Choosing the best Reserved Cloud Server for your needs

The Reserved Cloud Server is your own fully managed, SSD-powered private Cloud Server with resources that are dedicated exclusively to your sites. There are several reasons that a Reserved Cloud Server might be right for you:

– If you run a mission-critical website and can’t run the risk of performance issues caused by other sites on a shared instance.

– If your site uses memory-intensive applications. When an application uses more than 500 MB of memory on our shared instances, the application is recycled, causing an unnecessary restart.

– If you do not want your site to timeout due to inactivity (no visit within 30 minutes). That inactivity threshold is not present on Reserved Cloud Servers.

– If your site has high CPU requirements, on a shared instance the CPU priority could be lowered for your site. On a Reserved Cloud Server, that will never happen.

 

Want some hard data about the performance of our Reserved Cloud Servers during some extreme load testing? Check out this article by Kevin Griffin on CodeProject.

 

Reserved Cloud Servers come in three sizes, and here are our recommendations for each:

Small Reserved Cloud Server: 1 GB of memory and 1 CPU

• The Small Reserved Cloud Server is good if your application doesn’t use more than 250 MB of memory (you can see your application’s memory usage in Control Panel)
• If your application’s CPU usage is high (more than 5 minute of CPU time in an hour), you should consider a Medium or Large Reserved Cloud Server.
• Due to the limited amount of memory, we do not recommend Small Reserved Cloud Servers for Multi Domain Cloud.

Medium Reserved Cloud Server: 2 GB of memory and 2 CPUs

• The Medium Reserved Cloud Server is ideal for most applications.
• Though again, you’ll want to check the CPU/Memory usage on your application to make sure 2 BG of memory memory is enough.
• If you use Multi Domain Cloud we recommend this size if the total memory usage for all your applications is less than 1.4 GB.

Large Reserved Cloud Server: 4 GB of memory and 4 CPUs

• The Large Reserved Cloud Server was made for customers who want the most CPU power and memory. It is ideal for Multi Domain Clouds that have 20 or more sites.

Still have questions? We can help you assess which Reserved Cloud Server size is best for you. If you’re already an Everleap customer, just open up a support ticket. Not an Everleap customer yet? Drop us a line here.