Dedicated Servers

LuxSci recommends Business Class servers as the best combination of price, performance, and reliability. Ultra-reliable Enterprise Class servers are also available.

See: Enterprise vs Business Class.

	Business Class Servers	Enterprise Class Servers
Starting Price (Performance x1)	$100/mo	$375/mo
Setup fee (any flavor)	$100 one time	$300 one time
Server ready in	1-3 bus. days	0-7 bus. days*
Enterprise-class servers take more time to prepare. LuxSci keeps a number of these pre-configured and ready for finalization for new customers. If any of these are ready, then servers will be ready in 0-2 days. If we have had a significant influx of enterprise-class server orders, then we may be backlogged in server setup. In that case, it could take up to 7 business days. Ask your Sales rep about our current provisioning time line.
Disk Subsystem: Fast & Redundant	SSD RAID	SAS+SSD RAID, Private SAN
Disk Space Upgrades	$7.50/mo per 10GB	$10.00/mo per 10GB
Full-disk encryption?	Available*
Enterprise Class Servers All disks (operating system and data) are encrypted at the storage array level. This protects if the disks are somehow stolen and when the disks are decommissioned. Business Class Servers The default "included" system disk on Business Class Servers cannot be encrypted. To have full-disk encryption, you need to order more than the "included" disk space (so that you get a separate data drive) and request that the data drive be encrypted. This option protects the data should the underlying media be stolen from the data center, when the underlying storage is reused or decommissioned, and should the media be somehow accessed from a location outside of your running server. Full-disk encryption does really affect the performance of the drive (it will be marginally slower than otherwise) and it does not protect the data from access via users or processes running in the server itself (e.g. malicious software injected into your web site or a malicious hacker that has penetrated your server).

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	Feature
Server Provider	Rackspace
Contract Term	2 months
Backups	included up to 500 GB
Custom Backup Schedules?
Redundant HA Networking
Intrusion Detection System
LuxSci Proactive Server Monitoring
LuxSci uses proprietary software to monitor its dedicated servers to ensure their uptime and proper function. This includes, but is not limited to: Port checking to monitor server and application uptime and to alert on any issues Automated server health monitoring to alert on and auto-remedy many common problems that may arise on a server, such as a denial of service attack, perceived abuse, etc.
Account Firewall
Software Firewall on Server
Redundant HA Hardware Firewalls
Optional VPN Access

Compare Server Performance Level Choices

LuxSci offers four levels of Dedicated Servers in both the Business and Enterprise Classes. You can choose the one right for your size, needs, and budget. More powerful servers are also available ... contact Sales for details.

Business Class Servers

	Performance x1	Performance x2	Performance x4	Performance x8
Description	Entry Level	Recommended	High Performance	Turbo Performance
Starting Price	$100/mo	$200/mo	$350/mo	$550/mo
Disk Space Included	10G	30G	70G	150G
Relative Power	100%	200%	400%	800%
CPU Cores / GB Ram	1 CPU / 1 GB	2 CPU / 2GB	4 CPU / 4GB	8 CPU / 8GB

Enterprise Class Servers

	Performance x1	Performance x2	Performance x4	Performance x8
Description	Entry Level	Recommended	High Performance	Turbo Performance
Starting Price: Enterprise	$375/mo	$500/mo	$725/mo	$1175/mo
Disk Space Included	10G	30G	70G	150G
Relative Power	200%	400%	800%	1600%
CPU Cores / GB Ram	1 CPU/ 4 GB	2 CPU / 8 GB	4 CPU / 16 GB	8 CPU / 32 GB

With a Dedicated Server, you have to purchase one or more "users." The price for a user starts at $1/mo and varies based on which service bundle is chosen. The "starting price" for a dedicated server assumes the purchase of one user for $1/mo.

Choosing the Performance Level

What Performance Level is best for you? You can use the table, below, to see what Performance Levels work for what particular needs. If you want to do multiple things (e.g. 50 power email users plus a low traffic web site), we recommend going up to the next size Performance Level (Performance x2 in this example) as the "minimum" recommended for just one of these may have degraded performance when you do two or more. If you just want better performance or room to grow quickly and easily, choose a larger Performance Level.

Based on number of users for business email

	Performance x1	Performance x2	Performance x4	Performance x8
Up to 50 Users
Up to 1,000 Users
Up to 5,000 Users
Up to 10,000 Users

For dedicated web site & MySQL database hosting

	1 GB Ram	2+ GB Ram	Performance x4	Performance x8
Anti-virus scanning
Very low traffic/static
PHP
MySQL databases
Moderate traffic
High traffic
Low traffic and compute intensive
Moderate traffic and compute intensive

For SecureForm processing or WebMail running on your own server

	1 GB Ram	2+ GB Ram	Performance x4	Performance x8
Dedicated

For dedicated inbound email filtering and processing

	1 GB Ram	2GB+ Ram	Performance x4	Performance x8
Low email traffic
Medium email traffic
High email traffic