Dear Reader,
this is a question we hear often and while in earlier years it was quite easy to answer, nowadays it is not so trivial. Platforms hosting virtual servers in days gone by were usually underperforming and the overhead incurred in virtualization often made for an appallingly slow result.
Today, virtual platforms are quite capable of keeping up with physical systems. One reason for this is the storage of the virtual hard disks. While these used to be stored individually on conventional data carriers and could therefore only be as fast as the physical storage allowed, the data is now stored on distributed file systems in our data center. This means that the virtual hard disks are no longer stored as one large file on the systems, but are distributed across the entire data center. This provides an enormous speed advantage, since it is not one physical device that provides the data, but several data carriers simultaneously. By combining modern NVME storage as the caching layer with conventional hard disks as the capacity layer, we achieve speeds in the range of several gigabytes per second in data transfer rate.
State-of-the-art memory latches with ECC error detection ensure that data retrieval from RAM is as fast and secure as from physical systems. By interconnecting multiple high-performance machines, we ensure maximum fail-safety and this surpasses a single physical machine in availability. The ability to adjust the parameters of the machine while it is running also provides a great deal of flexibility.
Want to learn more about hosting on virtual platforms? Just contact us. We will be happy to help you find the right hosting solution.
Best regards
Your Net-Build Team
- Tuesday, May 24, 2022
