HTN Cloud Hosting Comparison

How do the new HTN Cloud Hosting plans stack up against the older Virtual and Managed Private Servers? Exceptionally well. Across the board, the Cloud Hosting plans deliver better performance; more modern software which is easier to use; and more functionality. At every price point, HTN Cloud Hosting accounts run faster than comparably prices VPS and MPS accounts.

Cirrus accounts pass the PCI External Vulnerability Scans mandated by PA-DSS requirement 11.2.

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	Cirrus	Linux VPS	Linux MPS
RAM	256 MB - 16 GB	256 - 768 MB	1 GB - 4 GB
Processes	Unlimited	70 - 300	Unlimited
CPU	2.4 GHz Dual Quad-Core CPUs	?	Xeon Quad-Core 3000 Series, 1 or 2 CPUs
Data Stream Rate	10 Mb/s - 300 Mb/s	0.128 MB/s - 1 MB/s (about 1 Mb/s - 8 Mb/s)	?
Operating System	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or 8.04 LTS	RHEL 4
Add-on Software	All package repositories available	Restricted, Verio-maintained, set of repositories supported
Control Panel	Choose either Parallels® Plesk 10.0 or 9.5	Proprietary
Web Mail	@Mail and Horde IMP	Proprietary
Web Applications	Yes. Includes over 200 applications for your web site.	Fewer than 10 web applications. Installation requires using ssh to log into the server as "root" and running the "vinstall" command.
DNS Management in Contol Panel	Yes	No
Pass PCI San	Yes	No (unless you intentionally hide outdated software from the scanner)
PCI Scanning Permitted	Yes, without conditionns or restrictions.	Only with prior written permission and then only at the time specified. No more often than once per week.	Only with prior written permission and then only at the time specified. No more often than once per day.
Backups	Nightly backups retained for 5 days. (Longer time available for small additional fee.) No charge for restorations.	Nightly disk backups, overwritten each night. Weekly tape backups, retained for 2-3 weeks. No charge for restoration from disk backups. $100 charge for restoration from tape backups.
Reliability	Excellent. Backed by Hen's Teeth Network, Rackspace, Canonical, and Parallels.	Excellent. Backed by Hen's Teeth Network and Verio.

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While we make every effort to assure that the information presented here is accurate, specifications are subject to change without notice.

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