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Now you can have a fully independent server at a fraction of the cost of Colocation. Utilizing industry-leading VMware virtualization software, we have created our Private Cloud with all the redundancies you need for your dedicated server environment. VMware puts a secure layer between the clustered hardware (the ipHouse vHosted Cloud Computing platform) and your Virtual Server (also known as a Virtual Dedicated Server). VMware Virtual Center monitors the hardware cluster to automatically distribute the processing requirements across our Private Cloud.

ipHouse offers a wide range of pre-installed Operating Systems patched and ready to go! Each Virtual Server Operating System remains fully autonomous and independent. Click on the Free Trial Link above to sign up today!

Why ipHouse?

ipHouse was founded by a group of Minnesota Internet veterans with the desire to provide better service to users who are frustrated with technology and the Internet. Our team members have been providing online services to a discerning public since 1984 and we've got the expertise to make your online experience trouble free. ipHouse is located in downtown Minneapolis. Follow this link for full details and information on our data center and how we secure our hosting solutions.

As a certified VMware Professional Service & Solutions Provider, ipHouse has the knowledge and licensing to provide you with the Private Virtual Server solution that is right for your business.

Data Center Details

How do Virtual Servers work?

In a nutshell, VMware allocates the resources of physical hardware, (servers) across multiple Operating System installations (Virtual Machines).

VMware manages physical hardware resources by analyzing the balances of individual computing demands versus the entire resource availability. To do this, VMware is installed on a group of physical servers and VMware then creates resource pools from the CPU, memory, and storage. Prior to your Operating System being installed, a Virtual Machine is created, and CPU, memory, and storage are allocated out of the resource pools. Your Operating System in then installed on the Virtual Machine.

VMware divides multiple physical servers into resource pools, allowing the dynamic allocation of resources to the Virtual Machines, as needed. Via the optional Dynamic Resource Scheduling, VMware can analyze CPU and memory utilization, and redistribute processing demand across multiple servers transparently. Dynamic Resource Scheduling ensures that your Virtual Server always get the resources it requires. VMware also takes advantage of our clustered hardware and can provide automatic High Availability for your Virtual Server. When you select this option, VMware will automatically reboot your Virtual Server on an alternate physical server in the event of a hardware failure.

What can Virtual Server Hosting be used for?

VMware is perfect for sporadic or dynamic processing needs. Do you have a project that requires customized hosting, but doesn't justify buying a dedicated server? Virtual Server Hosting is perfect for you. Virtualization provides enterprise grade resource management allowing Virtual Server Hosting to fit most of your computing needs. Virtual Server Hosting and virtualization are identical to traditional Colocation, without the large capital expense!

Virtual Server Hosting is perfect for:

• eCommerce Hosting.
• Hosting mission critical data in a high availability environment.
• Secure survey and data collection servers.
• Providing a Test or ' Proof of Concept ' platform to evaluate software.
• Running Apache on any flavor of Unix or Windows!
• Windows Server 2008 R2 for test / eval of Microsoft SQL 2010 (Kilimanjaro).
• Coldfusion 9 Development and Staging platform.
• Straight up FreeBSD, RHEL, and Ubuntu performance comparisons. (What's the best *nix?)
• MySQL reporting server.
• Hosting a short term project or temporary server.
• Most any type of Internet content you can think of...

Sounds great, but do I need to manage my Virtual Servers?

No you don't! Managed Virtual Server Hosting is available! If the maintaining your servers is a headache, ipHouse engineers can provide security updates and patches for your Virtual Server, via our optional Managed Server offering (speak to one of our Sales Gurus about fully Managed Hosting). Our engineers will install a Fortigate firewall and proactively maintain your Virtual Server OS, applying patches as they are released. Fully Managed Hosting allows you to focus on your business instead of the security of your Virtual Server. With the expertise of ipHouse managing your server, you can rest assured knowing your Virtual Server is safe and secure with the latest patches and updates.

Virtual Server Hosting is perfect!

ipHouse Virtual Server Hosting provides superior performance and value over traditional Colocation. Trust your business to ipHouse Virtual Server Hosting using VMware, the virtualization solution tested and used by Fortune 500 companies across the world. Now you can save cash, help the environment and improve your uptime by using VMware Virtual Server Hosting from ipHouse.

Benefit the world by using Virtual Server Hosting!

• Reduces Emissions: Virtual Server Hosting is a smart way for your company to help the environment!
• Consolidation: One of the biggest goals of a System Administrator is to save money. This is exactly why server consolidation has become such a hot-button topic. Combining the roles of multiple operating systems onto groups of servers is a much easier option with a Virtual Server. Using a Virtual Server for a consolidation project makes more efficient use of system resources, provides a single point of centralized management, reduces total cost of ownership, and reduces network complexity.
• Legacy Applications: Unfortunately, sometimes we are bound to older operating systems and hardware in order to support legacy applications. Using a Virtual Server you can combine the role of a legacy application server with more up-to-date hardware by putting the legacy applications on a separate Virtual Machine.
• Manageable Security: Security is perhaps the biggest concern for any organization or any network. When your organization requires the use of servers with multiple roles, segmenting those roles onto different Virtual Servers provides wider security options. In doing this, you can segment specific services to different network cards and define separate firewall rules for each Virtual Server.
• Test Environments: One of the best things about Virtualization is that a Virtual Server can be completely separate from your production network. This means that you can create several Virtual Servers and even Virtual Networks to be used for test purposes. In these virtual environments you can feel free to test new net-centric application and software rollouts without the risk of negative effects on your mission critical production environment.
• Automatic Failover: Optional VMware Enterprise servers have the advantage of high availability and stay online, even during hardware and software upgrades. This is the true enabling attribute of Virtualization technology and its greatest single benefit. Automatic migration technology allows your Virtual Server to continue to be online during isolated hardware failures or even data center failures. This technology moves a running Virtual Machine between Virtual Server hardware automatically, and can be structured to move based on load or availability.
• Right sized: Easily add more RAM, CPU and storage allowing you to save on today's IT costs while positioning your company for tomorrow's growth.

Base Virtual Server Configurations

Please see our SV Virtual Servers Product Sheet product sheet for more detailed information.

Not sure what you need? Our VMware certified staff and engineers can help you configure the right server for your organization. Give us a call at 612-337-6320 or 1-877-337-6320 Toll Free and put our knowledge to work for you.

Sign up for your Virtual Server today.