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 are very excited to announce public availability on our new London Cloud platform!

c1.lon2 Is now available on all sign-ups for new and existing customers to deploy cloud machines and cloud nodes for virtual datacentres.

Situated in the heart of the London Docklands Digital Hub, this deployment advances our cloud platform technology and provides an unparallelled location for UK traffic!

Prime location – Situated in the heart of London Docklands with probably the best connectivity in the UK
Tier 3 – long established data centre, built in 2000, with an impeccable record.

Harbour Exchange Square already offers a leading choice of carriers with resilient network access and POPs onsite
Direct access to LINX, the London Internet Exchange as well as world leading global peering and connectivity options

Our London cloud can be scaled from as little as 256Mb to 140GB RAM per instance!!

Talk to us today about how you can use Lon2 as a High availability real time fail over location for resources you have in Dublin on Lon1!

Building your first server is extremely quick and simple. To create your server login to the Dediserve billing portal at https://billing.dediserve.com and select ‘Cloud Machines

On your Cloud Machines overview page, you’ll see your machines listed, these machines are built, they simply represent the products that you’ve purchased. To get started building your server, select your product of choice, in this example – we have two 256MB Cloud machines, we’ll select one of them. On the machine overview page, select ‘Create new virtual machine’ to get started.

Selecting ‘create new virtual machine’ will prompt you for some basic information, such as the servers hostname, the operating system you would like installed, your password, and a range of resource allocation options for system RAM, CPU core allocation and disk space.

In this example, we’re creating a machine based upon CentOS 5.5 x86, using our full 256MB of RAM, 1 CPU Core, and 11GB of diskspace. When you’ve entered the information requested, simply click ‘Create new virtual machine’!

Upon clicking ‘Create new virtual machine’ you’ll be returned to the server overview page with confirmation that ‘Virtual machine has been created successfully’ at this stage, the machine has been sent for provisioning and the deployment will take approximately 5 minutes. During this time the status will remain ‘Pending’ and the lightbulb indicator icon will show inactivate.

Once the machine has been built, the status will indicate ‘on’ and the icon will be lit.
Click on your servers hostname to view advanced controls for the machine.

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

To celebrate we are running a limited special offer!!

The deal:
Get 50% off the monthly or annual price of a cloud machine – for ever!
Simply use the promo Code ‘Dallas2011′ when ordering, and choose the Dallas Cloud to depoy your machine!

The small print:
- Offer is open to new and existing customers
- Offer is limited to cloud machines only, deployed in Dallas, TX
- Offer is limited to the first 200GB of ram deployed or the 31st July, whichever comes first.
- Offer is first come, first served with no per customer limits.

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.

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

Want an 8 CPU, 16GB RAM MONSTER server ‘just because’? How’s only €17.35/£15.61 a day or €1.44 / £1.30 per hour sound?


We have just launched our new range of cloud machine configurations, and we have extended the selection with the starting point now as small as 256Mb of Ram right up to a whooping 16GB of Ram.

As part of the launch we have now also introduced daily billing option for all machines 8GB and over.

Check out the new plans and configurations over at our cloud machine page – http://www.dediserve.com/cloud-machines.html

If you perfer more flexibility and the ability to dynamically deploy whatever machine specifications you like, have a look at our Cloud Virtual Data Centre.

Feel free to Drop us a line with any queries..

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?

We are currently offering the following Special deal for the rest of the month of February:

- Looking to Migrate from shared hosting and upgrading?
- Want more control over your sites and e-mail?
- Want a server dedicated to the running of your sites?
- Want full root access to manage and install whatever software you like?

For the rest of the month of February – we are offering the following:

1GB Dediserve Cloud Server (44.95 per month – Free Set-Up )
Easy to Use Server Management Interface for reboots, back-ups , re-installs and more.
Free 100 Domain Plesk License – FOREVER – to easily add domains, set-up email and manage your accounts.

We’ll also give you the above completely FREE for the first month to allow you to migrate your sites and settings.

This is a perfect first step for people wishing to resell hosting or improve performance on their current reseller accounts whilst saving on costs.

Use Coupon Code – FreePleskForLife –  when signing up here

So Sign Up Now and Start Moving your hosting set-up into the Cloud.

This is only applicable to new sign-ups. Terms and Conditions Apply.

We are pleased to announce the roll-out of our new ISP Admin template which is built on the  Debian 5.0 operating system. ISP Admin is a complete management and billing system for small ISPs and particularly targets Wireless ISPs.

It is a proven and stable system that is currently used by more than 350 providers all around the world.

Additional Screenshots can be found Here.

ISP admin automatically performs the options of firewall, shaping, QOS. Presently it fully supports routers based on Linux and Mikrotik systems. The application further supports the internet provided through a cable television distribution (CATV). In this case the system insures the CMTS management and cable modems. ISP admin also supports automatic updates of firewall, Mangle and QueueTree.

It is an extensive project, which provides namely:
- Administration and general network management
- Records of end clients including project graphs of particular clients
- Managing client services, the material used, a photo -    documentation, service missions, etc.
- Advisory for clients with its possible mass distribution
- Managing contracts and documents, back-ups and user export
- Monitoring appliances in the net and reporting their possible failures
- Monitoring system Nagios
- Server statistics (e.g. utilization of lines, CPU, memory and other statistics of the process ongoing in a server)
- Planning module includes extended possibilities to plan engineers´ activities for their efficient use

The invoicing module is a part of the system. Every month invoices to all clients are automatically made out. The invoices are consequently shipped in PDF format via email. The system checks the settlement of the invoices according to a bank statement imported and if a settlement is overdue, it automatically suspends the services to a client.

To see more detail  – www.ispadmin.eu