A cloud server is like a regular server, only it is a virtual machine located in a cloud infrastructure. A cloud server offers advantages such as infinite scalability, as well as unbeatable availability, performance and price.

The cloud server model is a leading server solution for a broad a diversity of computing resources. From startup development to enterprise IT, cloud server models provide computing power that is immediate, requires no upfront investment, and carries no long-term commitment. A cloud server’s other main benefits are:

• Server set-up in less than 1 minute
• Instant scaling up or down as required
• 99.95% uptime guaranteed
• No hardware maintenance
• Low total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Simple backup and monitoring
• Unbeatable pricing

The ESS cloud infrastructure is distributed across several global, state-of-the-art, purpose-built data centers; located in North America (Toronto, Canada. New York, NY, Dallas, TX, Santa Clara, CA), Europe (Amsterdam,Frankfurt, London), Asia (Hong Kong) and the Middle East (Israel). You can launch a new server from any of these locations instantly, running Windows or Linux (we support any version and any edition available in the market - please see our marketplace for more details).

Instant Scaling

Our cloud servers can be self-provisioned and self-configured, using a simple management portal or API, to suit your changing requirements. With ESS, server capacity can be increased or decreased in minutes. Hardware components such as CPU, RAM, disk storage, load balancers, firewalls and much more, can be added or taken away instantly, simply by logging into the cloud management console and clicking on the desired option. You can even launch a brand new cloud server from a copy of your existing server, effectively cloning your original server - to the same data center, or to another location.

We charge only according to what you use, which means that you don’t have to increase your whole server package as you grow and pay for resources you don’t need. You simply pay for the extra features you add, by the minute. Inversely, if you no longer need a product or wish to decrease your server capacity, you merely log in to your management console and make the required changes, which will be instantly reflected in your invoicing.

99.95% Uptime Guaranteed

Cloud servers offer extraordinarily high reliability and availability compared to traditional computing infrastructures. Thanks to ESS’s purpose-built, globally distributed data centers incorporating the latest technologies, servers are kept stable and available at all times, under virtually any conditions.

Every component has at least N+1 redundancy resilience, which is a parallel backup device that will automatically be deployed in the event of a component failure. This means that any hardware failure in any power supply unit, hard disk drive, power phase, UPS, memory or CPU will automatically switch to an alternative device, without you having to worry about the configuration required to make it all work. Resiliency of the mains power supply is similarly maintained with backup generators.

No Hardware Worries

A cloud server releases you from having to worry about the management and maintenance of computing hardware. It gives you complete control over your hardware configuration, with the ability to add servers or communications hardware (such as load balancers and firewalls) and achieve immediate and unlimited scaling. You can view and manage your cloud server just like any other bare metal server, minus the headaches.

Low Total Cost of Ownership

One of the main advantages of using a cloud infrastructure is its affordability. Several factors combine to make ESS's cloud infrastructure the most inexpensive server solution available.

1. Scale: The size and sophistication of our data centers allows us to maximize resource efficiency such as monitoring and administration personnel, electrical power for the servers and air conditioning, and maintaining fast broadband communication channels. Improving efficiency translates to operating our servers at a lower cost, and this advantage can then be passed on to our customers.
2. Modularity: The virtual nature of the cloud server means that you don’t have to pay for any resources you don’t need. Your package is totally modular and self defined so that you are not stuck with any unwanted resources, just the exact hardware and software components that you require as and when you need them.
3. Pay by the minute: ESS believes that it is wrong to charge by the day or month for something that takes a few minutes, such as a system check. At ESS, we charge by the minute to ensure we deliver the best value service to our customers.

ESS - You are in Control

ESS cloud servers give you absolute freedom to configure, scale up or down and add new components as required:

• Assign roles to administrators or users
• Root/administrator access to your servers
• Instant server configuration changes
• Add servers as and when required
• Remove servers without paying a penalty
• Through our proprietary API, you can setup servers and all other resources on-the-fly without being present
• Stop and restart your servers at any time
• Add databases of your choice (as many as you want)
• Choose your IP allocation
• Complete control over subnet and private VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network)
• Unlimited storage

Server Configuration

ESS’s cloud servers can be launched with a wide range of different specifications:

• From 1 to 104 vCPU
• From 256MB to 512GB of RAM
• From 5GB Storage to tens of terabytes of block storage

Due to the virtualized nature of ESS’s cloud computing infrastructure, specifications are completely flexible, allowing you to launch a cloud server that suits your precise requirements. For example, if you require 8 processors, 2GB RAM and 20GB of disk storage, you can provision a server with those exact resources for as long as you need them, and change the configuration at any time.

