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Not just any server - redundant servers, redundant networking, HA SAN based storage... sound out of reach? But when combined with our VMWare ESX hosted solution you can get pricing similar to commodity dedicated boxes without the numerous single points of failure.
Do you need to extend your organizations network into a professionally hosted infrastructure? Let us show you how, via a private VLAN in our infrastructure, using virtualized servers and IPSec back to your private corporate networks, you can do just this. The possibilities:
- Virtualized DR servers at fraction of the cost of buying and colocating your own;
- Existing VMWare user? Let us show you how to effeciently send us encrypted copies of your whole VMDK files so we can restore your whole environment incase of catastrophic loss at your primary site;
- High availability public facing servers which shouldn't be hosted in your office at the mercy of the fickle power and SPOF bandwidth at your location;
- Web hosting resellers and developers looking for a stable and highly scalable platform on which to build their business;
- Custom projects which can benefit from a blend of colocated nodes and VMs on private VLANs: colo + HA VMs + FC/IP-SAN + out of state backups = Welcome to High-End VMWare hosting
What it is not: this is not commodity hosting, on low end hardware; low priced VPS solutions are profitable through oversubcription and we do not over-subscribe, if you seek that type of setup, you have plenty of choices, and we wish you luck.
If your Virtual Server host is rebooting your system because of unresponsiveness, you know what we mean. The only people who reboot the VMs you host with us are you. Forget chassis end of life (what to do when the 'server' needs replacing/refreshing) that is no longer an issue, your Virtual Machine can be migrated between host chassis at will, freeing you up from hardware lock-in and disruptive hardware upgrades and issues.
We offer Enterprise class VMWare ESX virtual server hosting for organizations looking to outsource without compromise.
| Our Solution |
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Common VPS hosting |
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8 x Gigabit BGP peering relationships, via dual 6500 series CISCO with dual/HA hardware firewall protection included. |
Network |
maybe BGP, hardware firewall optional |
Purpose built quad core 53xx and 54xx series Xeon processors. Drives & powersupplies all redundant and hot swappable. |
Servers |
whatever is handy |
Discreet multiple Intel GigE NICs for client facing, backup and management functions. All ESX interfaces have at least one card-independent failover NIC to redundant blade based switch, |
Host/VM Networking |
whatever is handy |
Customer specific VLANs behind Cisco ASA with host specific rules. VLAN to VLAN segregation. Optional NIDS specific to your VLAN.. |
Security |
host based relegation (iptables or BYOFirewall for windows) hardware firewalls extra |
SAS RAID 10, Enterprise SATA RAID 10, and Enterprise SATA RAID 6, plans start at 20GB per VM and scalable to operating system limits (dozens of TB available upon request) on active-active dual controller SANs |
Storage |
whatever is on sale |
8 BGP peers using smart routing (least hop) method via redundant hardware (GlobalX, Savvis, ATT, L3, UUNet, NLayer, Cogeng, BTN, etc) 95th % billing with optional throttling and shaping. |
Bandwidth |
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Enterprise Class multi-chassis switches, Layer 1-4 switching; offering blade redundancy and high granularity of VLAN and protocol control. Every port is GigE. |
Switching |
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Dual feeds to dual APC Smart PDUs, hosting facility has N+1 UPS and diesel generator backup. |
Power |
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Dry pipe fire suppression, secure facility, N+1 cooling. |
Environmentals |
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All underlying systems are fully monitored. VM and application specific synthetic transactions available. |
Monintoring |
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Off-SAN/Off-site backups; VMDK based with block-level deltas available at additional intervals. File, Application level and DB backups also available. |
Backups |
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Private VLAN with IPSEC from our infrastructure to your corporate LAN, Cisco software VPN for mobile users. This allows you to virtually 'co-locate' web facing application servers (Email, CRM, www) while allowing routed and selectible access from your LAN to these hosted virtual servers. Bandwidth and resource pooling included in Enterprise Package. |
Enterprise Package |
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Optional per IP or IP-group packet shaping, banwidth throttling, layer 7 application inspection and management |
Packet Shaping |
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Optional HA load balancing and IP application management. |
IP Stewardship |
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