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You can achieve the highest availability with our Ceph HA vServer products. Each virtual machine is added to a “High Availability Group”, which permanently monitors the status of the vServer. If a host system fails and your virtual machine is installed on this host system, it is automatically redistributed to other host systems after a resource check and restarted.

The redistribution of high-availability virtual machines is fully automated by the hypervisor used so that manual intervention by a service technician is not necessary.

This type of high availability is only possible because all host systems have a cluster file system. There are a variety of different solutions for cluster file systems, in our case Ceph is used, as we have had consistently positive experiences with the use of Ceph in terms of stability and flexibility for several years.

In addition to high availability on the hypervisor side, all host systems also have a

• Redundant network supply via different switches, which in turn have redundant power and network uplinks
• Redundant power supply within the racks via A+B feeds, which are supplied via independent UPS systems from different manufacturers
• Redundant air conditioning via two air conditioning units on different sides of the building

Only CPUs for the highest performance requirements are used in our Enterprise vServer offerings. We use CPUs from the AMD EPYC series for our Ceph Cluster range and AMD Ryzen CPUs with the highest possible single-core performance for our Compute vServer products.

Our Compute vServer CPUs are dedicated to each VM. There is no overselling here to guarantee our customers maximum CPU performance.

In addition to pure CPU performance, only the latest generation of NVMe SSDs are used in our Enterprise vServer products. This rounds off the maximum CPU performance with a high IOPS performance and data rate on the storage side.

DDoS protection

DDoS protection can be booked as an option with every IP-Projects server product. This is available free of charge in the smallest version as “Bronze DDoS Protection”. This free DDoS protection offers basic protection against network attacks, but is limited in its range of functions so that it is not possible to customize the filters individually.

In the Silver, Gold and Platinum variants, individual filter templates and customization options are also available.

Firewalls

When booking an Enterprise vServer, the vServers are provided directly on the Internet. There are no regulations or network-side port blocks on our part. The server itself can therefore be secured via server-side firewalls on the vServer itself.

Alternatively, we offer an external firewall appliance, which is operated on a high-availability firewall cluster. These firewalls offer additional protection and WAN-LAN separation of traffic. In general, several vServers can be installed behind a single firewall appliance. This is particularly recommended for the protection of critical enterprise vServers. We rely on OPNSense as a firewall solution.

Intrusion Prevention

The optimal firewall appliances also offer the option of installing numerous plugins within the firewall system. One of these plugins is an intrusion prevention system, which offers additional filtering options to protect web stores or other critical websites in order to detect and filter certain attack vectors in advance.

This can be a particularly important criterion for sensitive customer data.

Data center certification

In order to ensure the highest possible physical security standard, we only use data centers that have a very high certification standard. This includes, for example, the following certifications:

• EN50600 - European standard for the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of data centers
• ISO 9001 - Standard for the requirements of quality management systems
• ISO 27001 - Standard for information security management systems
• PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (particularly important for the operation of online stores)

A data center certification therefore guarantees certain standards for the operating environment of the servers and their compliance over time.

Backup solution

Each of our Enterprise vServers is backed up daily free of charge. The backup takes the form of an incremental backup to a central backup storage. This backup storage is located outside the operating environment of the vServer Hypervisor in its own data center.

The spatial separation of backups and live data has top priority.

The backup cycles can be increased to up to 7 days for all Enterprise vServers for a small surcharge. It is also possible to book an additional external vServer backup storage, which can be mounted as a network drive - SMBv3 - within a virtual machine, for example. Individual backups can then be created here using your own backup scripts.

Snapshot function

We also offer the option of creating snapshots free of charge with our Enterprise vServer offers. Snapshots are particularly suitable for carrying out a quick recovery if, for example, an operating system update cannot be completed cleanly.

Upgrade and scaling

With our Enterprise virtual machines, resources can be easily upgraded within the Enterprise vServer packages offered. If the requirements exceed the package limits, we can make individual adjustments depending on the available system resources or prepare an offer for a dedicated server system. This depends on the price and performance factor.

Migration to a dedicated server is possible in certain cases - for example, if a firewall already separates the IP addresses of our vServer environment. Our technicians will be happy to advise you on this to clarify the case of a possible IP takeover.

Price stability

Thanks to long-term supply contracts with our data center service providers, our Enterprise vServers also have long-term price stability. This gives our customers planning and future security for their application operations.