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CloudSigma marries the latest generation virtualisation technology at the backend with
intuitive front-end management and access tools. Our aim is to provide accessible and easy to use Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) making utility computing a reality.

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Key Features

CloudSigma is a pure IaaS provider. This means we don’t place restrictions on the software that you run on your servers or the level of access you have. We give all our customers full control to scale, install and customise servers to fit their needs, not ours.  

 

CloudSigma’s IaaS platform has a number of key features designed to benefit our customers:

 

Fully Independent Scalable Resources 

On the CloudSigma platform you can specify exactly how much CPU, RAM, Storage and Bandwidth you require independently. We don’t bundle resources together. If you are a high CPU user for example you won’t have to purchase bundled RAM which you don’t need! If you need a lot of storage but less CPU and RAM likewise no problem. There are no ‘standard‘ server size on the CloudSigma cloud.

 

Run Any Operating System and Software That You Like

CloudSigma does not place any restrictions on the operating systems or software that you run on your virtual servers. As long as the operating system can run on standard Intel/AMD architecture it will run on CloudSigma.

 

No Meaningless New Jargon

We provide the same computing resources and networking as traditional dedicated hosting but in a flexible instantly scalable form and with more efficient billing and usage models. Cloud computing doesn’t mean we need new names for old concepts so we keep it simple. A static IP address is called a static IP address, a VLAN is, well, a VLAN etc.

 

Virtual Servers That Behave like Real Servers

The CloudSigma system is designed so that virtual servers behave like traditional physical servers. Users can start, stop and restart them. Users can mount and unmount drives and customise networking settings like adding a static IP or VLAN.

 

Guaranteed CPU, RAM and Storage Allocation

CloudSigma uses the latest generation of virtualisation technology which allows it to guarantee fully reserved RAM and storage allocations without over-subscription. We also offer a minimum CPU availability proportional to reserved size. That means the total CPU available on a machine is shared pro-rata between virtual server instances subject to a minimum allocation. At times when the CPU is not fully allocated, virtual server instances on our cloud will actually have MORE CPU allocated to them than the user is paying for. We can’t see any reason to limit the CPU a user receives when there is free CPU and of course that additional CPU allocation is not charged for.

 

Persistent Servers and Storage

All CloudSigma virtual servers are persistent. Once created whether a server is started or stopped it will remain in that user’s account ready to use. Likewise, all storage is written to a user’s virtual drives. Data written to virtual drives persists and is available in the future whether or not the server that that drive is currently associated with is running or not.

 

Automatic Redundancy and Failover

In the unlikely event that there is a software or hardware failure that causes a host to stop working, the virtual servers will automatically start-up once that failure has been resolved. Most outage events (although rare) last just minutes. Automatic redundancy and failover allows our users to configure their virtual servers‘ software to continue working automatically after a server restart ensuring easy management and higher levels of availability. A user can manually reboot a virtual server instance at any time.

 

Full Control via API or Web Console

CloudSigma’s philosophy is to give maximum flexibility and control to users of our cloud. We allow all account actions to be executed via our API or innovative web console. Whether you are new to cloud computing or an experienced veteran, you will be able to access and control your virtual server instances and drives on many levels, irrespective of technical ability and experience.

 

Collaborate and Share

Many new companies and individuals are migrating to cloud computing and as they do so they are finding new, innovative and better ways of accomplishing old tasks. The CloudSigma community aims to allow our users to communicate and share ideas and software from within our web console on a secure and opt-in basis. One of the key benefits to all users (whether they participate in our community directly or not) is the growing public drive image library of different server drive images that any user can instantly deploy to their account for free.

 

100% SLA with x50 credit

CloudSigma has built its platform (both hardware and software) from the ground up specifically for the task of providing a reliable high availability IaaS product. This includes incorporating many layers of management and redundancy that ensure our cloud stays available to use for our customers. As a result we are happy to offer all customers a 100% Service Level Agreement (SLA) with a time credit of 50 times qualifying downtime. Read our full comprehensive cloud SLA agreement.
 

Security

CloudSigma aims to make our public cloud as secure as possible which in many cases means our users are able to increase the level of security for their computing not reduce it.

 

We have highlighted a few key security features of our platform below:
 

‘Data at Rest‘ is Encrypted

We store all user virtual drives fully encrypted using a 256bit AES-XTS cascade. When you delete a drive on the CloudSigma cloud, you can be confident that potentially usable data stored on that drive will never become accessible to anyone else.
 

Separation Between Customers

Virtual servers are separated at the hypervisor level. Virtual servers see each other as they would physical servers and they behave in the same way. Network traffic is isolated, each individual user can only see their own network traffic.
 

Strict Authentication

All access to the cloud is via secure 128bit SSL connections only, whether this is via our website console or our API. Every action on an account requires individual authentication via the API or website console.
 

You can read full details about our comprehensive cloud computing security platform.

Data Freedom (No lock-in)

One of the key concerns many have with moving to the cloud is vendor lock-in. Once you start using a service such as CloudSigma’s, how easy is it to get your data back out of the cloud?
 

Every user’s data is stored on virtual drives within the cloud.
As with most IaaS providers, with CloudSigma you can simply transfer your data out over IP to your new provider but what if you actually want to get ALL your data, whole drive images?
 

CloudSigma offers secure FTPS access directly to all virtual drive images.
Using any standard FTP client that supports FTPS. All our users can download at any time their drive images from our cloud. Getting literally all your data out of a CloudSigma account is as simply as downloading the drive images via FTP.

Technology

Virtualisation on the CloudSigma platform is built on the Linux KVM hypervisor, an advanced virtualisation platform that uses hardware extensions for virtualisation, built into mainline Linux. Forming part of the mainstream open source Linux Kernel community, KVM will continue to benefit from the latest innovations and security enhancements going forward.


Our platform guarantees completely configurable virtual servers that run in an entirely independent and isolated environment to maximise security and flexibility.


We have built additional features that allow our users to manage their accounts in any easy, flexible way whatever their technical ability and experience. Our API allows full account control and our innovative web console incorporates standard taxonomy that non-technical users find intuitive but that doesn’t restrict more advanced users.


By offering unique features such as direct and secure FTP access to a user’s virtual drives we aim to completely avoid data lock-in.


Both our API and web console have been designed in a modular extendible way to allow them to form the foundation on which future developments and innovation in the IaaS space can be incorporated.
 

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