Operating Systems

ESS’s infrastructure allows you to install, reinstall and upgrade to any operating system you wish. The following operating systems images are available in all versions (latest and previous versions) and editions:

Microsoft Windows Server All Versions, All Editions
Ubuntu
CentOS
Debian
FreeBSD
Gentoo
OpenSUSE
Internal Network Communication:

The ESS cloud is constructed from clusters of servers, each connected to a virtual backbone at 10Gbit/sec. This effectively gives the cloud unlimited bandwidth for communication between your servers and the internet.

ESS’s control panel allows you to manage your own virtual layer 2 network. You can add up to 4 x ethernet NIC’s (network cards) to your server, each connecting to the same or different VLAN and IP subnet. The network can be configured in the same way as you would configure bare-metal cabling NIC’s and switches.

Geolocation Infrastructure

ESS operates 13 global data centers, located in:

• North America: United States, New York, New York
• North America: United States, Texas, Dallas
• North America: United States, California, Santa Clara
• North America: Canada, Toronto
• Europe: The Netherlands, Amsterdam
• Europe: Germany, Frankfurt
• Europe: United Kingdom, London
• Asia: Hong Kong
• Middle East: Israel, Petach Tikva
• Middle East: Israel, Rosh Haayin
• Middle East: Israel, Rosh Haayin (2)
• Middle East: Israel, Tel Aviv
• Middle East: Israel, Jerusalem

ESS offers state of the art Intel Platinum 8270 processors and lets you choose the type of CPU which will fit your unique cloud server requirements.

Type A - Availability – Server CPUs are assigned to a non-dedicated physical CPU thread with no resources guaranteed.
Server configuration is available from 1 vCPU up to 32 vCPUs per server and from 1GB RAM up to 128GB RAM per server.
Ideal for variety of general purpose application like : micro-services, small-medium application, development environment, container services or any server use that does not require guaranteed CPU resources.

Starts at as low as $0.00054/hour or $4/month.

Type B - General Purpose – Server CPUs are assigned to a dedicated physical CPU Thread with reserved resources guaranteed.
Server configuration is available from 1 vCPU up to 104 vCPUs per server and from 1GB RAM up to 512GB RAM per server.
Ideal for all general purpose scenarios of production-use such as application server, web server, database server, container node, storage server, HPC, etc.

Starts at as low as $0.0123/hour or $9/month.

Type T - Burstable – Server CPUs are assigned to a dedicated physical CPU thread with reserved resources guaranteed.
Exceeding an average CPU usage of 10% will be extra charged for CPUs usage consumption.
Server configuration is available from 1 vCPU up to 104 vCPUs per server and from 1GB RAM up to 512GB RAM per server.
Ideal for all general purpose scenarios of production-use such as application server, remote desktop server, web server, storage server, etc. and when CPU usage requirements are burstable during a small period of the time used.
Starts at as low as $0.0123/hour + $0.041/hour/CPU (Charged only if exceeding an average of 10% of CPU Usage)

Calculation example:

Server configuration of 8 vCPUs, 8GB RAM and 50GB Storage will cost $0.0931/hour ($68 for 730 hours) when Powered On and $0.0102/hour ($7.5 for 730 hours) when Powered Off.
If the server is Powered On for the whole month (730 hours) and the average CPU Usage of 730 hours is 7% - the server will cost $0.0931 x 730 hours = $67.963.
If the server is Powered On for the whole month (730 hours) and the average CPU Usage of 730 hours is 20% - the server will cost $0.0931 x 730 hours + $0.041 x 730 hours x 8 vCPUs x 0.10 percent = $67.963 + $23.944 = $91.907.

Type D - Dedicated – Server CPU are assigned to a dedicated physical CPU Core (2 threads) with reserved resources guaranteed.
Server configuration is available from 1 vCPU up to 40 vCPUs per server and from 1GB RAM up to 512GB RAM per server.
For all general purpose scenarios of production-use such as application server, web server, database servers, container node, storage server, HPC, etc.
Starts at as low as $0.026/hour or $19/month.

1.  Sign up for a 30 day free trial: The first step is to open a free, no-commitment account on ESS. 

A new account comes with a service credit for a small cloud server of up to 100$/month (according to the configuration you choose), 1000GB Storage and 1000GB Traffic.

2.  Set up a cloud server: In order to set up a server, you must access the Cloud Web Management Portal. This is a user-friendly management console that controls all your cloud server infrastructure components. Use the portal to launch a new cloud server according to your choice of: data center, operating system, CPU, RAM, storage and other system preferences. It’s that easy. If you want another server, just repeat the process.

3.  Make configuration changes as desired: Once you have launched your server, you can make configuration changes at any time.

More products and services are available in the Cloud Web management Portal and are available to be launched instantly with the free trial account.