Enterprise Physical Dedicated Servers in Australia

When it's time to expand your business, you need more than a just a server.   

Micron21 can provide you with a comprehensive solution that is tailored to suit your requirements.

Every plan includes:

Highly trained engineers that support the environments they build. Our free support covers all the basics. See our customer care plans for what’s included.

24/7
Support

The same protection behind Australia’s largest internet brands. Global layer 3 to 7 DDoS protection using Micron21's own scrubbing centres located in Amsterdam, Singapore, Los Angeles, Sydney and Melbourne.

DDoS
Protection

Every server comes with a single static IP, with additional IPs and ranges available as needed.

Single
Static IP

Our dedicated servers utilise Intel XEON Gold CPUs to deliver high-performance compute, even for the most-demanding of applications.

High Performance
Compute

Colocation of your server at our Tier IV accredited data centre is included, which comes with a 100.00% guarantee on uptime.

Colocation

Why choose Micron21?

Being Australia's first Tier IV data centre, you can rest assured our dedicated physical server offerings provide secure, high-calibre performance.

Why we've chosen to partner with Dell

By utilising the same enterprise-grade Dell hardware across the board, we're able to ensure we've got spare parts available if needed.  We're also able to easily call upon Dell to investigate issues if they arise - even those harder-to-solve edge cases.  What this means for our customers is that if an issue should arise, it will be dealt with promptly

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Fast, Reliable and Secure

Fast, Reliable and Secure

We supply businesses with the latest Dell Enterprise server technology, the highest quality bandwidth, and all of the traditional benefits of exclusive server leasing: security; flexibility; and control.   By partnering with prominent vendors such as Dell, Microsoft, Veeam, VMware, Red Hat, cPanel, Plesk, and supporting many open-source platforms such as OpenStack, Ceph, Promox and more, we're able to tailor a physical dedicated server solution that suits the specific needs of your organisation.

We provide dedicated hosting to businesses in Australia and worldwide. A dedicated server hosting solution at Micron21 allows you to choose the level of support you receive, from self-managed services all the way through to proactive ultimate support.

Why Micron21?

Data Sovereignty

As the country’s first and only entirely Australian-owned Tier IV data centre, we can provide our customers with the complete peace of mind that comes with knowing that their data is stored entirely within Australia and protected by highly trained and experienced experts.

Our customers can rest assured that the entire process of storing and protecting their data is completely transparent and customer-driven.  While your data is being stored with us, you’ll have constant 24/7 access to our friendly, professional and extremely knowledgeable team of support staff, ready to offer their expert help and guidance whenever it's needed.

Comprehensive solutions

Fully Fault-Tolerant Colocation

  • 4N power delivered by four independent circuits powered from Independent PDUs, switchboards, UPSs
  • 3N onsite permanent Cummins diesel generators for circuit power
  • Emerson Extreme Density independent and dedicated top-of-rack cooling unit per rack
  • Tier IV design-certified data centre infrastructure
  • Domestic and International DDoS protected network (Dedicated International Capacity)
  • One of the most interconnected networks in Australia boasting direct cross-connections to ALL major ISPs in Australia (Telstra, Optus, iiNet, Internode, TPG, Primus)

Take a Virtual Tour of the Micron21 Tier IV Data Centre

Come and experience the difference a Tier IV data centre can make to the reliability and availability of your services.

In terms of power and cooling redundancy, Micron21 is an Australian first and leader in this space, exceeding both the Tier IV standard and the resilience of other data centres.

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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a physical Data Centre?

A Data Centre is a custom-designed physical facility for the storage of large-scale computer systems and servers, along with other information and communications technology. If a small business chooses to store their computer systems in-house, it’s important for the business to reassess this, especially as they grow and have online presence. This is due to the fact that there are number of significant risks associated in keeping all of your company’s data (including those of your customers) all stored at your own premise(s).

Firstly, regardless of how secure your premises are, they’re never going to match the security of a physical data centre. Data centres are entirely out-of-bounds for anyone who doesn’t absolutely need to be there, and any guests must always be escorted by a member of staff at all times.

Furthermore, the entire building will be under constant, 24/7 CCTV surveillance, 365 days a year.  All doors will be thoroughly guarded with advanced security systems, and the most crucial areas of the building will only be possible to access using retina scanners.

With all the above security and more, data centres can guarantee that your data will be kept safely away from the hands of anyone not authorised to access it.

Why do you need a physical Data Centre?

Whilst a physical data centre is primarily a highly secure location in which to store your company’s server and other important computer systems, it’s also much more. Another huge benefit of using a data centre, rather than keeping your server on your own premise(s) includes the fact that data centres are highly redundant.  This means that every important system, function and resource is backed-up by multiple duplicates, resulting in no risk of computers losing power or coming up against any other difficulties which may cause them to shut down and cause your server to crash.

