Dedicated server package details:

Quad Processor - AMD Opteron 8350

Platform:
Operating system pre-installed on the server.
Linux
CPU:
CPU brand and type of the server.
4 x AMD Opteron 1000 12.0GHz
Disk space:
Amount of storage space available on the server.
250GB
Memory:
Available RAM size on the server.
8GB
Bandwidth:
Internet bandwidth transfer limit.
2000GB
Location:
Physical location of the data center.
USA
Setup:
One-time setup fee the hosting provider charges.
Free
Management:
Whether the hosting provider can manage the server for you.
Unmanaged
SoftLayer
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SoftLayer

Headquartered in Dallas, SoftLayer is the innovation leader in Cloud, Dedicated, and Managed Hosting, and the largest privately hosting company in the world. SoftLayer provides cloud, dedicated, and seamlessly integrated computing environments, leveraging world-class data centers in Dallas, Houston, San Jose, Seattle, and Washington D.C., Singapore and Amsterdam, and network Points of Presence around the globe. SoftLayer automates all elements of its platform, empowering customers with complete control, security, scalability, and ease-of-management via a leading Customer Portal and Open API. The company’s proprietary offerings include the industry’s first Network-Within-a-Network topology for true out-of-band access, providing remote access to all management options.
Company Info:
Company title:
The public name of the company.
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
Company description:
A short description of this company.
SoftLayer offers next generation on-demand hosting. The leader in the hardware as a service. Dual core technologies available from Intel and AMD.
Ownership:
Company ownership type.
Privately Held
Revenue:
Estimated annual revenue of this company.
$50 - 100M ($75,000,000 estimated) Ranked 6 at HostMonk
Employees:
Estimated number of employees of this company.
100 - 250 (200 estimated) Ranked 16 at HostMonk
Number of data centers:
Number of data centers this hosting provider maintains.
13
Supported product types:
Hosting package types supported by this provider.
Dedicated server, Cloud hosting
Payment options:
Available payment options supported by this provider.
Credit card, PayPal
Contacts:
Number of public contacts listed at Jigsaw.com.
148 contacts at Jigsaw
Jigsaw company details:
Description of this company available at Jigsaw.com.
In June 2005, ten principals wanted to build a technically superior hosting service for those customers continuing to evolve in their IT needs. Spending months brainstorming ideas and architectures, the team looked to address all the challenges in the current hosted solutions available. SoftLayer was born. While creating and designing a new method of hosting previously unknown, it became clear that numerous systems and technical strategies must be combined to create this new service. Through the use of public and private networks, the foundation of SoftLayer was created - network-within-the-network design. In this design, each server has two network interfaces with each interface connected to a separate fully redundant routed network. With a complex set of systems designed to create an environment that is easily managed from the remote user perspective, the end goal of absolute control in terms of management and administration has been achieved.

