Technology

Self-provisioning of Virtual Dedicated Servers via Control Panel or API

Virtual Dedicated Servers can be created or re-started in <1 minute via Control Panel or API

Full self-service: Start/stop/delete, change memory/CPU/storage/IPs of Virtual Dedicated Servers

Allows multi-tier architectures through a high-speed internal GigE network

Persistent storage based on a fully virtualised high-end SAN/NAS back-end

OS agnostic
Microsoft Windows Standard Server 2003 (32/64-bit)
CentOS 4 (32-bit)
CentOS 5 (32/64-bit)
Debian 4.0 etch (32/64-bit)
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (32-bit)
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (32-bit)

Fully monitored system - network, storage and servers with 99.99% SLA

Automatic optimisation

Fully automated HW recovery

Fully static IP addresses

Each customer has their own VLAN and their own virtual disks

Fully functional API

Fully integrated Firewalling (May 2008)

Fully integrated load balancing (May 2008)

Business Model

No subscription fees

No minimum term contract - you can start up online with £10 deposit

Simple to understand pay-as-you-go pricing model with no catches

We charge for five key components
Virtual Dedicated Server instance hour – pence per hour
Storage – pence per Gigabyte per month
Data Transfer– pence per Gigabyte
Windows OS licensing – pence per hour
Other: Firewalling, Load Balancer

Fully automated billing module that lets customers see transparently what resources they have been using