Clustered Virtual Dedicated Servers

Citrix XenServer is a complete, managed server virtualization platform built on the powerful Xen hypervisor. Xen technology is widely acknowledged as the fastest and most secure virtualization software in the industry. XenServer is designed for efficient management of Windows® and Linux® virtual servers and delivers cost-effective server consolidation and business continuity.

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Virtualization is a technology that allows multiple servers to run on a single platform, saving on power and materials to bring green Virtualization computing to the enterprise or SMB. Virtualization converts discrete servers to virtualized images that run as independent machines on a centralized server or server pool.

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As you can see from the two posts above XenServer is an excellent platform for providing browser based application hosting for customers and employees of the enterprise or SMB.

It's the same benefits that make the VDS plans on this page an excellent alternative for any busy website that demands uptime and performance. It's a boon to the bottom line (TCO) and is healthier for the environment. For the smaller business or entrepreneur our shared cloud or clustered hosting plans offer similar advantages at prices starting at only $12.95 monthly. It's not a huge jump financially to equip your site with the performance offered by clustered or cloud hosting.

Net Locations takes a proactive and NOT a reactive approach to your Web services. Many hosting providers take a reactive approach, meaning when a hardware device fails they replace it, the server goes down and they restart it and so on. Our approach is different and means better uptime figures for your site:

• We proactively monitor all hardware 24/7 using predictive failure analysis to see if RAM, Drives, raid adapters, or other components are failing "before" this becomes service level affecting. In most cases we repair an issue before even you know about it.
• We provide you with 15 data points/retention and frequency on backups using R1 Soft CDP. This is included free of charge whether you have 10 GB of data or 130 GB.
• We handle all updates to server/services proactively as soon as stable versions are released.
• We monitor every service (FTP, mail, web, database, etc) and server loads 24/7 and respond to alerts "before" this becomes service level affecting.
• We use enterprise level appliances and software to scan for viruses and malware
• We will respond to and assist in cleaning when sites are hacked or infected.
• We use only true server grade motherboards, CPU, RAM, RAID adapters and redundant components such as power supplies and network cards.
• Our support staff are always available and provide an exceptional level of service

In recent times more and more IT departments, individuals and small companies are leaning towards virtualiztion as is available through XenServer and other similar products. XenServer offers these distinct benefits:

• Consolidation of workloads saving power and management costs.
• Cuts IT costs by more than 50%
• Easy to adapt to the changes that are constantly happening in the IT industry.
• Easy to adapt storage units.
• The management tools of XenServer would cut the server requirements by a factor of almost 10.
• Optimizes server workload so that the performance and the utilization of the server are improved
• XenServer ensures that the requirements of the application and the performance levels of your server are always met and organizations can accelerate the speed in which new applications can be send to production.
• XenServer minimizes downtime by eliminating the need for planned downtime.
• It also reduces the impact that failures can have and also it provides protection against disasters. Thus an always available virtual infrastructure is provided to you.