vps: network

[purplewarlock]

I'm thinking about getting the Copper VPS as a dev box for developing some financial software, had a couple ?'s.

Is the VPS network as good as the dedicated server network?
Is it also in the same Chicago building?
What is downtime on VPS + dedicated over the last year (downtimes that lasted 3 min or more?)
On dedicated it says inbound traffic is unlimited. Is this true on the VPS too or for VPS does inbound traffic count towards your quota.

Does anyone know an IP for CME/Globex (data exchange service) for ping purposes from the Chicago datacenter?

Then a ? more for down the road, is it possible to lease hardware load-balancers (configured managed by Steadfast) for load balancing+failover? Also hardware firewalls or is that included?

thx!

[Kevin]

Our VPSes are hosted on the same network in our facilities in Chicago as the rest of our services. Bandwidth for VPS hosts is billed as cumulative usage inbound and outbound.

Downtimes for physical servers have varied, though there have been no network outages outside of scheduled maintenance for any services in the past year. If there is a problem with VPS server hardware on the node your VPS is hosted on, this could cause service to be interrupted until the issue is repaired.

A dedicated server carries roughly equivalent risks for an equivalent outage.

We offer a 100% uptime SLA for Dedicated Server and Colocation services, so outages caused by network or power failures make you eligible almost immediately for a credit on your account. For VPS customers, it's a 99.99% uptime SLA and includes anything that causes interruptions in the host server's services.

I do not have any IPs for CME/Globex.

We do not have any standard offering for hardware load balancers and this would not be something you could use with at VPS in any case. We can provide managed support for load balancing based on LVS or InterWorx-CP clustering using LVS. We offer a shared hardware firewall that can be used with dedicated servers, as well as dedicated Cisco ASA 5505 hardware firewalls as well. I would recommend contacting our sales department for a quote if you want to price out a load balancing solution or firewall setup.