Frequently asked questions about Amherst Systems services.

Amherst Systems provides VPS hosting, dedicated servers, development services, system administration, and DDoS protection for internet-facing infrastructure, websites, applications, internal platforms, and latency-sensitive services.

The platform is built for teams that need reliable compute, hands-on server administration, custom website or web-application development, reserved hardware options, and upstream DDoS protection for production workloads, game servers, bots, and custom infrastructure.

Amherst Systems offers DDoS protection backed by Cloudflare Magic Transit so attack traffic can be absorbed and filtered before it reaches protected infrastructure.

Yes. Amherst Systems offers development services for websites, dashboards, portals, internal tools, and other JavaScript or TypeScript projects that need custom scoping rather than a generic package tier.

Amherst Systems VPS hosting is designed for web applications, internal tooling, game servers, bots, and other workloads that need fast deployment, predictable plans, and NVMe-backed storage.

Amherst Systems VPS hosting is positioned alongside DDoS protection backed by Cloudflare Magic Transit, giving customers a path to protected infrastructure on the same platform.

Amherst Systems publishes VPS pricing on a dedicated comparison page with separate managed and unmanaged paths so buyers can review the right pricing model directly.

The split makes the buying decision clearer. Unmanaged VPS is for teams that handle routine administration themselves, while managed VPS adds the published management layer on top of the selected base VPS plan.

Use the unmanaged VPS pricing page to compare the published Nano through Enterprise plans and review the base infrastructure pricing without an added management layer.

Use the managed VPS pricing page to review how the base VPS plan and the Lite, Standard, or Pro management layer fit together for a one-server deployment.

Amherst Systems unmanaged VPS hosting starts at $4.99 per month for the Nano plan, with higher tiers available for more CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth.

The published unmanaged VPS plans are positioned around NVMe storage, predictable monthly resource tiers, DDoS protection, support availability, and the Amherst Systems uptime SLA.

Unmanaged VPS is intended for teams that are comfortable handling routine server administration, patching, configuration, and day-to-day operating-system work themselves.

Managed VPS starts with a base unmanaged VPS plan and adds one of the published Lite, Standard, or Pro management tiers on top for one server.

Yes. Managed VPS uses the same underlying VPS plans. The difference is that server administration, monitoring options, and response priority are added through the management layer.

Managed VPS is intended for teams that want the flexibility of a VPS but do not want to handle all routine server administration themselves.

A dedicated server is the better fit when a workload needs single-tenant hardware, stronger performance consistency, direct infrastructure control, or software that should not share a host.

Yes. Amherst Systems positions dedicated servers as single-tenant hardware reserved for one customer and one workload profile at a time.

Dedicated servers are quote based, with separate managed and unmanaged pricing-intent pages to clarify whether ongoing server administration is part of the engagement.

The split separates the hardware decision from the support decision. Unmanaged dedicated is for teams that operate the box themselves, while managed dedicated adds the published management layer to a quoted dedicated server.

No. Dedicated hardware remains quote based so the server profile, storage layout, bandwidth expectations, and protection requirements can be matched to the workload.

Use the dedicated pricing comparison page to choose between unmanaged dedicated and managed dedicated before opening the detail page that matches your operating model.

Unmanaged dedicated means the server hardware is provisioned for your workload, but your team remains responsible for routine server administration and day-to-day operating decisions.

Yes. The hardware stays quote based so the machine can be matched to the workload instead of forcing every deployment into a generic public template.

Unmanaged dedicated is intended for teams that want single-tenant hardware and are comfortable running the server themselves.

Managed dedicated combines quote-based dedicated hardware with the published Lite, Standard, or Pro management layer for one server.

No. The management plans are the admin layer only. The dedicated hardware itself is still quoted separately based on the workload and server requirements.

Managed dedicated is intended for teams that need single-tenant hardware but want Amherst Systems to handle routine administration, monitoring options, and operational support for that server.

Amherst Systems development services cover custom websites, web applications, dashboards, portals, internal tools, and other JavaScript or TypeScript projects scoped around the actual requirements of the build.

No. Websites are a common starting point, but the service also covers broader JavaScript or TypeScript work such as dashboards, admin panels, client portals, and custom browser-based tools.

No. Amherst Systems positions development services as quote based so scope, integrations, content, project complexity, and launch requirements can be matched to the actual work instead of forced into a generic tier.

Amherst Systems system administration covers small administrative tasks, config edits, panel setup, installs, backup setup, monitoring-related alerting, and planned server work for a single-server scope.

Yes. Managed Lite, Managed Standard, and Managed Pro are published as one-server plans. They can be applied to managed VPS or managed dedicated deployments, while multi-server environments and broader scope are custom quoted.

Emergency work is framed as urgent incident or outage response billed at $150 per hour. Amherst Systems does not publish a numeric public SLA on the page.

Amherst Systems DDoS protection is built around Cloudflare Magic Transit and is focused on protecting network infrastructure against Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks.

Magic Transit places Cloudflare's anycast edge in front of protected IP space so attack traffic can be absorbed and scrubbed upstream before it saturates links to the origin infrastructure.

No. The Amherst Systems DDoS protection page focuses on network-layer protection for public-facing infrastructure, not only application-layer filtering.