easypanel offers a free tier for up to three projects and suits developer workflows where you want web apps and sites side by side. Many teams start here for early projects and then graduate to a commercial panel once there’s revenue or a bigger team using the server.
We’re not locking you into a choice. You can change panels later. We can help plan and execute that migration so it doesn’t become a weekend sinkhole.
The technical foundation
Virtualization and isolation
We use KVM virtualization for strong isolation between guests. That means clean resource accounting, predictable CPU scheduling, and practical controls for memory and disk performance. You get a real virtual machine with kernel level separation, not a container that depends on the host’s decisions.
Storage and snapshots
Your data lives on fast NVMe storage with replication across the pool. Snapshots take seconds to create and are the safety net that lets you patch at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday, then roll back if a plugin or theme surprises you. Use them before dependency updates or code deploys. Combine them with your panel’s own backup jobs to separate quick rollbacks from longer retention archives.
Networking and security
Every VPS includes a dedicated IPv4 address by default. You can purchase additional IPv4 addresses if you need strict separation for email or SSL, or if you’re migrating a legacy setup that expects per-site addresses. DDoS protection runs all the time and doesn’t require manual tuning to be useful.
The cloud firewall sits in front of your VM and complements the panel’s internal rules. That means you can block entire protocol families at the edge and still run per-site allowlists or application rules inside your panel.
Bandwidth and monitoring
You have an uplink capable of 1 Gbps and unmetered bandwidth for legitimate web hosting usage. We include one monitoring check with every plan so you can alert on the signal you care about most. Most teams start with HTTP status and response time on their primary site, then add deeper checks for database health, queue depth, or specific ports as projects grow.
OS choices and updates
You can deploy modern Linux distributions that your panel supports. We track upstream changes and test templates so you’re not playing roulette on day one. If you want kernel live patching, scheduled maintenance windows, or staged rollouts across a fleet, tell us. We’ll map options that match how your team works.
Practical web hosting use cases
Real life is messy. Sites run the plugin nobody wants to touch. Teams inherit code with half a readme. Budgets move. The patterns below work across that noise, so see how close these hit for you:
Small eCommerce brand moving off shared hosting
- Pick a zone close to the bulk of buyers.
- Choose Plesk or cPanel for easy WordPress and WooCommerce management.
- Migrate quietly by lowering DNS TTL a day before cutover.
- Snapshot before updates and enable daily backups with a rolling 7 to 14 day window.
- Warm up email if you host mail locally. If you outsource mail to a provider, disable local mail to avoid confusion.
Result you should expect: faster cart and checkout, fewer CPU throttles, and a support team that can change server level settings when you need something unusual like image processing libraries or specific PHP modules.
Agency consolidating client sites
- Start with ISPmanager Host or cPanel with multiple accounts so clients live in separate sandboxes.
- Create a naming convention for accounts and document who owns what.
- Turn on monitoring for each production site’s homepage and admin panel.
- Schedule snapshots before plugin or theme bulk updates.
- Use private networking if you split the database layer later for bigger clients.
Result you should expect: One invoice, one server to maintain, clear boundaries per client, and a stable path to grow resources without migrations every quarter.
Developer building a SaaS marketing site plus docs
- Deploy in the zone closest to your early adopters.
- Pick Plesk or HestiaCP for easy site management and let your app live on the same VM in the beginning.
- Add a second VPS when the app and database deserve separation.
- Keep panel backups for content and snapshot the VM before app updates.
- Introduce a staging site and lock it down with HTTP auth if you want to share previews.
Result you should expect: Fast iteration at the start, then clean separation later without changing tools or habits.
High traffic content site with caching
- Deploy in two zones once traffic warrants it, for example Paris and Frankfurt.
- Put a lightweight edge cache in front of each origin and set sensible TTLs.
- Purge selectively from cache on publish events.
- Monitor backend response not just cache hit ratio, so you know when origin is the limit.
- Scale vertically first for simplicity, then consider horizontal strategies if you need them.
Result you should expect: Stable time to first byte and the ability to handle spikes without dragging the rest of your sites down.
Email, DNS, and the details nobody wants to track
You can host mail locally through your panel or keep it off the VPS with a dedicated mail provider. If you host mail locally, set SPF, DKIM, and DMARC the same day you go live and plan a gentle IP warm up. If deliverability is mission critical, we usually recommend external mail and leaving the VPS focused on web workloads. It simplifies reputation management and takes one variable off your incident list.
DNS
Use your panel’s DNS if you want everything under one roof or delegate zones to a managed DNS provider if you prefer an external control plane. Either way, keep TTLs short before a migration, then extend them once the dust settles. Document records that are non-obvious like third-party verification, SSO, and tracking pixels so they survive team changes.
SSL
Issue certificates through the panel and set auto renew. If you need organization validated or extended validation certificates for compliance reasons, you can install those manually. Watch mixed content on older sites and fix it early so you don’t chase broken padlocks later.
Backups, snapshots, and recovery you’ll actually use
Backups and snapshots sound similar but they solve different problems. Snapshots are your quick safety line around changes. Take one before bulk plugin updates or before an OS patch. If something feels off, roll back in minutes. Backups are your longer retention history. Use daily backups with a reasonable window and test a restore when you have a quiet hour.
If your website code lives in Git, treat that as a backup of code and treat panel backups as a backup of state. If you run a database heavy application, consider a second backup stream for the database with point in time recovery.
We support additional backup slots and off-site policies if you want an extra layer.
