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

We are happy to announce dediserve has now become an ISP system Partner.

ISPmanager is one of the leading web server control panels on the market. The control panel allows you to manage your entire web-server through a user friendly and comprehensive multi-language web interface. With the click of a mouse you can manage users, hosting packages, mail boxes, databases and much more from one centralized location in a simple and intuitive way.

ISPmanager Control Panel provides multi-level access to administrative features for increased management flexibility. The multi-level system makes ISPmanager suitable for business web-hosting and personal use.

You can now deploy ISPmanager servers with Dediserve  using our pre-built ISP manager template and license them at an 86% discount from the retail cost  For Just €2.95 !

Were Delighted to announce dediserve has been shortlisted for the ICT awards, startup company of the year, best of luck to all involved.

ICT Excellence 2011 Shortlist

Version 2.0 of our exciting hostbill module has now been released and is available for download in our support / downloads area.

https://billing.dediserve.com/?cmd=downloads

This new version includes full support for the latest version of the platform (now running 2.1) and improvements in labeling and simplification of machine configuration.

We are currently working on additional documentation to make installing and getting up and running even simpler!

Joint the hundreds of hosts already powering their shared hosting, VPS and cloud offerings via Hostbill with Dediserve!

We’re delighted to announce our London Cloud platform is now out of Beta, thanks to all our loyal testers and bug spotters.

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

The London platform is a near identical replica of our existing Dublin 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.

In simple terms, if something fails, you wont have to get out of bed at night (and neither do we )

Talk to us today about moving your infrastructure to the cloud.

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

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?

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