Cloud Computing

As the technology evolves, so does SoftReady! We are pround to announce our new Cloud environment for our web aplications. We will obviously maintain our range of reliable Dedicated Servers for some time to come, but as Virtual Private Server technology matures, we will phase-in and embrace this new flexible technology. Read on and learn more about our future offer.

State-of-the-art data centre

Our virtual servers sit in a state-of-the-art data centre, designed with a clustered-server architecture and RAID-protected storage area network (SAN) with Microsoft to ensure that all our services get the best of virtual servers.

Cutting edge hypervisor technology

Our virtual servers run on with a dedicated operating system thanks to Microsoft's Hyper-V software. The hypervisor runs on physical servers to ensure virtual servers operate securely and independently from each other.

Dynamic server-load balancing

We improve business performance with the centralized storage area network (SAN) and automatic load-balancing technology for servers. It assesses the resources needed by virtual servers and distributes workloads across physical machines to give our customers the best performance in all our solutions.

Automatic failover

We keep your business operational and practically eliminate downtime with automatic failover on our virtual servers. In the unlikely event that one of the physical servers encounters a hardware issue, the virtual server will failover to reserve hardware automatically. This is because our virtual servers are stored on a centralised SAN, which means they can run on any of the available physical servers in the Data Center. This ensures us a guarantee of 99.99% uptime and peace of mind that we always have reserve hardware running.

Adjustable Resources

To respond to the changing needs of our customer’s business needs, we keep track of all server's resources in dashboard displays receive automatic alerts us when the allocated resources are close to capacity. Based on this information, we schedule the necessary upgrades / downgrades to the virtual servers.

Thus, we can manage resources to cope with expected peaks in use, for instance, during a marketing campaign or at the end of a month. Then, schedule them to return to their original specifications at the end of that period. We can also increase resources immediately, and for as little as a day, to cope with unexpected peaks in use, once they are detected.

We use a Data Center with Type One Virtualization

To make sure that we get the best virtual server we operate from a Data Center that uses type one virtualization.

To better understand how different types of virtualisation and server architecture can affect performance, we have summarized the differences:

Type one

Virtual servers have independent, isolated operating systems and access hardware resources easily through a thin hypervisor.

Type two

Virtual servers run on top of a virtual machine manager. They share aspects of a host operating system, which they must run through before they access hardware resources.

The difference

Many of our competitors use type two virtualisation for their virtual servers. It's a basic, low-end product, so make sure you get the best with our solutions. Quite often virtual servers using type two virtualisation will run Parallels Virtuozzo. In this model, virtual servers share aspects of a host operating system. As a result, their virtual servers compete for resources within the operating system, which can impede performance.

Two types of server architecture

Standalone

In this architecture, virtual servers run on specific physical servers and use direct-attached storage.

We are phasing out all services that run under under this architecture. This procedure is smooth and transparent to our customers and will not affect the current performance of the contracted services.

Clustered

In this architecture, virtual servers share the resources of several physical servers and a centralised storage.

The difference

A clustered architecture supports automatic failover and load balancing, which will gives our virtual servers better performance and high availability.