Data centres also take extreme precaution in the fact that having large numbers of computers constantly running in close proximity to each other can quickly lead to overheating problems. With the most advanced cooling systems available on the market and state-of-the-art fire prevention technology, data centres can minimise the risk of overheating or fires far more effectively than a business can do so themselves in-house. This  .,mnbaspect is hugely significant, as even a small loss of data or a brief period of downtime can cause serious negative consequences for a business and their customers.

What Operating Systems are supported?
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • CentOS
  • Debian
  • OpenSUSE
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows
  • Arch Linux
  • Gentoo
  • VMware
  • and more.
How reliable is your data centre?

We strive to maintain our excellent reputation for reliability and uptime. Our secret to success is an investment in world-leading technology, ensuring the best infrastructure is deployed in a fault tolerant architecture. This includes the entire data centre operation, from power cooling and network services through to server hardware.

We continuously invest in new Dell Enterprise server technology to ensure all customers use the latest generation hardware.

What is RAID Protection?

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It is a core feature of server hardware that ensures data integrity is distributed across more than one physical disk depending on the raid configuration. The reality is that disk failures occur. However, with RAID 1 or higher, RAID protects your data from physical drive failure without effecting the operation of the server. This allows your infrastructure to remain online.

For all servers with more than four physical drives used for production storage, we use and only recommend RAID 10, which creates a high level of performance and redundancy. For servers with two drives, we recommend RAID 1. All Micron21 services are either protected through hyper-convergence, clustering, or configured with hardware RAID, as we place the highest priority on customer data.

What hardware do you use?

We use Dell as our preferred supplier. Dell Enterprise hardware provides our customers with world-class equipment. The premium hardware has functioned seamlessly for thousands of our customers for many years. We maintain a close relationship with Dell Australia for service and support.

We maintain large amounts of Dell spare parts on-site, including:

  • Power supplies.
  • Hard disk drives.
  • Raid cards.
  • Motherboards.

All server hardware supplied to customers has a minimum of two power supplies and is fully monitored 24 hours a day, including a daily visual inspection. If a fault does occur, we respond proactively and fix the fault before it becomes an issue.

By standardizing to one hardware vendor, our systems operation centre (SOC) easily manages and maintains all hardware across our data centre using the Dell OMSA and DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) systems.

This monitoring platform alerts our SOC to handle issues with hardware before it fails, allowing us to act quickly and replace hardware before it impacts upon service.

For clients with physical dedicated hosting servers we provide customers with remote access via using DRAC Enterprise.

What processors do you use?

Customise your dedicated servers with the latest high-performing Intel Gold Xeon processors. These enable workloads to run faster and more efficiently while lowering overall cost of ownership.

How much memory can I add?

Add up to 2TB of RAM during initial deployment, or increase memory capacity during the life of your server to meet your business growth. With next-generation DDR4 memory support, your overall memory bandwidth increases and is optimised for your workloads.

What are NVMe SSDs?

As you seek to harness the power of information, the demand for data-intensive and transactional workloads such as data warehousing, real-time analytics and virtualized environments is expanding. Micron21 provide enterprise-class NVMe Solid State Drives (SSDs) that offer significant performance benefits over traditional spinning disks. This is ideal for applications requiring high random I/Os per second (IOPS) performance with low latency.

What is Dell OMSA?

Dell OMSA (Open Manage Server Administrator) is a software agent that provides a comprehensive, one-to-one systems management solution in two ways: from an integrated, Web browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) and from a command line interface (CLI) through the operating system.

OMSA is designed so that Micron21 SOC system administrators can manage server systems both locally and remotely on our network. It also interfaces with Open Manage Essentials (OME) console, which allows for monitoring of systems in our data centre from a single interface.

What is DRAC?

The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller is embedded within every Dell PowerEdge™ server and provides functionality that helps IT administrators deploy, update, monitor, and maintain Dell servers with no need to install additional software.

The Dell iDRAC works regardless of operating system or hypervisor presence. From a pre-OS or bare-metal state, iDRAC is ready to work because it is embedded within each server from the factory.

DRAC enables anywhere, anytime remote management, system reboots, monitoring, troubleshooting, remediation and server upgrades, independent of the OS status.

The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to make server administrators more productive and improve the overall availability of Dell servers. iDRAC alerts administrators to server issues, helps them perform remote server management, and reduces the need for physical access to the server.

All physical dedicated servers provided by Micron21 include a DRAC access at no additional cost.

What bandwidth upgrade options are available?

By default, each physical dedicated server at our Australian data centre comes with 2000GB of usage-based data per month. For more data, simply upgrade to one of our 95th percentile or fixed mbit data plans and enjoy massive amounts of additional capacity with your service.

Are these servers available as managed services?

With physical dedicated hardware and hosting, you enjoy the responsibility of dedicated resources. Still, these resources need to be managed correctly for the platform to work effectively and be safe and secure.

Our physical dedicated servers are offered as self-managed solutions unless a support package is purchased.

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