Technology / Server
Every virtual server deployed by Ultraspeed resides on a dedicated physical server, built with redundancy in mind. Ultraspeed's system is designed in order to reduce the risk of hardware failure, which is a common cause of downtime elsewhere in the Managed Hosting industry.
data security
Hard drive failure is the most common cause of physical server failure, so Ultraspeed have removed all local hard drives in the physical servers. Instead, all data is stored on Ultraspeed's storage array network (SAN).power efficiency
A server's power supply unit facilitates the conversion from AC power to the DC power required by the motherboard to operate the system. Ultraspeed's physical servers are powered directly by DC power, and use a DC rectifier card rather than the traditional PSU. The DC card has no moving parts, and provides a substantially increased Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) rate. Typically the MTBF of the PSU is greater than any other component within a Managed Hosting provider's system.server specs
Ultraspeed uses a SGI server chassis combined with mostly Intel parts. All Ultraspeed's physical servers are built locally in-house, and stress tested for at least 48 hours before being put into production.
Ultraspeed's physical servers are built with two low-voltage Intel Xeon processors, giving eight cores in total; 16GB or 32GB memory configurations are both available. Virtual servers can be assigned resources within these parameters, and in consultation with the Ultraspeed Systems Engineering team.
Servers are configured with two physical network cards; one of these cards is dedicated to connecting the server to the private network, the other to connecting to the public network (i.e., the Internet). Each card has multiple gigabit ports on it and each port is connected to physically diverse networks, providing insulation against multiple path failure.
Servers are connected to a separate lights out management network; this gives Ultraspeed Systems Engineers remote reboot ability, along with full KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse).
