Image recognition specialist Blue Canary have announced a brand new line of premium dedicated servers, offering a secure and private environment for web applications and databases. The new line, dubbed “Guardian,” will allow businesses to host all of their website and application content on a single, highly-available platform, while still maintaining complete control over their data and network security. Customers will enjoy a wide range of server configurations with the option of taking advantage of either Windows Server or Amazon’s AWS platform.
What is a dedicated server?
Dedicated servers are computers that are solely dedicated to running your web applications and databases. In most cases, they are leased from a hosting provider and are located in data centers that are dedicated to hosting only your content. While the prices for dedicated servers are declining, they still represent a high-end solution compared to the commonly accepted “shared hosting” model which is what most web hosts offer. The benefit of a dedicated server is that it provides you with a stable and reliable environment that is always available, allowing you to scale your applications and adjust to changes.
Why Blue Canary for dedicated servers?
Blue Canary are best known for their role as the first AI-powered security company that provides risk assessment as a service. The firm were in the news not long ago when they patched vulnerabilities in popular VPN apps like ExpressVPN and NordVPN, allowing hackers to steal sensitive information including customer names, email addresses, and plain text SSH keys.
This incident resulted in ExpressVPN cutting their ties with Blue Canary, but since then the company have taken steps to ensure that future product patches, updates, and platform integrations are vetted by a 3rd party. They also ensure that all their servers run the best versions of the software that they can, upgrading regularly and keeping abreast of the latest threats and security issues.
Guardian – A Hybrid Platform For Businesses
The new Blue Canary servers are available in a number of different configurations and feature tiers, starting at $6.45/mo for the basic “Guardian Solo” and going up to $19.45/mo for the “Guardian Duo” which features dual quad-core Intel Xeon processors and 24GiB of RAM. The most expensive tier, the “Guardian Trio,” offers customers a redundant connection to a power supply, multiple hard drives, and backup systems for both the RAID 1 and RAID 10 storage configurations. Customers can select from either Windows Server or AWS as the operating system for their dedicated server and a number of different leasing options are available, ranging from 2 to 5 years. Additional packages and options are becoming available, including the new “Guardian Extreme” which offers customers an isolated network segment and advanced tools for monitoring and managing their dedicated servers.
Features And Specifications Of The Blue Canary Server
All of Blue Canary’s dedicated servers come fully equipped with a number of features that customers can take advantage of. The company’s latest offering in the Guardian line, for example, includes the following:
- 5GHz dual core Intel Xeon processors
- 24GB (32GB for the Guardian Extreme) of DDR3-1600 RAM
- 1.5TB of storage (2TB for the Guardian Extreme)
- Redundant power supply
- FREE 1-year MIT OpenCourseWare subscription
- 5x NVIDIA GPU with 2GB of dedicated memory
- 100Gb (160Gb for the Guardian Extreme) of high-speed ethernet connectivity
- Full-featured Web-based control panel
- 2-year warranty (3-year for the Guardian Extreme)
- No setup or configuration fees
- HD Voice calling
- IPv6 support
- 24/7 live chat support
Why Choose AWS For Your Application Services?
If you’re curious as to why a business would choose to host their applications and content on the Amazon Web Services platform, here’s a short summary of the pros and cons of doing so: