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# Service description Fixed Plans

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### Regional availability

The product is present in the following locations:

* dc-fbg1 (our Falkenberg DC, Sweden)

### Technical specification

All virtualization hosts are built on optimized Intel® hardware for optimal performance.

The network infrastructure is built on Cisco hardware.

| **Customer self-service**       | Yes, managed in the control panel                    |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| **CPU cores**                   | 1–24 cores (hot-add/remove depending on OS)          |
| **Memory**                      | 1–32 GiB (hot-add depending on OS)                   |
| **Disk storage**                | 20–600 GiB (increase with restart)                   |
| **Storage type**                | NVMe (limited to 6,000 IOPS)                         |
| **Available OS templates**      | AlmaLinux, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, Talos, OpenSense |
| **Shared CPU\***                | Yes                                                  |
| **Backup support**              | Yes (as an integrated add-on)                        |
| **Cloud-init support**          | Yes (use API for customizing cloud-init)             |
| **Additional disk support**     | No                                                   |
| **Anti-affinity rules**         | No                                                   |
| **Bring your own IP**           | No                                                   |
| **Bring your own ISO**          | No                                                   |
| **Private networks**            | Yes                                                  |
| **Processing of personal data** | Storage, transfer                                    |

<sub>\* Normal use is at or below 50% of the average daily usage per core.</sub>

#### **Integrated backup (optional)** <a href="#integrated-backup" id="integrated-backup"></a>

| **Customer self-service** | Yes, managed in the control panel |
| ------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| **Configurable scheme**   | User-defined scheduling           |
| **Backup frequency**      | Daily and weekly                  |
| **Redundant backups**     | No                                |

### Responsibilities

| **Infrastructure platform**                                        | Glesys   |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- |
| **Securing VM – configuring firewall, intrusion prevention, etc.** | Customer |
| **Patching and updating the OS**                                   | Customer |
| **Troubleshooting OS**                                             | Customer |
| **Backup platform**                                                | Glesys   |
| **Backup management and validation**                               | Customer |
| **Restore from backup**                                            | Customer |