Dedicated Virtual Servers
And a great support, of course!
Dedicated Virtual Servers - quality at a reasonable budget!
We look at our Dedicated Virtual Servers as the next generation Virtual Servers (VPS), or next generation server
- We have the advantages of VPS’ with a good price picture thanks to shared resources.
- We also have the benefits of dedicated servers, as we do not overbook and use the market’s best virtualization, VMware.
- You avoid the disadvantages of dedicated servers thanks to centralized storage and virtualization that automates, among other things, hardware errors.
Performance
When you move to Rackfish, we often see that the performance gets a boost even with lesser hardware. This is because you get more performance on networks, processor, storage and memory without overbooking and with reserved resources.
Safety
Network
The standard server
Rackfish standard server run advanced web sites, media servers for video, administrative applications, yes all sorts of things. It is a very good server to start with and it’s easy to buy add-ons for what you need more of (memory, storage, vcpu, etc). We have lots of standard servers in operation and that’s often the one we start with, the name says it all!
Configuration
You get 50 GB of storage on our storage network, in addition, we reserve double the amount so that you can get up to double the usage in the form of stored snapshots, depending on how much data changes.
Basic server
You could say that the Basic server is more like a Virtual server (VPS), but with all the benefits of Rackfish! The performance and capacity are a little lower, perfect for simpler websites you want to run on a small server. The expansion possibilities are endless, when you need it you can just switch up to a standard server and get more of everything right away!
Configuration
Rackfish Care – Managed Services
Rackfish Care is our wonderful service that is aquired by companies that want to secure operational expertise at a fixed cost. The most common customer is developers who want someone to work with who manages the operation and configuration in order to focus on the development itself.
All work is included in business hours and includes optimization, updates, troubleshooting, installation, configuration.
Some months you don’t use anything, other months lots – there’s some sort of limit on what we can deliver – if the work should continue over 50 hours a year (and server) then we probably need to discuss this, but so far it hasn’t been necessary.
It is nice for us to be able to work freely and do our best and it is nice for our customers not to have to think about whether or not to contact us.
Customers with Rackfish Care can also get their own channel in our Slack – now we’re talking really personal and efficient!
SLA
- Basic SLA is included for all servers.
- SLA B provides 24/7 monitoring with action and guaranteed 2-hour response time all hours of the day.
- SLA C is available for those who want a fixed cost and includes 2 emergency calls a month.
Customize your server
The range of additional services is very large. Of course we have all kinds of domains, certificates, CDNs and similar services. If you want to pay exactly for what you use, our hourly-measured IaaS services can be a good option for you. Specifically for Virtual Servers, however, please note:
Capacity
vCPU with very good performance can be added. Memory as well, sold per GB, with or without High Availability. Storage on our storage network is sold per 50GB and includes snapshots, object storage (S3) sold in bulk or measured.
We can also help with load balancing, optimization and load testing.
Safety
In addition to a good basic quality in all details, we offer services such as “high availability” where the cluster is ready to handle hardware failures automatically. Fault Tolerance – a machine is kept as the exact copy of the main server and is ready to take over within a second. We can replicate data (or machines) between data centers.
Licenses
Windows and SQL Server are bestsellers. Wowza and several other video server software as well. Control panels such as cPanel and CloudLinux operating systems are some examples of what we deliver
Stockholm
In Stockholm we have our main operation. Really nice stuff, with completely sustainable energy supply!
Power: 2N/N+1
In practice, each server has two power cords. Each power cord is backed by different sets of batteries and diesels. There is overcapacity so that a diesel can break. On both sides. Behind the diesels there are two different switchgears in the mains. Or simply put: we have never been powerless!
Cooling system: N+1
N+1 means that the cooling system consists of (N) number of components to cool the entire hall and there is always at least one (+1) stand-alone component that takes over in the event of a fault.
Routines, security and more are top notch with 24/7 security, lock-in control, video surveillance, and so on.
Uppsala
This hall is a little more normal but does not have the highest requirements for accessibility. Since we use this as a backup hall for special purposes (such as storing backups far away from the main operation), that is excellent enough. It is still guarded by security guards 24/7 and we have both battery and diesel backup on the power supply. The quality of the electricity supply is very high and the actual availability for the last 5 years have been 100%.
The details that make the difference to your operation
Uptime
Our quality stands out point by point. We have customers with extreme requirements - all our customers benefit from this. All these details where we let quality cost lead to one thing: Good availability. And good performance. Okay, it's going to be two things.
Storage - Object storage
S3-compatible storage in Sweden from a Swedish company, with high redundancy, fast access and easy pricing.
Virtualization
With market-leading VMware as a platform, we can move customers when hardware is to be serviced, guarantee performance with automatic rebalancing, provide high availability as needed. Even a broken server is automatically handled in minutes. Safety and quality for our customers. Your servers are business critical. You need a good server.
Storage - Block storage
All storage takes place in our storage network. It is fast (SSD, many connections) secure (can handle broken disks and processors and switches and cords) and practical (all data is separated from the server - we can move AFTER a failure).
Network - Internet Connection
A powerful network with security and capacity with most suppliers outside that is automatically optimized. If you're demanding a good network, you should definitely talk to us.
Hardware - RAM
Like everything else, memory is booked so each server gets what is ordered. In addition, we offer High Availability where the same amount of memory is reserved in our cluster to handle situations when hardware breaks. Awesome uptime!
Hardware - vCPU
Something that distinguishes Rackfish Virtual Servers from the many VPS and cloud services is that we reserve the CPU capacity we sell and automatically balance our cluster so that no single server becomes overloaded.
Backup - Data Security
Our storage saves snapshots on servers for quick access and backups are sent to our secondary data center.
Based in Sweden
Swedish Company with Swedish owners. Standard Swedish agreements. Highest credit rating at UC. Swedish invoices and hosting from data centers in Stockholm and Uppsala. It's secure and clear!
A selection of the customers we proudly delivered virtual servers to:
