AI Agents for Business: Build and Integrate Virtual Assistants with Hostman

We’re expanding our infrastructure lineup and launching bare-metal dedicated servers on Hostman! With this release, we’re giving teams direct access to physical servers while keeping the simplicity, transparency, and flexibility you’re used to in cloud environments. Bare metal is a logical next step for projects that require guaranteed performance, complete isolation, and hardware-level control. Our goal was to combine raw physical power with cloud-style management, fast provisioning, and real support that responds quickly when you need changes. You can choose from ready-made configurations or request a custom server tailored to your workload. If bare metal feels like more than you need right now, we still offer low-cost virtual dedicated servers that are well-suited for most everyday tasks. You can combine both approaches on a single platform and scale at your own pace. Features of Hostman Dedicated Servers We designed our dedicated servers around one key idea: you should be able to control your infrastructure at every level without unnecessary barriers. At the server level, you get full root access and a KVM console directly in the control panel. We don’t limit your choice of operating systems or software. You can install any OS, deploy your own stack, and use the server exactly as your project requires. Everything is accessible right from the browser, without additional tools or workarounds. At the hardware level, we keep things flexible. If you need additional gateways, more storage, or processor upgrades, you don’t have to migrate to a new server. You just reach out to our support team, explain what you need, and we handle the rest. We respond quickly and treat hardware changes as a routine part of infrastructure growth, not an exception. At the network level, we let you go far beyond a single data center. Dedicated servers can be connected to private networks for enhanced security and faster data transfer. What’s important is that private networking isn’t limited to our own facilities. You can connect servers across regions, integrate third-party data centers such as Google or Amazon, or link your own data center to the same private network. This makes it easy to build hybrid and multi-cloud architectures without complicated networking setups. Reliability is something we take seriously. We guarantee 99.98% uptime under our SLA and place servers only in Tier III data centers across America and Europe. These facilities use redundant power systems, stable communication channels, and modern monitoring tools. Before we deliver any server, we always run load testing. This helps ensure the hardware performs correctly under real-world workloads, not just on paper. When you receive the server, it’s ready for production from day one. We rely on enterprise-grade platforms from Supermicro, Intel, and Gigabyte. Available processors include Intel Xeon Gold 6140, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, and AMD EPYC 9354, so you can choose the architecture that best fits your workload. NVMe storage configurations are also available, delivering read and write speeds up to five times faster than traditional SSDs and keeping latency low even under heavy load. If you don’t see a configuration that fits your needs, that’s not a dead end. Just message us in online chat or send an email. We have many hardware options available and will find a solution that works for you. You can also check out our article on how to choose between cloud and dedicated servers for e-commerce hosting. How to Get Started With Bare Metal on Hostman We wanted getting started with bare metal to feel as simple as working with any other Hostman service. You begin in the Control Panel, where you can order a predefined server or request a custom configuration. Select your server region, operating system, and bandwidth option. Once the hardware is prepared and tested, it becomes available in your account. From there, everything is managed in one place. Using the built-in KVM console, you install the operating system, configure software, and manage the server directly in your browser. There’s no need for separate access tools or manual provisioning steps. If your project grows or requirements change, you don’t have to start over. You can upgrade hardware, adjust networking, or add components by contacting support. We handle changes without forcing downtime-heavy migrations whenever possible. If you already use our cloud services, dedicated servers can be added to existing projects and connected via private networks. This makes it easy to build a unified infrastructure that can combine databases, object storage, VPS, and bare metal in a single environment. Who It’s For Our dedicated bare metal servers are a good fit when you need predictable performance, strict isolation, and advanced networking. They work especially well for high-load databases, analytics systems, enterprise applications, game servers, and any workload where virtualization overhead is unacceptable. Teams building hybrid or multi-cloud setups often use our dedicated servers as a physical core connected to cloud resources across different providers. At the same time, we continue to offer affordable VPS for development, testing, web applications, APIs, and smaller production services. Many customers combine both models, running critical components on bare metal and supporting services on VPS. If you want to see how dedicated servers fit alongside our other solutions, take a look at the full range of offerings on the Hostman Products page and choose the setup that matches your goals today and tomorrow.

