Cloud Hosting

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Chitra Dunn
UK Sales Manager
Proxima Software Soltions
chitra.dunn@proxima-software.com

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Chitra Dunn
UK Sales Manager
Proxima Software Soltions
chitra.dunn@proxima-software.com

Billing Overview

Products fall under either of two pricing schemes to suit all of our customers:

By monthly subscription, paid in advance

This scheme offers the lowest rates for continuous use, and will suit customers who wish to host a website or other ongoing service, with the ability to scale it when demand rises.

* By hourly burst use, deducted from your prepaid balance

This scheme offers most flexibility for you to start, stop and scale your servers, as and when you need. The hourly rates are higher than our subscription rates, since the demand is less predictable for us. You can mix and match between these schemes, with burst charges applying when your use goes above your subscribed level. For example, you could subscribe for continuous disk storage, but pay for occasional virtual server use from your prepaid balance.

Cost

CPU: £0.012/core-GHz-hour
Memory: £0.016/GB-hour
Disk: £0.06/GB-month

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Network / Hardware and Virtualisation platform

Infrastructure - Please see ElasticHosts Infrastructure

Virtualisation Platform - KVM

Scalability - No limit if sufficient prepay balance

Load-Balancing - ElasticHosts supports private network VLANs. Customers can use these to communicate between one server acting as a load balancer and multiple web servers behind that

Supported OS - All PC operating systems: Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris

Hosting Features

DNS - No, but static Ips are available for external DNS

Email - No

IP Addresses - Dynamic Ips for all servers; Static Ips where required

Extra Applications

No

SLA

To be added at full commercial launch in Q3 09

Support and Community

E-mail and telephone support

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Billing Overview

Our plan is a small single fixed fee charged on a monthly basis. Cloud resource usage is not factored into our billing. Space / CPU / Memory are all limitless and fall within the single monthly fee.

Cost

We currently provide two Cloud hosting solutions.

1) Web hosting platform.

Using the Plesk control panel our shared platform resides on our 64 Node VMware cloud spanning two data centres with SAN to SAN replication. This is a flat fee of £2.75 per month + VAT with no extra resource costs.

2) Dedicated server solution.

Using our Cloud infrastructure we can provide dedicated server instances with full Root / Administrator level access in either Linux or Windows. Our dedicated servers are fully configurable to suit the needs of the user. CPU & RAM resources are dynamic and scale based on the users requirements. Storage starts with 30GB and can be scaled upwards at a later date. Starting from £54.99 per month + VAT with no extra resource costs.

Online calculator - N/A

Network / Hardware and Virtualisation platform

Infrastructure - Our Cloud currently consists of 64 high powered HP servers using RedHat Enterprise Linux, across three data centres in the UK using HP shared storage replicated between sites.

Virtualisation Platform - VMware vSphere & Xen

Scalability - No Limits

Load-Balancing - Foundry ServerIron

Supported OS - Web hosting platform is CentOS 5 and Dedicated servers can be either CentOS or Windows Server

Hosting Features

DNS - Yes we provide full DNS. We also provide Domains through our web hosting side. Underlying this IP addresses provisioned are portable, using our Foundry GLB algorithms IP addresses are positioned best due to application / web demands across all three data centres.

Email - Yes

IP Addresses - We provide a single IP address for our Web Hosting Cloud and unlimited IP addresses to our dedicated server customers, subject to RIPE guidelines.

Extra Applications

We provide the full Plesk PowerVault suite of applications for all users.

SLA

We provide a very strict SLA for both Web Hosting & Dedicated server customers. Our uptime guarantee is 99.99% which is calculated on a monthly basis and can be viewed on our uptime dashboard within our website. We provide 24/7 telephone support and 1hr E-Mail response times.

Support and Community

24/7 Telephone Support, 1hr response e-mail support and ticket support.

Not as yet

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