Resources virtualization powered by Xen technology allows us to dynamically optimize the power of your server or website, reduce the costs and always be ready to serve unexpected high traffic events.
Your server is environmentally friendly, as you only consume the amount that you truly need, when you need it. Painting your server green is not enough to make it environmentally friendly: at Omega8, we know that the main problem is that, on average, people only use up to 15% of their server’s capacity, while consuming 100% of its resources (electricity, cooling, etc.).
The solution? A technology that maximizes the utilization of machine resources in real time, on demand, in a way that is personalized for each of our customers, and which optimizes the allocation of resources throughout our thousands of servers so as to obtain 100% on a continual basis.
“A Hypervisor, or Virtual Machine Monitor, is software that makes one computer seem to be many “virtual machines”, each one capable of running an operating system that functions entirely independently of any other. Each OS is completely isolated from every other, and each one thinks it has sole control over all the resources of the machine. With this isolation comes security, even if one of the virtuals is compromised, the others are unaffected. Xen is an Open-Source hypervisor with very widespread industry acceptance.
Xen has much better performance than other virtualization products – as little as one-tenth the overhead. This makes it cheaper to run, but it also makes every virtual perform better on I/O operations – that is, using disk storage or the network. Xen is now becoming the de facto industry standard for virtualization, with the support of almost all of the major industry players, including Intel, IBM, Sun, AMD, Cisco, Dell, HP, Novell, and Red Hat, among others. Xen is Open Source Software, so it benefits from a rapid development pace and good security.” [ source ]
You can scale you server from as little as 512 MB of RAM up to 16 GB of RAM. And when it’s still not enough, we can easily build a virtual cluster for you, with enough power to run high performance and high traffic, BIG websites.
Learn more about the technical infrastructure we are using – Panix in New York, US and Clustered in London, UK.
