phoenixNAP Review

Outstanding Data Center Colocation

phoenixNAP enables companies and organizations to build and implement high-performance IT infrastructures. This can help them seamlessly achieve digital transformation, improve their business presence and reach, deliver a better end-user experience, and reduce costs. With phoenixNAP’s data center colocation solutions and services, they can use a global network of data center facilities that provide all the technologies and resources they need for hosting, managing, and maintaining their IT environments.

The data center facilities were set up in strategic locations in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific which have high-speed internet connections and are not prone to natural disasters. The facilities also comply with GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and other data center security standards and requirements. Clients can rent available resources in the data center facilities that are required for the optimum storage and operation of their servers, systems, and applications. These resources include space, power, cooling, network, and bandwidth.

In addition, phoenixNAP implements data center technologies and capabilities that allow colocation IT environments to work under good conditions. For instance, its data center facilities can supply every server rack with power at a maximum density rate of 44 kilowatts/rack. Such high power density enhances servers’ uptime, compute capacity, and performance.

Redundant power and cooling systems are used as well. Clients can also leverage the BGP-enabled network used in each data center facility to access multiple premium carrier, transport, and telecom service providers. Thus, they’ll permit end-users from different locations to access infrastructures, services, applications, and data via network connections with high bandwidth and low latency.

Flexible, Reliable, & Cost-Effective Hosting 

phoenixNAP provides a wide array of hosting solutions optimized to solve the specific IT needs and challenges of various organizations, teams, and individuals. phoenixNAP gives clients the opportunity to deploy, run, and handle services, websites, systems, and applications on dedicated hosting servers. They can customize the dedicated servers based on their workload requirements.

They can utilize servers for RAM, storage, and bandwidth-demanding gaming and streaming workloads and compute, I/O, and memory-intensive database, big data, and AI workloads. Through dedicated server hosting, clients can control, scale, and optimize their IT environments to produce better results without incurring capital costs.

phoenixNAP supports bare-metal cloud hosting which is suitable for development and engineering teams. They can automatically provision, deploy, access, and manage single-tenant physical servers. This is possible using advanced and innovative infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, API, and SDK tools. They’re given the capability to create, test, and monitor microservices, databases, and applications on the servers and pay only for the resources they use. This way, they can spend more time and money on building high-quality applications.

Strong Cloud Security

Security is a top priority for phoenixNAP It wants clients to feel safe and confident as they use its IT solutions and services, regardless of the type and size of their business. By collaborating with leading technology partners, phoenixNAP was able to design IaaS products and services that apply multiple layers of security.

phoenixNAP leverages Intel’s technologies to automate the implementation of AES data encryption and decryption as well as zero trust security control within hardware and processors. The IaaS provider also employs network segmentation techniques through the VMware NSX network virtualization and security software.

With this, the components of an IT infrastructure are organized into different, isolated segments. When breaches or attacks occur in a particular segment, the other segments won’t be affected. phoenixNAP offers backup and recovery solutions so clients can prevent their critical data from being lost, damaged, or compromised due to various causes. These include natural disasters, intrusions, cyber attacks, and human mistakes.

They can instantly generate copies of their on-premise or cloud-based servers, operating systems, applications, databases, files, and information and transmit them to off-site locations/repositories. They’ll restore all of their data or some of it from backups. Thus, they can keep their services, systems, and data available and reduce business disruptions when unexpected events happen.

Bare Metal Cloud

Understanding the increasing need for automated IT solutions, phoenixNAP has created a robust dedicated servers platform that enables API-driven server provisioning in minutes. Bare Metal Cloud includes 30+ pre-defined server configurations that can be deployed via API, CLI, WebUI or Infrastructure as Code tools. Development teams can manage it as code using their favorite tools. By simplifying infrastructure management tasks, they can accelerate their release cycles and streamline their CI/CD pipelines.

As phoenixNAP also provides an S3-compatible Object Storage Service, Bare Metal Cloud users have easy access to it. The platform also includes an integration with SUSE Rancher, making it possible to create Kubernetes clusters in minutes.

Bare Metal Cloud is available on an hourly billing model or through a monthly reservation options. This flexibility allows users to easily scale their compute, while ensuring advanced budget optimizations. 15 TB of free bandwidth is also included with the platform.