Virtual Data Centre

A Virtual Data Centre (VDC) provides a private virtual infrastructure environment where you can deploy and manage multiple virtual machines and workloads. Instead of purchasing and maintaining physical servers, you can build your infrastructure using virtual servers running on Farbyte’s UK cloud platform.

A VPS provides you with an individual virtual server with its own allocated resources. A VDC provides a wider virtual infrastructure environment in which you can run multiple virtual machines and allocate resources across your workloads.

A VPS is generally better suited to an individual website, application or workload, while a VDC is designed for businesses and technical teams that need multiple interconnected servers or a more flexible infrastructure environment.

The number of virtual machines you can run depends on the resources allocated to your VDC and the requirements of each virtual machine. You can use your available CPU, RAM and storage resources across multiple virtual machines according to your infrastructure requirements.

For larger or more complex environments, contact us to discuss your requirements.

A VDC allows you to run multiple virtual machines within your allocated infrastructure. Each virtual machine can have its own operating system, resources and workload, allowing you to build a multi-server environment rather than managing several unrelated VPS services.

Yes. Virtual machines within a VDC can run supported operating systems independently of one another. This allows you to build an environment containing different Linux distributions or Windows Server systems where required.

Yes. A VDC can be used to build multi-server environments where virtual machines communicate with one another. This allows you to separate workloads such as web servers, application servers, databases and network services while keeping them within the same virtual infrastructure.

Each VDC comes with at least 1 private VLAN.

Yes. Your VDC can be expanded as your infrastructure requirements grow. Additional CPU, RAM and storage can be allocated to your environment, subject to available capacity and the configuration of your service.

If you expect your requirements to grow significantly, we can discuss the most appropriate configuration for your VDC.

Your Virtual Data Centre is hosted on Farbyte’s UK-based cloud infrastructure, which is operated and managed by our own team.

Our infrastructure uses high-performance server hardware, KVM virtualisation and distributed storage to provide the underlying platform for your virtual environment.

Farbyte operates and manages the underlying physical infrastructure and virtualisation platform. You remain responsible for the virtual machines, operating systems and applications you deploy unless additional management services have been agreed.

This gives you the flexibility of managing your own virtual infrastructure while Farbyte takes care of the physical platform underneath it.

VDC hosting is suited to businesses, developers, IT service providers and organisations that need multiple virtual servers or a more flexible infrastructure environment.

It’s particularly useful for multi-server applications, development and testing environments, private cloud infrastructure, hosting services and other workloads that would be difficult to manage efficiently using a single VPS.

Yes, a VDC can be suitable for businesses and service providers that need to run infrastructure or applications for their own customers. It provides a flexible platform for deploying multiple virtual servers and separating different customer workloads.

If you are planning to use a VDC to provide hosting or other services to your customers, contact us to discuss your requirements and the appropriate configuration.