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Our Services > Dedicated Servers
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Dedicated servers are the mainstay of Xssist™. We live and breathe dedicated servers.
We offer dedicated servers for your web, email and application hosting needs. You get to use good
quality 1U Single/ Dual Opteron servers or 4U Quad Opteron servers. From 1 CPU core to 16 CPU cores per
server, from 1GB ECC RAM to 64GB ECC RAM per server. We will maintain the hardware,
so you do not need to worry about replacing faulty hardware yourself. You no longer have to get up
at 4AM to find spare parts to fix a faulty server.
We specialise in Opteron servers in Singapore, Singapore dedicated servers.
Our customers are web hosting companies, web designers, application service providers, and SMEs.
Your customers access your services from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand,
Hong Kong, China, India, countries in the Asia Pacific region. You want, and appreciate having competent
Singaporean sysadmins as your first line of support.
Think of us as a sysadmin boutique™.
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What do we provide that our competition within the Asia Pacific commonly do not?
1. Monitoring of network latency is accessible publicly
http://www.xssist.com/smokeping/
It is well and good to boast of extremely high uptime figures, multi-homed networks, and branded network switches and routers. We do not do that. We
know the Internet is a best effort network, and we try to gather as much information about the health of the bandwidth we are getting from our
provider. From there, we send feedback to our provider and ask for improvements where appropriate. We are server guys, we take care of the
servers, and the datacentres which we get rack space from provides the network.
We provide charts which records a history of the network availability and latency which you can check before getting a dedicated server from us,
rather than providing unrealistic uptime guarantees. We constantly try to improve our service. If you have higher expectation, let us know, and we
may be able to arrange for higher quality bandwidth just for you. It will of course come at a higher price.
2. Fully spec-ed servers, usable bandwidth
We provide servers that are fully spec-ed for your application. If you are running a busy forum, we usually include 4GB RAM (as of Apr 08)
and above for you. If you are running cPanel, and hosting hundreds of sites, we want you to have SCSI. We like to provide RAID 1 with even
our lower end servers. For bandwidth, when we quote 10 Mbps commit with your server, that means you get the 10 Mbps from us.
Not 10 Mbps "shared" or "unmetered" or 10BaseT port, i.e. smoke and mirrors terms to provide you with alot less
than 10 Mbps.
3. Graphs of our network usage
As of 1st Jan 08, we have committed bandwidth of 65 Mbps from the datacentre, burstable to ~80Mbps. Current usage is around 45Mbps during
peak. You can see the usage from http://www.xssist.com/mrtg/
We have contract in place to take the committed bandwidth to 80 Mbps when it is required.
If you have requirements from 1 Mbps, up to 20 Mbps, we are probably the right size for you. If your requirement is above 20 Mbps, we may be too
small for you, as of 1st Jan 08.
4. KVM over IP and remote reboot switches
We are able to provide customers with KVM over IP and remote reboot power switches. This has been invaluable for clients.
5. Obsession on monitoring
We keep track of the temperature in our racks, bandwidth usage, network latency, and soon we will be able to show you graphs of voltage coming
into the racks.
If temperature is too high, or flucatating too much, we want to know. If there are brownouts, we want to know. If latency to a specific country is
higher than usual, or there is a DDOS affecting bandwidth, we want to know. And, we want to share what we know with our customers.
From monitoring, we know, and our customers know, where our weaknesss are, and we constantly try to improve, and strengthen areas where we are
weak in.
6. Strive to improve
Every month, we put back ~30% of revenues into purchasing and maintaining equipment. That means, for every $100/mth you pay us, we are spending
~$33/mth on purchasing more equipment. These can be more network equipment, firewalls, packet shapers, IDS, UPS, air distribution units,
spare parts and more servers. This improves the quality of service that we provide customers.
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Server Specifications
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Price per mth
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- Dual Opteron 275 (Total 4 CPU cores)
- 4GB ECC RAM
- 2 x 300GB SCSI RAID 1 (Mirror)
- cPanel, WHM license
- 2 IPs
- 1 Mbps guaranteed with packet shaper
- Bandwidth burstable
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SGD450.00 |
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- Quad Opteron 875 (Dual Core), Total 8 CPU cores
- 16GB ECC RAM
- 2 x 300GB SCSI RAID 1 (Mirror)
- 2 x 300GB SCSI JBOD
- cPanel, WHM license
- 2 IPs
- 2 Mbps guaranteed with packet shaper
- Bandwidth burstable
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SGD850.00 |
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* Above prices and specifications may be outdated. For current pricing, and hardware availability
(including dual core CPUs), please contact us using the contact form or call 64442012.
Price and specification updated: 3rd May 2008 |
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