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!

We’re giving away €10,000 / $14,000 to celebrate the launch of our new London 2, Hex Cloud!

The deal:

Buy a cloud machine or cloud virtual datacentre in c1.lon2 (London HEX, UK) larger than 1GB and get €100 / $140 / £88 credited to your account! *

Simply order before the deadline on Friday and complete the first payment for a cloud server or cloud Virtual datacentre, and choose the London 2 / HEX Cloud location!

Choose any Cloud Machine from 1GB of RAM to 16GB of RAM or any Cloud VDC of avail of this incredible offer!

More freebies!

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

- Windows Web Edition (freeBSD, and most Linux distributions!)
- 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 much more!

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 and existing customers buying new services up to a limit of €10,000 total credits (100 clients)
- Offer is limited to to accounts deployed in London 2 (c1.lon2) HEX, City of London, UK.
- Offer is limited until midday, GMT (1200) Friday the 28th of October 2011
- Offer is first come, first served, limit of 1 credit per customer
- Credit will be applied once your first payment has been received, credit can be used against any services

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?

Resell Cloud Machines and VPS on our cloud, entirely whitelabel, under your own Brand, with full automation!!

We’re very excited to announce that you can now install a Dediserve module for the very popular Host Billing and automation platform – HostBill – http://hostbillapp.com/

The module allows Cloud Virtual Data Centre clients to fully automate billing, provisioning and management of cloud machines for their end users, and gives your customers the same control panel management options that dediserve presents to our retail clients.

You can grab a copy from here:
https://billing.dediserve.com/?cmd=downloads&action=category&id=1

The module allows you to easily provision servers for your customers, and fully automate recurring billing, upgrades, downgrades, etc.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need any more information, or would like to set up a live trial!

The Dediserve / OnApp iPhone app is available for free for all customers, and can be used to manage your cloud server, or indeed your entire cloud datacentre.

To get started – grab the app from the AppStore – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onapp/id405042545?mt=8

Once installed on your device, run the application and enter your credentials:

If you are not sure of your username / password for your cloud machine or Cloud Datacentre, drop a line to support@dediserve.com

Once you click Go, the system with Authenticate and Download your machine data:

You will then get the default Dashboard with your machine overview, current allocation utiisation and recent activity log.

We’re delighted to annouce we have now rolled out another excellent product on our cloud platform – Cloud Datacentre.

What is a Cloud Datacentre?

Basically instead of buying cloud machines as a single instance, you can now for a fixed monthly price, buy a pool of resources to be used how and when you like. Our default cloud DC starts with 10GB Ram, 10 Cores , and 250GB of Fiber channel SAN Storage.

Examples for SME’s could include deploying a SugarCRM template , Asterik PBX for phone Systems, Magento for your shopping Cart , WordPress template server for your Blog , a PHPbb Forum for your site, all running on their own servers, all managed via a single interface and all for a fixed monthly fee.

Check out our selection of templates for more idea’s on what you can do with your cloud machines – http://www.dediserve.com/cloud-machines-templates.html

Also from our web based control panel interface you can now deploy as many machines as you like, running whatever operating system or template that you like. Upgrade/downgrade the machines at any time. Monitor CPU usage, network traffic, emergency console in if there is  any issues.

With the dediserve cloud datacentre, you can run your own private cloud.

Consolidate dedicated servers, colocated infrastructure, VPS and shared hosting as well as in-house application servers and testing environments to a single, flexible, cost effective private cloud.

With access to a comprehensive management interface you can create, edit and destroy cloud machines, on demand, from your dedicated pool of resources.

Talk to us Today about the solution that best fits your business.