If you have shared hosting, reseller hosting plans or VPS with websites on them – this is the deal for you!

Shared hosting and legacy VPS are prone to issues and outages – move to the cloud today!

To help with the decision, we are offering this strictly limited special!

Until Midnight today only - Wednesday 30th November !

What you get!

* 1 Node Cloud Virtual datacentre
* Dual Core CPUs @ 2.93Ghz
* 1GB RAM
* 50GB High Performance SAN
* 100Mbps Uplinks with 1TB Transfer per month
* 2 Dedicated Public IPs

* cPanel / WHM Full License (normally €12.95!)
* Softaculous premium Script Installer ($75 Value!)
* Rapid SSL Secure Certificate (€29.95 Value!)

* Automated and On Demand Backups – included free
* Comprehensive Firewalls and Security – included free

* Our renowned 24/7/365 support team to set everything up for you and migrate your existing websites!

For the amazingly low price of €30 / £26.99 / $42 a month for the life of the server!

But wait… there’s more!

Move now and we’ll migrate you for free!

Any shared hosting accounts, plesk, cpanel, hsphere – you name it!

We’ll move everything for you to your new cloud cPanel solution – at no cost!

But wait… there’s even more!

Choose to pay annually and get a free month in addition to this crazy offer!!

But wait… there’s even more than that!

With every order, we’ll send you a limited edition, much desired stresscloud!

dediserve – taking the stress out of hosting!

This is a fantastic way to start offering shared hosting on a cloud platform or to consolidate and tidy up all those messy shared hosting accounts you’ve accumulated over the years – especially since we’re happy to do the hard work for you and migrate them all! On our VDC platform you can seamlessly upgrade this server, or add more of any spec you want! Increase CPU and RAM without reboots – even resize the disks as you need! This initial specification is good for an average of over 100 websites!

* Offer expires Wednesday November 30th at 0000 GMT. T&C’s Apply. Migrations do not apply from other dediserve services. Offer open to new and existing customers. Any questions – ask!

At Dediserve HQ, we believe in innovating and delivering on the true promise of what cloud can deliver for Infrastructure as a service – so we are delighted to announce another world first -  a multi-site cloud server failover solution with inter datacenter routing. This product will allow customers with mission critical solutions to achieve 100% uptime at all times – even during a maintenance window or failure.

What is it?

The multi-site virtual machine failover process with inter-datacenter routing consolidates a number of servers behind a single routed IP address at the same datacenter as the primary server being protected. In the event of a failure affecting the primary machine, traffic is dynamically updated within 60 seconds to re-route traffic to a replicated server(s) in a secondary datacenter.

In english, we simply replicate one or more of your servers from one cloud location to another. You then point your DNS at the IP we give you and, hey presto ! Your cloud machine can now be failed over to another datacentre at will. We can monitor a wide range of services to initiate a failed state, and will notify you by Email, SMS, Twitter DM or Prowl alert!

You can even choose to failover traffic, to maintain 100% uptime even during maintenance, upgrades or a cloud machine reboot, etc.

The Cost?

Completely FREE!!! -  the only cost for the solution is the second identical machine on the second cloud platform, we are not currently charging at all for the actual solution itself. If you sign up now this will never change for you.

Want more?

The solution, as well as monitoring your cloud machines, failing over traffic, and notifying you, also provides comprehensive Intrusion Detection and Prevention technology, including DOS and DDOS prevention – so your services are not only made amazingly redundant – but secured too!!

How do I get started!?

There are just two steps!

1 – Order a new cloud machine or VDC in a location different to your primary servers -     

2 – Order the failover service – including the primary and secondary server details!

That’s it – we take care of the rest and set up all the replication for you!

Any questions – let us know!

Limited special offer on our Dallas, Texas, USA Cloud

The deal:

Get 50% off a cloud machine – for ever!*

Simply use the promo Code Dallas2011 when ordering one of our cloud servers, and choose the Dallas Cloud to deploy your machine!

