Windows Dedicated Servers
I’ve been with M5 for 10 years, and I still maintain that they are the best kept secret on the internet.
Windows Dedicated Servers
Have your own Microsoft Windows dedicated server on hardware or create a Windows VM in our cloud. You are Administrator, do whatever you want with it. No minimum term, no set-up fee.
Windows Server is the ubiquitous and familiar server operating system, perfect for the person that wants a server in a data center connected to the backbone of the Internet, but needs the familiar interface and compatibility of Microsoft Windows.
What other M5Hosting customers do with Windows:
- IIS/MySQL/PHP (WIMP) Web Server
- eCommerce hosting with IIS and MS-SQL
- Remote Desktop hosting for mobile workforce
- Microsoft Windows Hyper-V virtualization
- Exchange Mail server hosting or backup mail server
- Mail filtering system
- DNS server (primary or secondary)
- Game server
- Development platform
Our standard MS Windows dedicated server platform is a high-performance, 1U or 2U high Supermicro chassis with your choice of processors such as Intel Dual-core and single or dual Intel Xeon. We have dedicated servers available from 4GB of RAM to 512GB of RAM. All of our dedicated servers have switched 1Gbps (1Gbit) Ethernet connections. Customized configurations are available with larger amounts of RAM or 10Gbits network. We can also colocate your provided hardware. Other dedicated server hardware configurations are available.
All our Dedicated Servers are monitored for availability (pinged every 5 minutes). In the event that your server goes down, you will be paged and/or e-mailed at the same time as our NOC. This web-based system can also give you uptime statistics and you can review historical monitoring 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, Performance & Bandwidth Monitoring
Each and every switch port on our network is monitored for bandwidth, errors, discards and other anomalies. You have 24×7 web-based access to graphs that detail your bandwidth utilization by speed, and data transfer over time. You can also monitor your server health (CPU, disk use, memory, disk I/O, system load average). As an additional service, we can set alerts for you if thresholds are exceeded.
The facility is staffed 24×7 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.
| Premium Network Data Transfer Included | 5TB/mo |
| Network Port Speed | 1Gbps |
| Your Actual Max Burstable Speed | 1Gbps |
| Included IPv4 Addresses | 1 |
| Cost of Additional IPv4 with Justification | Up to 8 Free |
| IPv6 Available | Yes |
| Temporary use of KVM over IP | Free |
| 24/7 Web-based Server Reboots | Free |
| Unlimited “Root” User Privileges | Included |
| Server Monitoring (i.e. ping) with Customer Paging | Free |
| Service Monitoring (i.e. HTTP, SMTP, etc.) with Customer Paging | Free |
| Actual Traffic Utilization Graphs | Free |
| Switched Power Outlets (Web-based Instant Server Reboots) | Free |
| SNMP Server Performance Metrics and alerts (CPU, disk, I/O, Load Avg, Mem) | Free |
| Network Uptime Guarantee | 99.95% |
| Redundant Power Grid supplies |  |
| Uninterruptable Battery Backup (UPS) | |
| Diesel Backup Generator | |
| Triple Redundant Chillers | |
| BGP Routing with Multiple, Redundant, 10Gbps or Faster Carrier Connections | |
| Fast Response Email Support | 24×7 |
| “Remote Hands” (reboots, KVM, etc.) | 24×7 |
| LSI and 3ware Hardware RAID cards (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 / RAID 10) | $14/mo + up |
| Server Load Balancing | $40/mo + up |
| Dedicated Firewall Service | $99/mo + up |
| Data Backups (R1Soft CDP Backups) | $49/mo + up |
We have systems standing by for you to move into quickly. Be up and running in a few hours. 95% of orders are completed within 24 hours. All prices are monthly, and services are provided monthly, unless other arrangements are made.
If you have questions, need a special configuration, or just want to know there are humans here, please contact us before you buy.