We're excited to announce the official Terraform provider for Hostman is now in the Terraform Registry! Deploy and manage your entire Hostman infrastructure using HashiCorp's powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach. Whether you're spinning up cloud servers, configuring managed databases, or orchestrating Kubernetes clusters, our Terraform provider lets you define, version, and automate your cloud resources with precision and confidence. Complete Infrastructure Coverage Our Terraform provider brings the full power of Hostman's cloud platform into your HCL configuration files. You can now manage everything from basic cloud servers to complex Kubernetes deployments through code.  The provider covers core infrastructure resources like servers and storage, database management with automated backups, container orchestration through managed Kubernetes, and security features including firewalls and VPC networking. Instead of clicking through web interfaces or making individual API calls, you describe what you want in clean configuration files, and Terraform makes it happen. The provider includes comprehensive data sources that help you build dynamic configurations, pulling in available OS images, server presets, and configuration options automatically. Why Use Terraform with Hostman Let's imagine you're launching a new project and need a complete environment—application servers, a PostgreSQL database, and a firewall to keep everything secure. Without Infrastructure as Code, you'd spend time clicking through multiple interfaces, manually configuring each service, and hoping you remember all the settings when you need to recreate the environment. With our Terraform provider, that entire setup becomes a configuration file you can run anywhere, anytime. More importantly, it becomes documentation that lives with your code, showing exactly how your infrastructure is built and why certain decisions were made. Predictable deployments: Terraform's execution plans eliminate surprises. Before changing anything, you see exactly what will be created, modified, or destroyed. No more accidentally deleting the wrong database or misconfiguring a firewall rule. Multi-environment consistency: Deploy identical infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments. Change a few variables and replicate your entire stack with confidence, ensuring your testing environment truly mirrors production. Team collaboration made simple: Store your Terraform configurations in version control, enabling your entire team to track changes, review modifications, and collaborate on infrastructure updates. Every change becomes part of your project's history. Getting Started is Simple The beauty of Infrastructure as Code lies in its simplicity once you take the first step. Our Terraform provider is available directly from the Terraform Registry, ready to integrate into your existing workflows or help you start fresh with automated infrastructure management. Configuration follows Terraform's familiar patterns—you define resources using HCL syntax, specify dependencies, and let Terraform handle the complex orchestration behind the scenes. Whether you're provisioning a single server or deploying a multi-tier application with databases, load balancers, and storage, the process remains consistently straightforward. Our comprehensive quick start guide to Terraform on GitHub walks you through everything from initial setup to advanced configurations, with practical examples that you can adapt to your specific needs.  By the way, we recommend choosing a suitable cloud server plan now. Because once you start using Terraform, everything will go too fast to ponder... Ok, What About the Real-World Use Cases? Consider Sarah, a startup CTO who was spending hours each week manually provisioning development environments for her growing team. Every new developer needed their own isolated environment, and every feature branch required temporary infrastructure for testing. The manual process was eating into development time and creating inconsistencies between environments. After implementing our Terraform provider, Sarah's team can now spin up complete development environments with a single command. New developers get identical setups in minutes, feature branches get automatic infrastructure provisioning through CI/CD, and the entire team can focus on building features instead of managing servers. Development teams love the flexibility: Create isolated development environments for each team member or project branch. Tear them down when not needed and rebuild instantly when required, optimizing both costs and resource utilization. DevOps engineers appreciate the control: Build reusable infrastructure modules that enforce standards while allowing customization. Version your infrastructure alongside your applications, ensuring compatibility and reducing deployment risks. Startups benefit from speed: Launch your entire application stack—from servers to databases to storage—with tested, version-controlled configurations. Scale resources by modifying variables and reapplying, not by learning new interfaces. Advanced Capabilities for Growing Teams As your infrastructure needs evolve, our Terraform provider scales with you. The provider supports Terraform's advanced features like remote state management, workspace isolation, and module composition. You can build infrastructure libraries that your team shares and iterates on, creating a foundation that grows stronger with each project. Integration with CI/CD pipelines transforms infrastructure deployment from a manual bottleneck into an automated part of your development process. Provision staging environments for pull requests automatically, run infrastructure tests alongside your application tests, and deploy to production with the same confidence you have in your application code. The provider handles complex scenarios like managing database backups across multiple environments, configuring Kubernetes node groups with specific requirements, and setting up network security that adapts to your application's needs. Yet it keeps the simple things simple—deploying a basic web server still requires just a few lines of configuration. Start Your Infrastructure as Code Journey The Hostman Terraform provider represents more than just another deployment tool—it's a shift toward treating infrastructure with the same care and precision you apply to your application code. Your servers, databases, and networking become part of your project's source code, documented, tested, and versioned alongside everything else. Ready to transform your infrastructure management? Your journey from manual configuration to automated, version-controlled infrastructure starts with a single terraform init command. Visit the Hostman Terraform provider page on GitHub to explore the complete resource documentation and getting started guide, head on to our Terraform Registry listing, and start building a reliable infrastructure at lightning speed with Hostman.

