NakedBox Networks Launches New Dedicated Servers Offering

HostReview.com
Tuesday, July 12, 2005; 01:47 PM

NakedBox Networks officially launches their company with a new Carrier Class Dedicated Server offering.

Co-located at AboveNet, a tier 1 data center and network operator, NakedBox offers a self-managed server package for a $150 monthly fee, which includes a high-end server (your own 3GHz Pentium with hyper-threading) running Red Hat or FreeBSD, a dedicated private VLAN network per host, a dedicated IP subnet, remote power cycle capability, a stateful inspection firewall, a 99.9% availability SLA, egress billing, 24/7 customer service, and a terabyte of transfer traffic. Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers are also available with a variety of configurable options.

"We have automated and streamlined our system so we can offer a better quality product at a lower price without sacrificing any of the features you would expect in a premium package," said Frank Basso, NakedBox's Chief Operating Officer.

"Additionally, we have an egress-based billing solution and flat-rate offerings so we only count the bandwidth used by the customer. Many of the existing services use cheaper gear to keep their costs down, but we've aimed all along for a premium-class service, so we use server-class hardware. We also provide a stateful, virtual, software-based firewall with a web interface set-up that we don't charge extra for. Users can configure it themselves."

Each server includes a dedicated IP subnet in conjunction with a private VLAN, so each server is isolated.

The NakedBox team has been brought together from previous hosting, service provider, and telecom environments. We've been able to start from scratch and address the problems we've seen from customer and provider viewpoints. In fact, the name "NakedBox" is derived from the old telecom industry term "Naked Line," which is a copper wire pair that connects two points but doesn't have a dial tone on it.