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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 server.
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 Jun 09, we have committed bandwidth of 107 Mbps from the datacentre. Current usage is around 65 Mbps during peak.
You can see the usage from http://www.xssist.com/mrtg/
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, virtual media, and remote reboot switches
We have invested heavily in KVM over IP, virtual media and remote reboot switches. KVM over IP
allows a remote user a view of the video output of the server, and control of the keyboard and mouse inputs, over the
Internet. How is this useful? When is KVM over IP needed? Any scenario where you lose network access to
the server, such as access denied after editing iptables or sshd, bootup stuck at fsck or misconfigured grub,
kernel problems, /etc/fstab, the list goes on and on.
What if you need to boot into a rescue disk? Virtual media, together with KVM over IP, allows that.
You can mount a floppy, CD or DVD on your PC, and present the media over the Internet to the server. The virtual media,
is emulated via USB.
How about a kernel crash, or server being unresponsive for any reason? A remote reboot switched PDU
works well in this scenario. Login via web interface, and issue power off and on. Check the status via KVM.
With KVM over IP, and remote reboot (switched PDU), it is almost like being in front of the server.
5. Obsession on monitoring
We keep track of the temperature and humidity 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
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- Dual Opteron 275 (Total 4 CPU cores)
- 4GB ECC RAM
- 2 x 300GB 15K SCSI RAID 1 (Mirror)
- cPanel, WHM license
- 2 IPs
- 1 Mbps guaranteed with packet shaper
- Bandwidth burstable
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SGD 518/mth |
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- Quad Opteron 875 (Dual Core), Total 8 CPU cores
- 16GB ECC RAM
- 4 x 300GB 15K SCSI RAID 10
- cPanel, WHM license
- 2 IPs
- 2 Mbps guaranteed with packet shaper
- Bandwidth burstable
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SGD 975/mth |
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KVM over IP with Virtual Media available as option.
* Prices and specifications current as of 28th Feb 2010. To place an order, discuss custom configurations, or volume pricing,
please contact us using the contact form.
* Availability: server provisioning is currently ~48 hour from receipt of payment.
Rush order, 4 hours provisioning, is available with additional charge. |
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