Supported feature information
- Xen-based virtualization
- Root access with SSH login
- Guaranteed resources
- Industry-leading security features
- Bring your OS, or choose from a list
- Dedicated IP address
- Management via Web, SSH, and API
- Upload custom kernels & OS
- 'Real root' access.
- Install programs, edit configuration files. You're now a Linux/Unix "god"
- Management Console
- Serial-console access, remote reboot, reimaging, rescue console, and more!
- Management API
- Programmers may make use of our API for accessing administrative features.
- Dedicated hardware resources.
- The Xen platform assures that you receive all RAM and Disk storage you've been assigned. These resources aren't pooled or shared in any way, they're yours.
- Multi-core host systems
- All of our host-systems operate multi-core processors for improved scheduling.
- Multi-core instances
- Customers receive multiple cores for increased peak performance. We intentionally provide fewer virtual-cpus than our competitors for improved worse-case performance.
- Lightning fast storage
- We've scaled out our storage considerably, current benchmarks rank the performance from a single instance similar to that of solid-state storage
- Disk scrubbing
- Disk space is wiped before it is assigned to a customer. This ensures that if you ever cancel your account with us, your data will not be exposed to a third party.
- Open Source
- All of our tools, even those developed in-house, are available under Open Source licenses. We do not implement 'security through obscurity', which assures that we implement best practices and undergo the harshest form of code-review (public!)
- Managed Kernel
- We manage your OS kernel, ensuring a fast application of kernel-level security patches. User-supplied kernels are a possibility as well!
- Direct-routed IP traffic
- IP traffic is routed from our edge, to the core, and directly into each virtual machine. This eliminates IP spoofing, theft, snooping, and various other attacks otherwise possible.
- SELinux & ACL supported
- Our kernels support SELinux and filesystem ACLs. If you're not hapy with our configuration, you may also supply your own security-hardened kernel!
- SSH key support
- Customers may optionally provide SSH keys for their management console access. Of course, SSH keys may also be used for access to their OS images.
