Virtual Server Solutions in Oxford & London
Flexible, Scalable, and Cost-Effective Server Hosting
Say goodbye to expensive on-site hardware and inflexible infrastructure. At Network Assistance, we provide fully managed Virtual Server solutions that give your business the power and reliability of dedicated servers—without the physical footprint or overhead.
Whether you’re hosting applications, files, databases, or websites, our virtual servers deliver enterprise-level performance, security, and flexibility.
What Is a Virtual Server?
A virtual server is a software-defined server running inside a powerful physical machine. It behaves just like a traditional server but is hosted in the cloud or a secure data centre—allowing you to run operating systems, apps, and services without managing physical hardware.
This means lower costs, better uptime, and more scalability for your business.
What Our Virtual Server Services Include
Custom Server Configuration
We build your virtual server around your exact requirements—choosing the right OS, performance specs, and storage.
Server Migration & Setup
We migrate your data, apps, and configurations from physical servers or other platforms to your new virtual environment with minimal downtime.
Security & Compliance
All servers include firewalls, encrypted backups, antivirus protection, and options for multi-factor authentication—ensuring GDPR and industry compliance.
High Performance
Hosted on enterprise-grade infrastructure in UK data centres, our virtual servers offer high availability, fast response times, and 24/7 uptime.
Ongoing Management & Monitoring
We handle patching, resource monitoring, security updates, and performance optimisation—so you can focus on your business, not your server.
Windows or Linux Support
Virtual Server Solutions
In a virtualized environment, you can reduce the amount of servers required – a virtual system allows you to share the physical resources of multiple machines across the entire infrastructure. Applications can then access the shared resources as and when required, resulting in a more efficient system and lower costs.
An example of a typical virtualized environment might see three physical hosts connected to a shared storage device. These hosts provide the processing and memory capacity whilst all data relating to virtual servers is stored on the Storage Area Network.
The virtual infrastructure provides far greater flexibility and extremely high availability from a simpler hardware model with fewer things to go wrong.
A key benefit is that the entire network infrastructure becomes portable – this makes disaster recovery far quicker and more effective.
Get a Virtual Server Built for Your Business
Modernise your IT with a flexible, high-performance virtual server from Network Assistance. We’ll assess your needs, build your environment, and support you every step of the way.
Benefits
Virtualization - Key Benefits
High Availability
Virtual machines can be moved to an alternative host in minutes. An entire virtual server can be restored with the ease with which you would use Shadow Copies to restore a previous file version. This ensures no more downtime incidents caused by issues such as severe blue screen Windows failures.
Flexibility
You can run as many virtual servers as your host and SAN capacity allows. If you need to expand your capacity, simply add another host which would be able to run another four or more servers (assuming typical loads).
Increasing memory or processing capacity is straightforward and cost-free – simply shut down the virtual machine, assign more memory or processing power from the shared resource pool and restart the virtual machine.
Technology Testing
For testing purposes you can have server templates so that you can safely run your own test lab on the same physical hardware.
For example, if you wished to test a new accounting package or database, you would simply create a new virtual server and invite a select group of users to test it.
Disaster recovery
Planning for the worst is something which all businesses need to consider. Should you be unable to operate from your site, the virtual infrastructure is fully portable and can quickly be set up in our data local centre. Backups of the virtual images will mean that your systems are available within an hour or two, allowing your business to remain functional.
Lower cost of ownership
As virtualization requires less hardware than the traditional approach, the hardware costs are lower.
Virtualization also results in a far lower exposure to hardware failures (keeping ongoing costs low) and future expansion is significantly more cost-effective.