In the first half of 2025, Hostman delivered a range of updates and events that enhanced user experience and expanded our services. Intrigued? Let's take a look at what's new. Visualize Easily with Cloud Infrastructure Scheme The first update in line, which we are very proud of, is a new infrastructure scheme in the Control Panel that gives you a live, interactive map of all your services at a glance. Tired of drawing cloud diagrams in various applications simply to understand your setup? Just look at this cool thing: It shows real-time status, regions, and specs for servers, databases, S3 buckets, Kubernetes clusters, and load balancers. You can organize resources visually, trace traffic paths, add comments, zoom, go full screen, and lock layouts. It's free, with no hidden fees, and you can even download a .png version in one click. And this is just the beginning—soon you'll be able to design draft schemes, add third-party elements, and switch between display modes. Stay tuned for future updates! Growing Our Partnership so You Can Grow with Us We launched new Partner, Reseller, and Ambassador Programs with various partner types, tiers, and perks. Join forces with Hostman to unlock new revenue streams and business opportunities with a cloud platform tailored to meet the unique needs of startups and SMBs like yours. Hostman helps developers and growing companies succeed because when you succeed, we succeed. Unified Search—Everything You Need, Instantly No more clicking through menus—whether on desktop or mobile, you'll find what you need in seconds. Meet the new unified search bar that keeps you in the flow. Just press ⌘/Ctrl+K or click the search field, type a name, label, or IP, and instantly see matching services, network info, and relevant docs. Use Tab to switch between Services and Documentation, arrows to navigate, and Enter to jump right in. Improved Our Kubernetes Service Kubernetes now takes care of itself through auto-healing! Every 10 minutes, it checks the health of all worker nodes. If a node is marked NotReady or Failed, Kubernetes tries to restart it. If that doesn't work, it automatically launches a new node to replace it. Want more control? You can turn off auto-healing for specific nodes with the label kube-healer.kubernetes.io/healing-disabled:true. This feature is available for all clusters, helping you keep workloads stable without manual intervention. We also updated Kubernetes pricing plans: Dev plan—$2.00/month, for testing Kubernetes functionality. Use case: small pet projects. Base plan—$12.00/month, for clusters with medium load where fault tolerance is not critical. Use case: corporate web services or ML inference services. Custom plan—from $21.60/month, for flexible configuration. Use case: high-load platforms and Big Data/ML pipelines. The Serial Console Comes into Play Now you can dive into your servers with speed and ease. Here's what makes it great: Copy, paste, scroll, and use your mouse directly in the terminal. Turn on syntax highlighting with a single click to make code easier to read. Connect without relying on public networks or SSH. Launch instantly while using resources efficiently. The VNC console is still here, too, and you can switch between consoles on all servers whenever you need to. New Solutions in our Marketplace We added new software to the Marketplace, including Prometheus Alertmanager for simplifying the monitoring, Metabase for data analytics, Bookstack for enhancing your knowledge management, and others. Choose the most suitable option from our 20+ solutions directly in the server creation menu in Hostman's Control Panel! Meet the Upgraded S3 Object Manager The S3 Object Manager now allows you to upload objects to buckets and manage them directly in the panel with one-click upload, drag & drop, or Ctrl+V. Each file has its own block with upload/download status in the right corner. There are also: Convenient sorting by name, date, or size. Smart breadcrumbs with long paths collapsed into a drop-down list. Global search by objects with matches, path to the object, and direct navigation to the file or folder. Documentation Always at Hand Switching tabs or hunting through the website is gone. Documentation now opens right inside your Control Panel, exactly where you need it. On any cloud service page, just click the link and dive straight into the Docs without breaking your workflow. Easily Manage Password-Based SSH Access Previously, restricting password access to the server required manual editing of the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. Tiring. Now, just toggle the corresponding button when creating the server. An SSH key will be used instead of a password, improving security and convenience. After restricting password authentication, you can still use your password, for example, to log in via VNC. Actively Expanding our Knowledge Base for Everyone We published more than 150 tutorials for users of all levels, from beginners to experienced IT specialists. To understand what you are interested in, we track the most popular articles. Among them, for example: An article about how to create and use batch files so that you can automate your workflow with Windows OS. A guide on how to install and configure SSH on Ubuntu, which helped many people to set up a secure connection to the Ubuntu server. If you are already familiar with this, feel free to check out our Tutorials to find something interesting for yourself! And a Few Little Niceties We monitored and fixed minor bugs and improved usability to enhance your user experience. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, we would say. Earned the "Users Love Us" G2 badge based on verified user reviews with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5. And, to be honest, we love you too! Hostman's technical support is always available and ready to help you with any questions or difficulties. We also updated our Company page, and now it looks amazing (as we think). Check it out and learn slightly more about Hostman. Rolled out Kubernetes version v1.33 among the first! You can read about the new features on the official Kubernetes website, but in short, this version is more stable and packed with many cool features. In fact, we continuously update software versions, so you can always rely on the most stable services.   That's all for now, but don't worry, there's still a lot of interesting stuff to come. And to make sure you don't miss anything important, follow us on social media!