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Don't like to share, but a pair of heartbeated servers won't provide high-availability data access that you need? Get your own private cluster hosted here at base2co. Enjoy all the benefits of our shared cluster without the disk space limitations and more access to the servers themselves.
Private clusters start with five servers. Two work as a redundant load balancing pair, three are redundant RealServers serving your data. Our server clusters are designed with three things in mind. High availability, redundancy, and scalability. What does this mean?
• High Availability - One server might not be enough to service requests in a timely manner so you can get on with your businesses operations. By having multiple servers all serving the same data, the server that actually handles the request is chosen on a request by request basis so that the load is spread evenly across the servers.
• Redundancy - Our clusters offer you protection from a server failure much like our paired servers. Only better. With Heartbeat, if one RealServer fails, the other two are able to continue handling request while the failed server is repaired. Two load balancers ensures that the failure of one load balancer does not prevent the RealServers from receiving requests.
• Scalability - What happens when three RealServers are not enough to handle the load? Simple, we add in another RealServer to the cluster. Typical peak performance occurs at eight (8) RealServers, delivering more than 1.5 terabytes of data per month. This is an alternative to using a single, powerful server that would have to be completely replaced with yet another expensive single, powerful server when the first becomes obsolete.
Dramatically reduce your Total Cost of Ownership by sizing your hardware for your definable needs. No need to predict four years into the future. We recommend purchasing "right fit for now" equipment and upgrade later as needed. A two year cycle of OS and hardware upgrades have shown a 200% to 300% performance boosts in our own racks. When you upgrade, it's across the board - OS, processor, memory, and hard drive space are all improve. Do not forget because the replacement server, it components and OS are all the same vintage you can minimize the chance and impact of incompatibilities.
| Compaq DX2000 MT | Proliant DL320 G4 1U | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Processor | 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 | 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium D 820 | |
| Memory | 512MB | 1 GB | |
| Hard Drive | 40 GB | 80 GB | |
| Price | $9,295.00 USD | $15,995.00 USD |
Private server cluster, configured to your specifications with Linux, and one application. Price includes configuration of high availability and redundancy services. Prices listed are for five (5) servers. Configuration changes once in production, and content updates in the case of websites will be subject to our technical support rates outlined in our billing policy.
We offer a variety of applications we will configure your private cluster for. The first application comes with the cluster, while additional configured applications will cost $800.00 USD. All servers will come configured for high availability. All configuration is done with an emphasis on security.
• Squid Proxy
• Mail Server
• Apache Web Server
• MySQL Database Server
• Samba File Server
• PHP
There are three hosting options available to you once we've completed configuration and testing of your cluster. You can choose managed or unmanaged hosting with us, or we can ship the cluster to you for use at your location.
Managed Hosting - We'll host the private cluster here at base2co, and take care of configuration and content changes for you. Hosting starts at $350.00 per month with 2 technical support hours per month. Technical support and operating system/application configuration changes made beyond those 2 hours are subject to our standard "on call" rate of $200.00 per hour. However, if needed, you may purchase 10 hour blocks of technical support for $1000.00 USD* to supplement your regular service.
Included with managed hosting is:
• A secure WebDAV on your cluster allowing you update content for free
• 100 GB of bandwidth monthly
• Up to 3 Fixed IP addresses
• Continuous on and off-site backup of your data
• Managed DNS for up to five (5) domains
• Fifty (50) Email addresses for your business
Only outbound bandwidth use is counted towards the 100 GB monthly quota. There is, however, a per megabyte charge for exceeding this limit. Please contact us if you'd like more bandwidth per month.
Unmanaged Hosting - We'll host the private cluster here, but you're in charge of configuration and content updates. Hosting starts at $250.00 per month. Technical support and operating system/application configuration changes are subject to our standard "on call" rate of $200.00 per hour. However, if needed, you may purchase 10 hour blocks of technical support for $1000.00 USD*
Included with unmanaged hosting is:
• A secure login (SSH) on your server pair
• 100 GB of bandwidth monthly
• Up to 3 Fixed IP addresses
• Continuous on and off-site backup of your data
• Managed DNS for up to five (5) domains
• Fifty (50) Email addresses for your business
Only outbound bandwidth use is counted towards the 100 GB monthly quota. There is, however, a per megabyte charge for exceeding this limit. Please contact us if you'd like more bandwidth per month.
*Hours purchased in blocks may be used up to 368 days from date of purchase
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