Security defaults that help instead of getting in the way
You have two lines of defense before you even log in. The cloud firewall blocks noise at the edge. The panel’s internal rules shape traffic inside the VM. Use both. Keep SSH keys modern, disable password login for SSH if you can, and rotate panel credentials on a schedule.
If a site is public facing administration, pin its IPs or use HTTP auth in front of it. When you onboard team members, give them personal access, not a shared account, and remove access when they leave. Boring, yes. Effective, also yes.
Scaling without rebuilding the house
You can grow CPU, RAM, and storage from the dashboard. Plan a short window if you want to be extra careful, take a snapshot, and scale. Sites don’t need to move.
When a single VM becomes the limit for your strategy, the next step is usually a second VM on private networking for databases or background workers. Panels can live happily in that model. If you end up with multiple frontends, put a managed DNS or edge cache in front to keep routing simple.
How migration works when we help
Send us a short note with what you’re moving and where it lives now. We look at the mix of sites, the panel you want, and any custom bits like cron jobs, queues, or image processing binaries. We suggest a plan, lower DNS TTL the day before, copy the sites, test, then flip. If a site needs to stay hot during business hours, we cut over during a quiet period. If you prefer to move yourself, we’ll give you a checklist and a person to ping if something feels wrong.
Pricing model in plain language
You pay for the VPS plan you choose. There are no setup fees. A dedicated IPv4 address is included by default and you can purchase additional IPv4s if your design needs them. If you use a commercial control panel, you can buy the official license directly from us during checkout.
We include one automatic backup job on applicable plans and one monitoring check so you can alert on uptime or a key service out of the gate. Bandwidth is unmetered for normal web hosting usage. If your situation is unusual or very large, tell us and we’ll shape a plan that fits.
Day one checklist we recommend
- Deploy in the closest zone to your users and set the panel admin credentials.
- Add your first site, issue SSL, and turn on HTTP to HTTPS redirects.
- Set PHP version per site, not globally, and pin it if you need compatibility.
- Create the first backup job and run a manual backup to confirm it works.
- Add your free monitoring check and point it at production.
- Take a snapshot before the first plugin update or code deploy.
- Warm up email or disable local mail if you’re using external providers.
- Document the basics so someone else can fix a problem at 2 a.m.
This takes less time than you think because the heavy lifting happens during provisioning.
Who this is for, and who will be happier elsewhere
If you’re running multiple websites, care about steady performance, and want a clear control panel, this is for you. If your team prefers command-line only and wants to craft every package by hand, a bare VPS still makes sense.
Both paths exist on LumaDock. Many teams mix them. They keep a panel for the big portfolio of sites and stand up bare instances for services that live outside the panel’s world.
Support, the part that decides whether you stay
You talk to our in-house team: we build and operate the platform, so when you ask why something behaves a certain way, we answer with specifics. If you need a second set of eyes on a configuration, ask. If a release weekend looks risky, we’ll help you schedule snapshots and a fallback plan. If an incident hits, we don’t bounce you between tiers. We fix it and we explain what happened so it doesn’t become folklore.
Getting started
- Pick your zone. London, Paris, Frankfurt, or Bucharest are live.
- Choose a control panel. cPanel, ISPmanager, Plesk, or a free panel.
- Deploy. It comes online in seconds.
- Migrate with our help or use your panel’s import tools.
- Go live, turn on monitoring, and get back to the work your website exists to do.
If you want advice before you click deploy, tell us about the stack and your audience. We’ll recommend a shape that matches traffic, growth plans, and budget. If you need to hit a specific date for a store relaunch or a campaign, we’ll plan the cutover so that date is about content and conversions, not servers.
FAQ
How fast can I start using a LumaDock VPS web hosting plan?
Provisioning completes in seconds. You receive the control panel URL and credentials immediately, then you can create sites, issue SSL, and migrate content the same day.
Do I have to buy my own control panel license somewhere else?
No. If you choose a commercial panel like cPanel, ISPmanager, or Plesk, you can purchase the official license directly from LumaDock during checkout. If you prefer free panels, HestiaCP, CyberPanel, and Easypanel are available without extra cost.
Can I host multiple websites on one VPS?
Yes. All supported panels handle multiple sites. For agencies and freelancers, we recommend separate accounts or subscriptions per client to keep things clean and secure.
What if I pick the wrong size at first?
You can scale CPU, RAM, and storage from the dashboard without reinstalling. Take a snapshot, increase resources, and carry on. If the architecture itself needs to change, we’ll help you add a second VPS over private networking for databases or background jobs.
How do migrations work if you help me?
We lower DNS TTL, copy your sites, test them on the new VPS, then flip DNS during a planned window. If a site requires a strict SLA, we schedule the cutover during quiet hours and keep a snapshot ready as a fallback.
What security features are included by default?
You get DDoS protection, a configurable cloud firewall, isolation at the virtualization layer, and snapshot capability. Panels include their own security tooling, and we can advise on hardening steps that fit your setup.
Do you charge setup fees or bandwidth overages for normal use?
There are no setup fees. Bandwidth is unmetered for standard web hosting usage. If your use case is unusual, talk to us and we’ll shape a plan that fits.
TLDR: It’s better than shared hosting
VPS web hosting at LumaDock is live today. It gives you the power of a real VPS, the speed of clean storage and networking, and the comfort of a panel that keeps daily work simple.
Launch your web hosting VPS in London, Paris, Frankfurt, or Bucharest, point your domain, and get back to the part that actually grows your project. If you want a second opinion on architecture, or you need a hand with migration, we’re here and we’re fast to respond.