Hosting Talk has had the opportunity to try for all its readers a new service 1 & 1 Cloud Server, in which the well-known brand relau...
With over 14.8 million active contracts worldwide and over 19 million managed domains, 1 & 1 is one of the largest and most important Internet service provider, offered through an infrastructure of over 80,000 redundant servers in different data centers between the most efficient and secure Europe.
The company was founded in 1988 in Montabaur, Germany, and four years later was already committed to selling Web access in collaboration with BTX, the online service of Deutsche Telekom, which some years later became one of the most important European connectivity providers with the name of T-Online.
Always with T-Online, 1 & 1 contributes to the development of new technologies and Internet services as the standard kit (Core Software for Intelligent Terminals) followed by the first browser ever developed for T-Online.
In 1998, the parent company of 1 & 1, the United Internet, bids for the public purchase and the proceeds of the IPO go to further fund the development of 1 & 1, which in the meantime merged with the ISP Schlund & Partner.
Shortly after, 1 & 1 introduces Puretec, the first product dedicated hosting customers with low budget and in the meantime also proposes the GMX email service that expands quickly to count more than 15 million accounts.
The recent development of 1 & 1 to 1 & 1 Cloud Server
The 2000s are those of evolution and affirmation of the brand in Europe and beyond.
In 2000 he was presented the first Stores Online service for the design of e-commerce, it is launched the dedicated and in 2002, 1 & 1 server replaces Puretec range in 2001 with its second version which will become the current Web hosting offer.
Thus began the expansion and addition to France and the UK, 1 & 1 peeps in 2003 in the USA, arriving to cover, starting in 2011, all current countries: Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Spain, France, Poland, United States , Canada, Mexico and, of course, Italy.
In all these countries, 1 & 1 employs about 7000 people, all together, are driving a company capable of providing the right product both for private users, as to small and medium-sized businesses.
The 11 data center of the company, including 6 Europeans, four American and one Asian, are designed to promote energy saving and have a running time of almost 100 percent, despite being handled a traffic of over 9,000 TB of data transmitted and more than 5 billions of emails sent per month, on a 300 Gbps redundant network. The infrastructure of the German provider serves as a solid foundation for the extensive portfolio of services made available: hosting packages, domain registration, dedicated servers, virtual servers, cloud servers, email services.
Overview of the technical characteristics of the service 1 & 1 Cloud Server
Service 1 & 1 Cloud Server, which we have previously dedicated a hands-on divided into three episodes, was launched at the beginning of this new year in several European countries, namely Italy, Spain, UK, France and Germany. 1 & 1 Cloud Server replaces the previous offer 1 & 1 Dynamic Cloud Server (launched in 2010) and the complete, improving performance and specifications.
To the cloud server beyond itself and its free configuration depending on the requirements, the user has the opportunity to manage the firewall rules more cloud servers centrally, using a load balancer is already available in the pack, take advantage of a KVM console to access the server as if it had the hardware physically ahead and use hot-add resize function to resize the cloud server when in operation without rebooting.
To all this is added the opportunity to define a central storage archive to share via NFS or CIFS protocol, between different cloud enabled server, taking advantage of infrastructure SAN storage disks and SSD technology for cloud-based servers.
The technical features of 1 & 1 Cloud Server, such as CPU (1 to 16 vCore), RAM (1 to 128 GB) and storage space (20 to 500 GB) can be freely chosen, while as regards the operating systems it has the ability to decide between the different distributions of Linux and Windows versions.
The offer also includes a license of Parallels Plesk 12 panel, to manage the server from the point of hosting views in a professional manner, and optionally can be equipped with 1 & 1 Cloud Servers of different services such as additional public IP, SSL certificates, additional domains, and more.
The cloud server management itself, however, is assigned to a home-made panel suitable for all categories of users, even novice users, because of its ease of use; In fact, the interaction with the user takes place almost exclusively through point & click of the mouse.
Through this same panel, you can use an advanced monitoring tool and an integrated image-based backup and automation of their creation.
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From a performance point of view, the entire infrastructure is based on VMware virtualization technologies, storage is based on solid state disks and server deployment occurs in about 55 seconds from the activation request.
The extensibility of the cloud server and the opportunity to manage them from their programs in development is guaranteed by APIs made available by 1 & 1, can also be used through the portions of code (wrapper) ready to be integrated into their designs.