Choose any Cloud Machine from 256MB of RAM to 16GB of RAM of avail of this incredible offer!

From just €4.98 / £4.48 / $6.97 per month!

More freebies!

With this offer, you also get the following absolutely free!

- CloudLinux, Windows Web Edition, Jumpbox Licenses
- Auto Backups and On-Demand snapshots
- Firewalls
- Comprehensive 24/7/365 support
- Let us Migrate you for free!

As well as class leading availability, high availability, automated failover, CloudFlare templates and more!

When Ordering, click on the Promo Code box, enter the code and click the submit box to register. Only proceed when the price displayed registers the discount!

For those of our audience who are technically minded – the specs!

This platform is a near identical replica of our existing Dublin and London installation, with some improvements and simplifications. Storage is provided by a pair of NetApp 3270 clusters each with a 1.9PB capacity and able to handle massive IO and maintain speedy performance and ultimate reliability at all times. By only using high end SAN storage, rather than local disk, cheap SATA drives or ‘home made’ commodity SAN, we ensure our cloud machines can maintain high IO with low latency and do so reliably, all the time. We’re fast becoming the home of many database driven, intensive and ecommerce sites as a result!

On the compute side, our Hypervisor nodes are HP DL380 latest model servers with 12 Cores of Intel Xeon X5670 processors, at 2.93Ghz with 12M Cache and 6.4GT/s. With these high performance nodes, coupled to a massively redundant, cisco powered SAN and Network back-plane we can offer screaming performance while maintaining class leading reliability.

On top of this physical layer, runs our Cloud management platform, xen powered, by OnApp, it ensures reliable running, provides full API and user interfaces, and can hot migrate work loads (cloud machines) as required to maintain reliable running and maximum performance for all customers.

As a ‘true’ cloud, the dediserve cloud platform allows you to scale in real time, entirely automatically on demand, and can recover from any physical failures with zero or minimal impact to running servers, entirely automatically with self-healing technology.

* The small print:
- Offer is open to new customers
- Offer is limited to cloud machines only, deployed in Dallas, TX (not Virtual Data Centers)
- Offer is limited until the end of September 2011
- Offer is first come, first served, limit of 1 server per customer
- 50% Discount will be applied in perpetuity, as long as the account is maintained

Want to connect to your cloud servers over a secure, encrypted tunnel, or perhaps you’d like to push all your traffic through such a tunnel, ensuring the total privacy of your online activities?

With the Dediserve cloud – it could not be simpler! Follow these 5 simple steps and you will be running your own cloud VPN solution or service in just a few minutes!

1. From your cloud virtual datacentre GUI, or our order form, order a machine with at least 512MB of ram and choose the template for ClearOS 5.1 OpenVPN

2. Once the server builds, open your web-browser to https://your.server.ip.xx:81/admin

3. Run through the easy. 5 step install wizard – simply accept the defaults at every step.

4. Create a User under the Directory Menu

5.Connect using your new VPN service!

You’ll find full documentation on OpenVPN here, as well as linked to clients, config options and more!

http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/docs/admin-guides.html

Having been independently benchmarked and ranked by Cloudharmony.com , we wanted to share some of the impressive results with you!

Specifically, when compared to all other providers of public cloud in Europe – dediserve has ranked as the fastest / best performing cloud for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP – the most common stack for running websites and apps).

Key findings:

• dediserve occupy the first four places in the overall ranking.
• the dediserve 1GB cloud machine even outperformed 16GB ram instances from Rackspace, Amazon and others.
• the dediserve 16GB cloud machine is the best performing cloud machine in Europe for your site or app.
• the Amazon AWS EC2 ‘Micro’ Instance is the worst performing cloud machine option.

We are delighted to see the relative performance of our 1GB spec – a lot of horsepower for your site or application for only €39.95 per month! That makes our 1GB machine 5.5x faster than the worse performer – the EC2 Micro instance!

