As I alluded to in my original review of Fasthosts VPS, hardware specifications vary wildly on different cloud computing platforms.

With the Edition 2 VPS range, Fasthosts have continued their tradition of innovating with the latest hardware by using 3rd-generation AMD EPYC (Milan) CPUs.

Screenshot showing Neofetch output
The Neofetch output for the VPS running this website. 2x AMD EPYC CPU and 4GB RAM. 

The CPU isn’t the only thing that’s been upgraded. Edition 2 VPS now run on NVMe disks for better performance over its predecessor.

Snapshots

New to the Edition 2 VPS is the ability to create snapshots – Fasthosts call them “images.”

This means you can take a full image of your VPS before any major change – a software update or OS upgrade, for example.

The best thing about this feature is it is completely free and you can take any number of snapshots you wish!

Screenshot showing Fasthosts Edition 2 VPS snapshots
It's completely free to take any number of snapshots (“images”) of your Edition 2 VPS. 

Guaranteed 99.99% Uptime

Like with the Edition 1 VPS, Fasthosts continue to promise 99.999% uptime with Edition 2 VPS. Is this still achievable?

The short answer is: yes. You can check out the uptime for my VPS on my status page.

Screenshot showing my website's uptime in July 2024
At the time of writing, Fasthosts have achieved 100% uptime in the first month of the Edition 2 VPS hosting this website in production.