Our secure, redundant and fully managed infrastructure is located in multiple US and EU datacenters – currently 2x in New York US – Navisite Colocation center in Manhattan and Level3 Colocation center, London UK, and soon Dallas TX, Seattle WA, Washington DC & Singapore SG.
“CPUs – All servers are Intel Xeon multiprocessor 1U rackmount units. As of late 2008 most are configured with two CPUs (8 cores) and 24GB RAM.
SAN Disk Storage – All servers have Fibre Channel interfaces to our SAN. Our disk arrays are all 10k (or in some cases 15k) RPM Fibre Channel disks. All “disks” provided for customer VPS are actually a mirrored (redundant) pair of disks spread between two chassis.
Unlike many VPS services, we do not use consumer-grade (SATA or PATA) disk drives. Consumer drives offer much more storage per dollar, as opposed to the drives we use, but they have a number of disadvantages. Aside from inferior performance, the key disadvantage is that they must attach to a specific server, whereas our disks are all connected to the SAN, and thus available for use by any SAN-attached server.
Since there are no disk drives inside individual servers, a server hardware failure does not require lengthy downtime in order to dispatch an admin to the server location, remove disk drives, put them in another server, and boot it up. Instead, we can simply assign the disk volumes on the dead server to other servers with spare capacity, and boot up the virtuals on their new home right away.” [ source ]
Learn more about the technical infrastructure we are using – Panix in New York, US and Clustered in London, UK.
