Managed Virtual Private Server / Virtual Machine Hosting

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Virtualisation is a technology which benefits most enterprise hosting requirements, and it is the solution to most (but not all) hosting needs. This essentially allows a single server do the job of multiple servers, by sharing its resources across multiple environments, or in the case of cloud hosting or virtualised cluster, the Virtual Servers move between the hosting nodes as the demand dynamically dictates it. This is secure, scalable and highly-available. Read more about our managed hosting virtual infrastructure.


Entry-level Managed VPS
Features:
  • Virtualisation type: Context-based**
  • Supported operating system(s): Linux
  • 512M RAM
  • 10G storage
  • Standard inclusions (see below)
  • Cost*:
    • $275 once-off setup fee.
    • $275 on-going per month.
    • Apply now >>


Enterprise Managed Virtual Private Servers (powered by VMware)
VMware Virtualization Features:
  • Virtualisation type: Full machine virtualisation**
  • Supported operating system(s): Windows, Linux
  • Basic Managed Virtual Server
    • 1G RAM
    • 1 vCPU
    • 20G storage
    • Standard inclusions (see below)
    • Cost*:
      • $275 once-off setup fee.
      • $385 on-going per month.
      • Apply now >>
  • Standard Managed Virtual Server
    • 2G RAM
    • 1 vCPU
    • 30G storage
    • Standard inclusions (see below)
    • Cost*:
      • $275 once-off setup fee.
      • $495 on-going per month.
      • Apply now >>
  • Heavy-duty Managed Virtual Server
    • 4G RAM
    • 2 vCPUs
    • 50G storage
    • Standard inclusions (see below)
    • Cost*:
      • $275 once-off setup fee.
      • $660 on-going per month.
      • Apply now >>


Standard Inclusions for VPS/VMs
Features included with all virtual servers:
  • Dedicated hardware resources, with scalable capacity options
  • High-Availability DNS Services for up to 10 domains
  • High-Availability Email Services for up to 10 mailboxes
  • Managed services:
    • 24x7 Server Monitoring
    • 24x7 Service Monitoring
    • 24x7 On-call engineers available
    • Regular operating system & software patching/updating
    • Regular inspection & server health-checks
    • Hot-spare servers available for instant replacement
    • Real-time bandwidth monitoring & statistics
  • 10Gb data
  • Pre-installed software/services:
    • Operating System (software licence fees may apply)
    • Web server
    • FTP Server
    • (optional) Name server
    • (optional) MySQL, MS SQL 2005 Express database server
    • (optional) High availability/load balancing options 100% uptime

* Based on a minimum 12 months contract.

**VPS Virtualisation

Context-based virtualisation provides virtualisation for GNU/Linux systems. This is accomplished by kernel level isolation, which allows to run multiple virtual units at once. Those units are sufficiently isolated to guarantee the required security, but utilise available resources efficiently, as they run on the same kernel. This particular virtual server model is implemented through a combination of "security contexts", segmented routing, chroot, extended quotas and some other standard tools.

Full machine virtualisation consists of full virtualisation of CPU, motherboard, memory and CPU resources with dynamic recompilation of CPU instructions for optimisation of applications running within the VPS environment. Most virtualisation environments offer emulation of the host for guest operating systems. Dynamic recompilation offers an improvement on this approach: it dynamically compiles blocks of machine instructions the first time they are executed, and later uses the translated code directly when the code runs a second time, resulting in improved performance for applications hosted on the Virtual Private Server.




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  • Company: Australian accredited, locally owned, managed and operated, market leader, 10+ years.
  • Infrastructure: Self-owned network, servers & equipment
  • Industrial-grade hardware
  • Tier-1 Datacentre facilities
  • Redundancy & high-availability
  • Hot-spare servers on stand-by
  • Top notch service & support
  • Expert technical assistance
  • 24/7 proactive maintenance and monitoring
  • Industry leading SLAs

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