Infrastructure
We constantly extend our infrastructure to give you the highest reliability and ensure the best performance.
We love SSD! All of our hosting plans run on super fast Intel SSD DC / Solidigm D7 Series - the enterprise grade SSDs from Intel/Solidigm, which have performed great in all tests. These SSDs offer 1,000,000 IOPS with read access speeds of 6,700 MB/s and write access speeds of 3,600 MB/s. In combination with the new NVMe controllers we reach one of the best I/O performance currently available on the market.
We employ high-end enterprise grade hardware for all of our servers and take care that they are never overloaded.
Onlime GmbH gives your web application wings and lets it fly high!
Data Center
We operate our servers in the data center of METANET in Zurich, Switzerland. METANET has been proven as an extremely reliable housing partner. METANET provides us a fully redundant network and – as a RIPE-member under AS21069 – operates its own multi-10-gigabit-network.
Upon failure of a Cisco router the whole traffic is within a very short time completely taken over by the other; the same applies to the backbone connections. Additionally, METANET has direct connections to Cablecom, SWITCH, Google, and more than 30 other Swiss internet and content providers to provide their customers with the best access times. The remaining traffic runs over the two upstreams Interoute and Level3.
We operate our backup server infrastructure in the data center of the Nine, also located in Zurich. The infrastructure is installed in our own lockable quarter-rack in a highly secured colocation.
100% Switzerland! All servers are located in Switzerland, without exception.
Our Server Configuration
To be honest, we don't have to hide our system configuration. For the tech guys among you - This is the current specification of our web server:
| Model | 1HE AMD Single-CPU Supermicro AS -1115CS-TNR |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD EPYC 9634 84-Core 2,25GHz |
| Memory | 512 GB DDR5 4800MHz 2Rx4 ECC RDIMM |
| Disk | RAIDZ (ZFS RAID-5), 4 x 3.2TB Intel SSD D7-P5620 NVMe |
| Network | 1 Gbit/s redundant |
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| Model | 1HE AMD Single-CPU SuperMicro RA1104H |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core 2,25GHz |
| Memory | 512 GB 2666MHz RDIMM DDR4 ECC Reg 4 Rank |
| Disk | RAIDZ (ZFS RAID-5), 4 x 1.6TB Intel SSD DC S3610 |
| Network | 1 Gbit/s redundant |
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RAID
All SSDs run in a RAID-1 respectively RAID-10 mirroring setup. If one SSD fails, the server continues to run undisturbed and the defective SSD can hot-swapped. -
Failover
For each physical production server, we run an additional fallback server with similar hardware equipment, which in an emergency situation can take over at any time. For replication, we use ZFS snapshots. -
Off-site Backup
Our backup servers are operated in the colocation at Nine in Zurich. We create nightly full-system backups including all customer data, regardless of the hosting plan. -
Offline Backup
In addition to the off-site backups we transfer all data to encrypted external drives on a weekly basis. These drives are stored each physically disconnected (offline). -
Encryption
All data transfers, both inside the internal network of Onlime GmbH and to our external datacenter (off-site backup) is secured by encrypted connections.
Green IT
Onlime exclusively draws "naturemade star"-certified green electricity from EWZ (Elektrizitätswerke der Stadt Zürich). By choosing ewz.ökopower Onlime promotes the renewal and the construction of hydroelectric power plants to the highest ecological criteria. Also, the purchase of ewz.ökopower promotes the construction of additional solar power plants.
+ 1000% carbon compensation
In addition, we offset our entire carbon footprint tenfold, every year!
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