Dedicated Server PODs
LuxSci can set up a dedicated server "POD" for you. A "POD" is an
outsourced set of servers that are dedicated to your organization and
which operate independently of LuxSci's normal servers and of all of
LuxSci's other clients. Full support is included with a POD.
With your own POD, you have the ability to scale to any size and to
have an infrastructure that is completely customized and branded for
you.
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Do you need a POD?
You may need a POD if your organization requires extensive outsourced
services that include:
- You are large.
Very large numbers of users (50,000+).
- A large amount of disk space.
I.e. Terabytes or a Storage Area Network
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No Use of Shared Servers:
I.e. use all your own WebMail, Email, Database, Web, and other servers instead of
shared ones.
- You have special redundancy and failover requirements.
- You require special software or hardware.
- You require LuxSci's service level agreements for
dedicated servers.
- A Special Location for Your Servers
I.e. Dallas Texas, San Antonio Texas, or London
Pricing & Ordering
Prices start depend on the numbers and kinds of servers that you will
need in your POD. Usually, PODs cost $5,000 to $10,000/mo or more. A
one-year minimum contract is also required.
To obtain a price quote, use our Quote Request Form.
We will help you determine what server configuration is most appropriate
for your goals.
If you don't need an entire POD, perhaps you would be interested in
just a dedicated email
server?
LuxSci Dedicated Server PODs Provide
Each POD client receives a package customized to their requirements.
All of the features listed here are available, but not necessarily
required. If you have additional requirements, we will try our best to
accommodate.
No explicit limits on number of users or disk space that you can
use, subject to what your server(s) can handle. You pay only based on the
number and type of dedicated servers and other services that you need.
A Complete Feature Set: You may receive all of the standard
features of our shared email services, including IMAP, POP3, SMTP,
WebMail, Email Aliases, Email Forwarding, Auto Responders, Address Books,
Calendars, Security, Xpress portal, and much more. See our standard email service offering for feature
lists and descriptions.
Complete IT Outsourcing: Our custom email and WebMail software
will be installed on a set of dedicated servers. We will manage the
administration, security, backups, upgrades, and all aspects of these
servers and the software used on them. This aspect of our service is very
similar to our managed dedicated
servers offering. You do not have to have a technical staff on hand
to manage your organization's email.
Security: For the security-conscious organization, we offer
Secure SMTP, Secure IMAP, Secure POP3, Secure WebMail and other features to
ensure the integrity and privacy of your email. All servers are secured
by firewalls and access is restricted to essential support personnel.
Optional Spam and Virus Filtering: Our services can be combined
with our web-configurable premium anti-Spam and anti-Virus filtering
services. See our Email
Defense service. Alternately, you could employ our basic filtering
services on your dedicated servers.
Private Labeled: We can provide a Private Labeled WebMail
interface for your users. This interface can look like your existing web
site(s) and fit seamlessly into your existing infrastructure. Read more
about our private labeled WebMail
services.
International & Multi-lingual: Our WebMail application is
Internationalized. It supports user-level customization of time zone,
date and time display formats, and language. We currently support many
languages, such as English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Russian, Ukrainian, and Italian. We can easily add other languages should
you need them.
What LuxSci Will Do For You
Identify Your Needs: Based on your requirements, we will
determine what servers, software, and hardware will best suit your current
and future needs. We will develop a proposal and quote that will satisfy
your requirements in a robust and cost effective way.
Provide Customizations: We can provide support and integration
with your existing infrastructure by customizing our application and
working with your technicians to provide a seamless coexistence with your
organization. Some common customizations include:
Unified Login: You have an existing web site for your users and
you want to provide email services to them. You would like them to login
to your web site and then be able to access their email without
re-authenticating. We have several ways of providing this capability.
User Synchronization: You have an existing web site and database
of users. You want to manage the addition, deletion, and editing of these
users from your web site and not ours. We have several ways of
implementing this database synchronization; for example, XML messages
passed from your site to ours indicating any change.
Private Labeled WebMail: Our WebMail services are quite
flexible. We will help you customize them for maximum integration with
your current web site or for the best representation of your
requirements.
POD Infrastructure
Your servers will be located in the Rackspace data center in your
choice of San Antonio, Texas; Dallas, Texas; or London, England.
Security: Stateful packet-filtering firewalls are standard on
all servers. We can also provide separate Cisco firewalls and intrusion
detection systems for maximum security.
Privacy: Your servers will have a high-speed private network so
that all inter-server communication is secure and fast.
Backups: LuxSci can provide several different levels of backup,
depending on your requirements. These include: nightly disk mirroring,
tape backups, off-site disk mirroring, and off-site tape backup rotations.
Load Balancing: If you have a lot of users or require
redundancy, we provide fail-over load balancing via additional servers,
fail-over load balancers, and a fast storage area network.
Network: Our state-of-the-art network is fully switched using
Cisco network gear and is engineered with full redundancy to ensure there
is no single point of failure. The network is multi-homed with DS3 to OC12
connections through AT&T, UUnet, Qwest, Time Warner Telecom, and SBC,
providing fast, reliable connectivity.
Conditioned Power: Power systems in the data centers are
designed to run uninterrupted even in the unlikely event of a total power
outage. All servers are fed with conditioned UPS (Uninterpretable Power
Supply) power that will run if utility power fails. The UPS power
subsystem is N+1 redundant with instantaneous fail-over in case the
primary UPS fails. In the event of an extended power outage, an on-site
diesel generator can run indefinitely.
Responsive Support
Pro-active monitoring: we will monitor your servers 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week. Our experienced technicians will automatically fix any
problems that occur. If you notice any problems with the servers, you can
contact our support number at any time.
For standard support questions and concerns, our support staff is
available via email and via our online support ticketing system. For
emergencies, you can contact us via our 800 number 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. We pride ourselves on our customer relations. Read some of our client testimonials.
We provide detailed help and solutions for the use of our services and
software to your technical staff and your users. We will also provide you
with and install upgrades to our software and operating system patches as
they become available.
Service Level Agreement (SLA)
We provide the following guarantees on your service:
Network Connection: We guarantee that the network will be
available 100% of the time in a given month, excluding scheduled
maintenance.
Hardware: We guarantee the functioning of all hardware
components and will replace any failed component at no cost to the
customer.
Infrastructure: We guarantee that the critical infrastructure
systems, including power and HVAC, will be available 100% of the time in a
given month, excluding scheduled maintenance.
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