Tailor-Made Virtual Servers

Scalability and Flexibility with ProfitBricks virtual hosting cloud servers

Unlike traditional virtual server (VPS) providers, ProfitBricks allows you to fully-modify the three essential configuration points including CPU cores, RAM and disk space (storage) according to your specific needs and requirements. This allows you to customize each ProfitBricks virtual server to your specific need, achieving optimum resources at an ideal price. Since resource requirements constantly change, you can adjust the performance of your virtual ProfitBricks servers at any time. For example, using our API, you can automate these adjustments to correspond to your service, depending on the workload. Billing is minute-based.

In detail, we offer the following technical options:

• CPU
  Up to 62* real Cores per server
• RAM
  Memory capacity up to 240* GB RAM
• Storage
  Up to 16 virtual drives (Up to 16 TB each)
• Ports
  Unlimited network ports to servers, firewalls and load balancers
• Internet
  Internet connectivity with 4 x 10 GBit/s
• Speed
  Up to 80 GBit/s (based on InfiniBand)

*Instance size above 48 cores and 196GB RAM can only be set up by request by ProfitBricks customer care.

Hardware exclusivity guaranteed

ProfitBricks guarantees the exclusive use of your configured hardware. The hardware configuration you select will be reserved for your exclusive use and not shared with other customers. The CPU cores and RAM you configure are not shared among multiple customers or servers. Your virtual server performance is guaranteed to remain consistent.

Core ≠ Core

What you need to know:

A "Core" is not an independently defined unit that can be directly compared between different cloud providers. In fact a "Core" can refer to various different processor generations and, as such, differs with regard to various performance factors.

ProfitBricks has developed the unit "ProfitBricks Compute Unit (PCU)" as a means to compare current and future performance. A PCU equates approximately to the computing power found in a 1.0-1.2 GHz Opteron or Xeon processor from 2007 or a 1.7 GHz Xeon processor from the beginning of 2006. For example, one current ProfitBricks core has the power of 4 PCUs.

If you are unsure of your requirements, we suggest you test the speed of "Cores" from various providers in production. In addition to Core speed, many other factors such as the speed of disks and the IO performance often have a major impact on the performance of your application. To learn more about the performance of ProfitBricks virtual servers compared to the competition, read this 3rd party report available here.

ProfitBricks offers you the ideal testing opportunity.
Feel free to contact us - we will be happy to advise you.