Dedicated Debian Servers
Have your own ultra-stable Debian dedicated server. You are root, do whatever you want* with it. No minimum term, no setup fee.
Debian is famous for it's "apt" package manager, and a huge library of pre-compiled packages (over 15,000). It is very easy to install, update and remove software in your Debian system. Debian is Open Source software. The Debian operating system is free of cost. In practical use it is perfect for the person that wants the stability but does not require the commercial support and cost that commercial products offer. Debian also features a social contract which you can review.
What other M5Hosting customers do with Debian:
- Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) Web Server
- Xen Hypervisor/Dom0
- Security Audit launch pad
- Mail server or Backup Mail Server
- DNS
- CVS or Subversion (SVN) platform
- shell server
- game server
- development platform
- Anything you use Linux for !
Our standard Debian Linux dedicated server platform is a high-performance, 1U high Supermicro chassis with your choice of processors ranging from Celeron 2.66GHz to Core2 Duo E6600 and Quad Core Xeons with up to 8Gigs of RAM. All servers start with a minimum of 1G of RAM. All our servers have switched 100Mbit/s Ethernet connection. Other dedicated server hardware configurations are available.
All our Debian Dedicated Servers are monitored for availability using Nagios (Open Source software). You will be paged and/or e-mailed in the event your server goes down. This web-based system can also give you uptime statistics and you can perform ad hoc queries against historical data for your servers. We can also monitor network-based services such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, and others on your server for availability.
Web-based Availability Monitoring
Each and every switch port is monitored for bandwidth and errors using Cacti (Open Source Software). You get 24x7 web-based access to these graphs that detail your bandwidth utilization in speed, data transfer over time, as well as errors and discards at the switch port.
Web-based bandwidth graphs
Customized configurations are available. We can also colocate your provided hardware.
The facility is staffed 24x7 and is serviced with redundant air, power and network. We share the facility with some of America's top financial institutions, government contractors, biotech and research organizations, hosting companies and network security companies.
What sets us apart from all others...
Our network's lightning quick, punchy network response to almost anywhere is ensured by an Avaya Converged Network Analyzer powered performance-based self healing network. The Converged Network Analyzer device monitors latency, jitter, packet loss and handshake round-trip time, BGP blackouts, brownouts and more, then routes your traffic though the fastest and most reliable backbone. The selected route used for each communication will be the fastest of any of our direct connectivity to UUNet, Qwest, XO, Level 3, WilTel/Yipes, Verio, MCI/UUNet, Deutsche Telekom, and Savvis. This solution increases performance by greater than 50% over regular BGP solutions. There just isn't a better network in San Diego.
All dedicated and colocated servers are located behind a very powerful transparent firewall. We will provide any filtering rules you require to protect your systems, at no additional cost to you. Most providers do not even offer this service, those that do may charge as much as $200/mo for the service in addition to hosting charges.
All systems on our network are monitored by an Intrusion Detection System, which may alert our staff to attempted attacks to or from your server.
We are proud of our solid performance and availability. See our actual network availability statistics here.
| Features Available On All Servers |
Dedicated Server |
| Resources |
| Monthly Data Transfer |
250,000 MB |
| Ethernet Switch Port Speed |
100 Mbit/s |
| Your actual max burstable speed |
100 Mbit/s |
| Your Own IP Address |
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| Unlimited Additional IP's at no charge with standard justification |
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| Free Initial Custom OS installation |
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| Root password to your server |
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| KVM over IP access when needed |
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| Options |
| Shared Firewall Service |
Included ! |
| 3Ware 9650SE or 8006-2 RAID card (RAID 0 or 1) |
Optional |
| Data Backups |
Optional |
| Operating Systems |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
Optional |
| CentOS |
No Charge |
| Fedora Core |
No Charge |
| OpenBSD or FreeBSD |
No Charge |
| Debian or Ubuntu |
No Charge |
| Windows 2000 or 2003 |
Lic. Req'd |
| Data Center & Network |
| 99.9% Uptime Guarantee |
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| Server and Service Monitoring (Nagios) with Customer Paging |
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| Customer Accessible Traffic Graphs (Cacti) |
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| 2 megawatt Battery Backup (UPS) |
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2 megawatt Diesel
Backup Generator |
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| OC-12, OC-48 and Multi-Gigabit Connections to 8 Carriers and 40 peers |
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| BGP Fault-Tolerant Routing |
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| Route Science Optimized Routing |
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| Support |
| 24-hour Fast Response Email Support |
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| 24-hour "Remote Hands" (reboots, etc) |
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12-hour Telephone Support
(8am to 8pm PST) |
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We have systems standing by for you to move into quickly. By paying by PayPal Subscriptions, you pay monthly, and you can cancel any time.
We will communicate with you about your new server using the e-mail address tied to your PayPal account. If you have questions, need a special configuration, or just want to know there are humans here, please contact us before you buy.
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