Cirrus Tech Upgrades its Xen Virtual Machine Hosting Plans

Company aims to attract SMBs and enterprises looking for an alternative to dedicated server hosting with its Xen VM hosting plans.

Cirrus Tech, a web hosting and virtualization technologies provider, yesterday announced that it has updated its Xen Virtual Machine (VM) hosting plans with a more robust version of the Xen VM offering.

The company articulates that it has observed that more and more SMBs and enterprises are moving away from traditional web hosting solutions, such as dedicated servers, towards a more flexible hosting environment, such as Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Virtual Machines (VMs). With its Xen VM hosting service, clients can benefit from high-availability, dynamic scalability, and built-in redundancy for their mission-critical hosted applications.

According to it, the hallmark of the company's Xen VM plans is the high-availability options offered. With high-availability, clients can have peace of mind in knowing that if there is a hardware related issue on the hardware node (server) that their VM is currently running on, their VM will be automatically switched to another available hardware node for minimum service interruption.

The company states that with the ability to scale up to 8 CPU Cores and 8 GB of RAM, its Xen VM plans allow clients to start small and scale their service when needed without having to worry about the costs and time associated with migrating their services or upgrading existing hardware. The hardware independence inherent in the Xen VM allows for client's VMs being able to utilize even more resources and newer hardware in the future as they become available.

It further states that each Xen Virtual Machine offered by the company is an isolated virtual environment that is allotted guaranteed resources, such as CPU, RAM, and disk space. The company has built its Xen VM hosting infrastructure with redundancy as a key factor. All Xen VMs run on Dell Blade servers with redundant power and redundant SAS hard drives. Xen VMs feature hardware Raid 6 which allows data redundancy of up to 2 hard drive failures. Clients can also choose to purchase multiple Xen VMs and load balance them with a virtual load balancer add-on. The company adds that its Xen VMs are available in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the following Linux distributions: CentOS 5, Debian 5, Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora Core 12.