ROUBAIX, France, February 24 /PRNewswire/ --     OVH, the leading French hosting service, is launching a top of the 
range system designed for professionals with key requirements in terms of 
resources, performance and also service-sharing. Covering a wide range of 
prices, and corresponding services, the HG range consists of the ultimate 
in customized servers to meet company requirements.

Meeting customers' most critical needs

In marketing its new range, OVH is innovating yet again, as the HG 2009 
consists of fully-customizable servers. 
This means that customers can customize the configuration of their servers:

- RAM size: 16 or 32 Gb of FBDIMM 
    - the type of hard drive required (1Tb SAS, 300Gb SAS 15000 rpm RAID, 
      even ultra-fast 32 Gb Intel drives in SSD technology). 
    - As an option: further drives enabling the addition of up to 6 drives 
      in total to the server, depending on requirements 
    - A specific operating system selected from the wide range offered 
    - Option: technical support (technical help-line)

The HG servers are products incorporated by OVH using only components 
and infrastructures of internationally recognized labels and brands: Intel, 
Kingston, Seagate, Supermicro, Cisco, Infinera, LSI.

Security, high availability and high performance

HG servers are all equipped with two Intel Xeon processors, providing 8 
cores that can be used in parallel. These processors also support 
virtualization. A choice of distribution methods means that a range of 
virtual servers can be accessed in a few clicks.

The machine drives use SAS technology or also SSD.

In addition, the HG 2009 range has a guarantee of reinstatement and 
response within a maximum of 30 minutes. Incident support is available 
round the clock with commercial and technical advice offered 6 days in 7.

The network infrastructure and overall electrical system is fully 
redundant.

With regard to cost, the HG 2009 range starts at 299 Euros excl. tax 
per month, with 8 cores rated at 2.33 GHz, 16 Gb of RAM, LSI RAID-1 2x1Tb 
SAS and 2x1Gbps of switchport with 100Mbps of SLA Premium.

Various bandwidth options are offered to suit customer requirements:

- SLA Premium 100Mbps/client 
    - SLA Business 100Mbps/server 
    - SLA Business 200Mbps/server 
    - SLA Business 300Mbps/server 
    - SLA Business VIP 1Gbp/server.

It is important to note that HG servers offer total reliability, as 
demonstrated by the fact that OVH uses these same servers for its entire 
shared infrastructure, its Real Private Server (RPS) base, and its internal 
back-up solutions. Almost 1700 servers of this type are maintained and in 
operation in the OVH data centres to meet its own needs.

This broad usage base thus enables OVH customers to profit from cost 
benefits.

About OVH

OVH, an independent French company based in Roubaix, was set up in 1999 
by Octave Klaba. It is the leading hosting service in France and is 
Europe's third largest hosting service (source: Netcraft).

Its key asset is a quality / price ratio that is unrivalled elsewhere 
on the market, making it the point of reference for Internet players.

Offering so many technological advantages, such as an exclusive server 
cooling system, OVH has always promoted innovation and performance, whilst 
respecting ecological and environmental concerns.

Not only does OVH host a large number of radio services and the main 
games server networks, it has also recently set itself a new challenge in 
the telephony sector.

With a sound foothold in the world market, OVH is now extending its 
knowhow in Europe and far beyond with around ten or so subsidiaries already 
in place and others planned for the future.

Visit our website http://www.ovh.com

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