Extility is a utility computing platform, allowing hosting providers to offer their customers virtual dedicated servers through a self-service portal.
Offer a flexible service to your customers
- Bill per month, or bill per hour: it’s your choice
- Allow your customers to self-provision their servers through a web-based portal
- Your customer can choose from a wide variety of operating systems and images and scale its system rapidly to meet demand
Offer your customers additional functionality
- Servers are fully manageable by the customer without intervention from your support department
- All storage is on high availability RAID systems
- Offer features not available on conventional dedicated servers, such as instant backups and appliance images
Instant provisioning
- Gain a competitive edge
- Generate earlier cash flow
Reduce capital costs
- Increase utilisation of compute resources
- Buy fewer larger identical units
Reduce power costs
- Server consolidation gives lower power cost per CPU cycle
- Reduce power use on idle machines
Reduce support costs
- No manual intervention in provisioning
- Reduce inventory management overhead
- Offer differentiated products on homogenous hardware
- Retain your existing managed hosting stack
- Low platform management requirements
- Automated recovery from hardware failure
Consolidate existing servers onto the platform
- The above benefits are available for internal servers too
- Ideal for test and lab servers
- Move existing customers or internal servers to Extility using P2V technology
- Ideal to simplify integration after acquisitions
Vendor independence
- Leverage your existing vendor relationships to provide the hardware for the platform.
- Use any compute node vendor
- Use any OS vendor
- Use any appliance image vendor
- Use an approved storage vendor