We’ve been ranked first in many other benchmark areas, which we’ll share over the next few weeks with more detailed analysis!

Click the Graph for full size version. Click below to see the full table.

What was measured?

LAMP Performance Metric

This metric measures performance using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) related benchmarks including mysql-bench, tpcc-mysql and phpbench

Included Benchmarks:

blogbench-read=50
blogbench-write=50
phpbench=150
postmark=100
mysql-bench:ATIS=30
mysql-bench:big-tables=30
mysql-bench:insert=30
mysql-bench:select=30
mysql-bench:wisconsin=30

Baseline:

storm-bm-e5506x2-8gb-4disks-261gb-sas-raid10=100

For more details on how moving to the dediserve cloud can help your business see our animation below:

As revolutionary and Cost effective as Cloud Hosting now is, the fundamentals of server management remain very much the same, meaning security is still a hugely important part of managing your server.

In this post we can going to look at some simple security steps that we recommend to all customers who deploy windows machines on our cloud platforms.

1) Install a good Antivirus, e.g. ESET NOD32, AVG, Kaspersky, AVAST.

2) Configure your firewall to only what you need, e.g. Disable all un-needed Incoming Rules

3) Lock down certain Services to YOUR IP. Within your advanced firewall settings, doubleclick your inbound rule for RDP (port 3389), click scope and add your IP address into the “Remote IP Address” section.

4) Turn off Auto-Update. Update manually regularly, and be sure that hotfixes/security patches will work with the software you are running

5) Take regular backups before running the lastest update, so you can easily roll back if it breaks something..

Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments below and i will add to the list.

There is much hype and confusion about cloud. What is it, what defines it? Providers try to confuse you that shared hosting or legacy style VPS servers are ‘cloud’ or worse still, dedicated servers are cloud!

Here is the ‘official’ definition:

The five characteristics of the cloud computing model were originally defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) and have since been refined by a number of experts. The model has been published many times before, but if you’re like me you need to see something several times before you really internalise it.

Frankly, I recommend that you memorise this list; you’ll have the vague term “cloud” thrown at you many times in the future, and understanding these five characteristics will help you judge whether the latest offering you’re being shown is really cloud computing. And as an added plus, you’ll be able to finally explain cloud computing to your friends and relatives.

1. On-demand self-service. You can quickly and easily configure the computing resources you need all by yourself, without filling out forms or emailing the service provider. An important point is that what you’re using is service-based (“I need 15 computing units”), not resource-based (“I need an HP ProLiant DL380 G6 with 32GB of RAM”). Your computing needs are abstracted from what you’re really being allocated. You don’t know, and in most cases you shouldn’t care. This is one of the biggest hurdles for IT departments that want to create their own internal cloud computing environment.

2. Broad network access. You can access these resources from anywhere you can access the Internet, and you can access them from a browser, from a desktop with applications designed to work with them, or from a mobile device. One of the most popular application models (such as iPhone apps) is a mobile application that communicates with a cloud-based back end.

3. Resource pooling. The cloud service provider, whether it’s Dediserve or your own IT department, manages all of its cloud’s physical resources; creates a pool of virtual processor, storage, and network resources; and securely allocates them between all of its customers.

4. Rapid elasticity. You can grow and shrink your capacity (processing power, storage, network) very quickly, in minutes or hours. Self-service and resource pooling are what make rapid elasticity possible. Triggered by a customer request, the service provider can automatically allocate more or less resources from the available pool.

5. Measured service. Also described as subscription-based, measured service means that the resources you’re using are metered and reported back to you. You pay for only the resources you need, so you don’t waste processing power like you do when you have to buy it on a server-by-server basis.

Dediserve nails every one of these 5 defining characteristics – does your provider?

From Account Sign-Up, to Building and getting your LAMP Stack cloud server online – In Only – 4 minutes and 10 Seconds  – dediserve’s cloud platform – for when you need a server now!