Site Info:
Online since:
The date the domain of this site was first registered.
Alexa traffic rank:
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Alexa traffic rank in US:
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Unique monthly visitors:
The Unique Visitors metric only counts a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month. Unique Visitors are typically used to determine how popular a site is.
93,038 (Compete.com) Ranked 15 at HostMonk
Sites linking in:
Average load time:
Median website load time and percent of known sites that are slower.
1.655 Seconds, 57% of the sites are faster Ranked 41 at HostMonk
Contact Info:
Twitter profile:
Name and description of the official Twitter profile of this company.
softLayer (44207 followers)
"SoftLayer provides on-demand IT infrastructure, dedicated servers and cloud resources to customers around the globe. Our motto: Innovate or Die."
Ranked 1 at HostMonk
Address:
Physical address of this company.
6400 International Parkway, Suite 1200, Plano, TX 75093, US
6400 International Parkway, Suite 1200, Plano, TX 75093, US
Phone:
Official phone number of this company.
866.398-7638
Official email:
Official email address of this company.
sales@softlayer.com
Support email:
Support email address of this hosting provider.
support@softlayer.com
Support options:
Available support options this company providers.
Email
Terms of service:
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User Reviews:
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Blog posts
Recent posts from SoftLayer blog:
Alertia: Tech Partner Spotlight
Feb 08, 2012
This is a guest blog from our featured Technology Partners Marketplace company, Alertia. Alertia is a SaaS tool that provides a monitoring and alerting service that checks availability and response of servers, websites, and public cloud resources. Its distributed cloud-based network gives easy to understand data about server response and availability from different locations. Company...
Social Media Exclusive: Bobblehead Bonus
Feb 07, 2012
SoftLayer has a unique culture. As SLayers, we get company-inspired tattoos, we outfit ourselves (and our families) in SoftLayer gear, we take part in goofy videos, and every now and then, someone gets a shower of 10,000 bouncy balls. Our company culture is no accident; it has grown organically from the day SoftLayer was born,...
Server Hardware “Show and Tell” at Cloud Expo Europe
Feb 03, 2012
Bringing server hardware to a “Cloud Expo” is like bringing a knife to a gun fight. Why would anyone care about hardware? Isn’t “the cloud” a magical land where servers and data centers cease to exist and all that matters is that your hardware-abstracted hypervisor can scale elastically on demand? You might be surprised how...
Avoiding Apocalypses Like SOPA and PIPA
Feb 02, 2012
I’ve always enjoyed SNL’s satirization of those infomercials where a guy is slightly inconvenienced by a product that just doesn’t seem to work to his satisfaction. As a result, it shows him getting frustrated and pulling his hair out … But it doesn’t stop there. He then gets into his vehicle, drives recklessly down the...
Flex Images: Blur the Line Between Cloud and Dedicated
Feb 01, 2012
Our customers are not concerned with technology for technology’s sake. Information technology should serve a purpose; it should function as an integral means to a desired end. Understandably, our customers are focused, first and foremost, on their application architecture and infrastructure. They want, and need, the freedom and flexibility to design their applications to their...
Three Bars for Life
Jan 30, 2012
Working at SoftLayer has its perks, and one of my favorite perks to enjoy over the last three years is the ability to use a week and a half of my vacation time to travel over to Hawaii. I normally visit the Lahaina area on Maui, as I have family over there that operate Lahaina...
Deciphering SoftLayer Acronyms
Jan 27, 2012
As a bit of an introduction, I began my career as a GSP and hosted LAMP sites with WHM for SMBs … NBD. If you’re not fluent in “Tech Geek Acronym,” that sentence may as well be written in Greek. If I were to de-acronym it, I’d say, “I began my career as a Game...
Up Close and Personal: Intel Xeon E7-4850
Jan 26, 2012
Last year, we announced that we would be the first provider to offer the Intel E7-4800 series server. This bad boy has record-breaking compute power, tons of room for RAM and some pretty amazing performance numbers, and as of right now, it’s one of the most powerful servers on the market. Reading about the server...
SOPA + PIPA: “Stopped” Now. What’s Next?
Jan 24, 2012
The Internet community’s rallying cry has been heard by the United States Congress and Senate. Last week, we reported that SOPA was temporarily being put on the shelf, but now Congressman Lamar Smith has pulled the bill altogether, stating that “until there is wider agreement on a solution,” the bill will not be reintroduced. On...
ClothingLayer – SoftLayer Gear
Jan 23, 2012
It was a cold winter day, a little over two years ago I was a nervous wreck walking into SoftLayer’s headquarters for my first day of work. I didn’t know what to suspect. I was immediately put on apparel, in other words known as “swag” distribution. Not soon after I became the “go to” girl...
Librato Silverline: Tech Partner Spotlight
Jan 20, 2012
This is a guest blog from Librato about Silverline. Silverline gives detailed information, presented in graphical form, on the actual usage of processor, memory and storage and network bandwidth at the application level. It also provides reliable estimates of application resource “demand,” which allows you to identify resource constraints as a potential source of performance...
IPv6 Milestone: “World IPv6 Launch Day”
Jan 19, 2012
On Tuesday, the Internet Society announced “World IPv6 Launch Day”, a huge step in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Scheduled for June 6, 2012, this “launch day” comes almost one year after the similarly noteworthy World IPv6 Day, during which many prominent Internet businesses enabled IPv6 AAAA record resolution for their primary websites for...
Keep Fighting: SOPA on the Ropes. PIPA Lurking.
Jan 18, 2012
The Internet is unnervingly quiet today. In response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate, some of the most popular sites on the web have gone dark today – demonstrating the danger (and the potential unchecked power) of these two bills....
Web Development – HTML5 – Web Fonts
Jan 17, 2012
All but gone are the days of plain, static webpages flowered with horrible repeating neon backgrounds and covered with nauseating animated GIFs created by amateur designers that would make your mother cry and induce seizures in your grandpa. Needless to say, we have come a long way since Al Gore first “created the intarwebs” in...
What I’ve Learned About Leading
Jan 16, 2012
What does it take to be a good leader? What kind of leader do you want to follow? Throughout my life, I’ve gravitated toward leadership positions. Even when I was young, I tended to take charge of a group to achieve a goal or accomplish a mission … though most of the “missions” in my...
The Challenge of Conveying Culture
Jan 13, 2012
Last week, Cracked.com ran an article about “9 Quirky Things Every ‘Cool’ Workplace Is Required to Have.” The post points out several seemingly trite characteristics of “trendy” and “fun” companies, and SoftLayer was one of the companies the author used to illustrate her point about quirky conference room names. The “obscure inside jokes” we chose...
How the Internet Works (And How SOPA Would Break It)
Jan 12, 2012
Last week, I explained SoftLayer’s stance against SOPA and mentioned that SOPA would essentially require service providers like SoftLayer to “break the Internet” in response to reports of “infringing sites.” The technical readers in our audience probably acknowledged the point and moved on, but our non-technical readers (and some representatives in Congress) might have gotten...
blue dog NETWORK: Tech Partner Spotlight
Jan 11, 2012
This is a guest blog from blue dog NETWORK about Hosted Sharepoint. blue dog NETWORK customers are realizing the results that every business wants from their information technology: intelligence, simplicity, and security. They get peace of mind and the agility to add or subtract users or services with just a click 24/7 at a cost...
Web Development – HTML5 – Custom Data Attributes
Jan 10, 2012
I recently worked on a project that involved creating promotion codes for our clients. I wanted to make this tool as simple as possible to use and because this involved dealing with thousands of our products in dozens of categories with custom pricing for each of these products, I had to find a generic way...
iptables Tips and Tricks – Troubleshooting Rulesets
Jan 09, 2012
One of the most time consuming tasks with iptables is troubleshooting a problematic ruleset. That will not change no matter how much experience you have with it. However, with the right mindset, this task becomes considerably easier. If you missed my last installment about iptables rule processing, here’s a crash course: The rules start at...
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