mediatemple Reveals New (dpv) Nitro Server
Posted by Jon Lee in Web Development, tags: dedicated-hosting, mediatemple, nitro, web development
Earlier today, my favorite web host, mediatemple, has come out with their newest server package. It’s called (dpv) Nitro and is a very high end package — definitely not for average Internet blog owner. Coming in at $750 per month, you better have a damn good reason for getting it! (As low as $575/month after applying mediatemple coupon).
Overview of (dpv) Nitro
(dpv) stands for Dedicated Physical Virtual Server which sounds like a contradiction — is it physical or virtual?? What this actually means, is that you are on a dedicated server (by yourself of course, not shared) which is the “physical” part but you are running on a virtualized layer.
The benefit to this is you can have full control over your entire server without having physical access to it. You can pretty much control the machine from the Virtuozzo control panel. (Virtuozzo is the software they use to manage the virtual layer). Also, this layer of virtualization lets mediatemple implement a slew of features for you, some of which would otherwise be unavailable:
- Faster support and increased diagnostic capabilities by (mt) Media Temple support technicians
- Web-based remote start/stop/reboot capabilities
- Granular resource monitoring
- Service monitoring with customizable notifications
- Rescue/emergency maintenance mode functionality
- Detailed bandwidth reporting
- Network spike protection
- (mt) Media Temple managed kernel upgrades
If you would rather not use the virtualized layer but use (dpv) Nitro as a beast of a dedicated server, you can do that as well.
Specifications
This thing really is top of the line. As of writing (July 2007), the estimated price for this server is close to $7,000. Check out these specs:
- HP Proliant Server
- Quad Core Woodcrest Xeon 2.33 Ghz
- 4 GB Fully Buffered DDR-2 RAM
- 2x 300GB 15,000 RPM hard drives (Reducing a server’s biggest bottleneck)
- 350 io/sec
- Fully Redundant RAID-1
- Battery-backed write-cache enabler
- 1GB Network switch
Other features
- Snapshot Backups
Like Mac OS X’s Time Machine or Vista’s Shadow Copy, this lets you create entire images of your server status so you can restore to any previous version with a click of the mouse. - Load Balancing
You can purchase multiple (dpv) servers and stack them to multiply your server power. Unless you’re getting thousands of hits a second, you’ll probably never take advantage of this feature but hey, it’s better to be prepared. - Plesk
You get a full unlimited domain Plesk license with this. Plesk is the leading control panel software for hosting. With this you can pretty much start up your very own web hosting company without having to worry about server maintenance and managing a data center. $750 a month will quickly become pocket change if you resell your hosting effectively. - mediatemple support
Of course, you get top notch mediatemple support which includes technical support staff that is not only friendly but knowledgeable as well.
Start Small
If you have a brilliant idea for a website to sell to Google but you haven’t created it yet, obviously you won’t jump straight to a (dpv) Nitro server. You can start small with the Grid server, then move to a dedicated virtual server and work your way up to a Nitro server. Each upgrade is seemless since everything is virtualized. Just order the package from mediatemple and within a couple minutes all your files will be on a new server.
If anyone decides to purchase this Nitro package, please please please let me know what your experience is (don’t forget to apply the mediatemple coupon as well). Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be trying it out any time soon but if I do, you can expect a very comprehensive review of it.
Sorry if this sounds like a sponsored advertisement–I assure you it’s not. I just love their hosting that much! After having tried many other hosting companies that all disappointed me in some way or another, I now recommend mediatemple to everyone that asks!
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