Technology - Cloud Hosting - Premium
Basic Building Block
The basic building block of every plan is our revolutionary VMware based Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) running on our exclusive Enterprise Virtualization Environment (E.V.E.)TM. Our Virtual Dedicated Servers are unique in that they are both virtual, consuming shared resources across our massive E.V.E., and dedicated, giving customers complete control over the operating system. Our Cloud Hosting plans enable you to economically share resources among your Virtual Dedicated Servers.
What is our Cloud Hosting - Premium plan?
Our Cloud Hosting - Premium plan comes with one or more VMware vSphere ESX hosts and a dedicated datastore in our Enterprise Virtualization EnvironmentTM.
- Create your own VMs and templates
- Upload VMs using ftp and import them into E.V.E.
- Download VMs as necessary
- Take advantage of VMware Hardware Availability Clustering
Distributed Resource Scheduling
Once you have all of your servers sharing overcommitted resources, you may want to prioritize your servers' access to those resources. That is where DRS comes in. With Distributed Resource Scheduling, you will have the ability to reserve resources for individual servers or pools of servers or set scheduling priority for individual servers or pools of servers. This gives you a fine level of control over how all of your servers consume CPU and RAM. For more information on VMware DRS, please see Virtualization Layer: DRS, vMotion & VMware HA.
Server Options
As a Cloud Hosting - Premium customer, you will have the ability to create servers using any of the following methods:
- Install from Infinitely Virtual templates
- Windows Server
- Ubuntu Linux
- Debian Linux
- CentOS Linux
- Install from Turnkey Linux appliances
- Upload virtual machines
- Upload VMware Virtual Appliances
- Self-Install any supported operating system
Choose between self-licensing or using our Microsoft SPLA licensing for nearly any Microsoft product.
Includes the Best Network Management team
Cloud Hosting customers have the option of having their VMs placed in managed private VLANs protected by our vShield firewall, managed 24/7 by our network management team.
Better than Dedicated Server Access with vCloud Director
With our vCloud Director enabled plans, interact with your Virtual Dedicated Server from Infinitely Virtual like you were sitting in front of your server. A serious limitation of dedicated servers is that you cannot see the console, insert a CD in the drive or power cycle the server without remote hands. Until now, these were limitations that customers had to tolerate to get the performance their applications required. Our VDS plans feature:
With these unique features, you can interact with your server whether or not the operating system is running. If you accidentally lock yourself out of VNC or remote desktop by modifying the firewall settings, you can easily connect to our Virtual KVM and let yourself back in. If you want to insert a CD, DVD or floppy, just access our Virtual CD/DVD & Floppy feature. And if for any reason the server won't restart gracefully, just power it down and back up with our Virtual Power Buttons.
Is Your Dedicated Server or VPS Plan Clustered?
We define the standard for fault-tolerance, guaranteeing 100% uptime. Every Virtual Dedicated Server is protected by E.V.E., with features like:
Serious Data Protection
We take data protection seriously. Every plan includes our unique data protection feature. Every server in our environment is backed up nightly by taking a point-in-time snapshot of the entire datastore. Unlike our competitors who take crash-consistent snapshots of their customers' servers, we take application-consistent snapshots. We retain daily backups for 7 days and weekly backups for 4 weeks.
Our Process:
- Instruct the VSS aware applications on each VM to quiesce all transactions, including:
- Exchange Server
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Instruct the VM to quiesce all disk transactions, creating a VM level snapshot
- Take snapshot of underlying datastore
- Delete VM level snapshot
Free SNMP Monitoring
To ensure the best possible performance, we give our customers free SNMP monitoring. Every server in our environment is monitored by our enterprise NMS. We constantly monitor CPU usage, RAM usage and disk usage, and if your server exceeds our norms, we notify you so you can take corrective action.
Learn More About E.V.E.
Learn more about our exclusive Enterprise Virtualization EnvironmentTM and how it sets us apart from the competition. When selecting a hosting solution, there is only one question you should ask, "Is this plan hosted on E.V.E.?"