Quick Facts

  • Our cloud servers are located in TelstraClear's Auckland data centre.

  • The facility is staffed 24/7.

  • We own and operate all of the equipment.

IT JUST WORKS

Our technology is so advanced we hardly have to think about it.

Instead of arriving at work and playing with servers and networks, we focus on understanding your needs and how we can help you.


Frameworks / cms

Swizzle cloud servers support a wide range of web application frameworks and content management systems. If you don't see the one you want below, please ask so we can add it.

  • Cake
  • Django
  • Drupal
  • Joomla!
  • Microsoft .NET
  • Silverstripe
  • Zend
  • Zope

Virtual Machines

With the magic of VMware vSphere, your servers can start small and grow to very large. Storage increases can be completed online without a break. Processor and memory upgrades require a quick restart.

Resource Range
Processor 1,2,4,8
Memory 512MB - 16GB
Storage 20GB - 1TB
Operating System Windows Server 2008 R2 (all 64 bit editions)
Ubuntu Server 10.04
Debian 5.0

Virtual Network

We use VLAN technology to seperate your network traffic from other customers. Our core network has no single points of failure, and we purchase Internet connectivity from multiple upstream providers.

Resource Description
Public Network /29 - /26 (3 to 59 useable addresses)
DMZ & Private Networks Supported with optional security appliance
International Transit Vocus and TelstraClear
National Transit TelstraClear - Dual fibre
National Peering Citylink - Auckland Peering Exchange
Content Distribution Citylink - Harmony

VIRTUAL APPLIANCES

Swizzle deploys Astaro security appliances running on VMware vSphere. HTTP accelerator appliances running Varnish are also avaliable.
You don't share these toys with other Swizzle customers.

Feature Benefit
Dedicated Firewall Your corporate clients don't like to share
Intrusion Prevention Automatically updated to provide maximum protection
DoS Protection Automatically reduces impact of denial of service attacks
VPN Tunnels Allows upload and download of confidential data
Load balancing Multiple web servers can support major campaigns
HTTP Accelerator Makes well written sites fly and poor ones perform better