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# Service description

Version 2024.09.16

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Glesys managed Linux hosting is a repeatable and cost-efficient solution where we take responsibility for installing, administering, maintaining, and monitoring a Linux-based stack, such as LAMP, for a fixed monthly cost.

### Regional availability

The product is present in the following locations:

* dc-fbg1 (our Falkenberg DC, Sweden)

* dc-sto1 (our Stockholm DC, Sweden)

* dc-oul1 (our Oulu DC, Finland)

* dc-ams1 (partner DC in Amsterdam)

* dc-lon1 (partner DC in London)

* dc-osl1 (partner DC in Oslo)

### Technical specification

| **Operating System**            | Latest version of Debian              |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| **Supported platforms**         | VPS VMware, VPS KVM, Dedicated Server |
| **SSH access**                  | Yes (non-root)                        |
| **Processing of personal data** | Storage, transfer                     |

### Supported services\*

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="316"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Web servers</strong></td><td>Apache2, Nginx</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Databases</strong></td><td>MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, Memcached</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Programming languages</strong></td><td>PHP, Python, Node.js</td></tr><tr><td><strong>SSL certificates</strong></td><td>Automated Let's Encrypt, Bring your own certificate</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Other</strong></td><td>Postfix, ProFTPd, RabbitMQ, HAProxy</td></tr></tbody></table>

<sub>\*Do you need something else? Feel free to contact sales to see if we can help!</sub>

### Supported clustered services

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="316"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Multi-Primary Replication</strong></td><td>MariaDB, Galera, Elasticsearch</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Single Primary Replication</strong></td><td>MariaDB, Redis, MongoDB, HAProxy</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Supported clustered services

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="316"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Firewall</strong></td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Monitoring</strong></td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Backup</strong></td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Antivirus</strong></td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Network File System (NFS)</strong></td><td>Yes</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Responsibilities

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="316"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Updating and patching OS</strong></td><td>Glesys</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Monitoring server and services</strong></td><td>Glesys</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Backup platform</strong></td><td>Glesys</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Creating and maintaining databases</strong></td><td>Customer</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Application code/data/support</strong></td><td>Customer</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Backup validation</strong></td><td>Customer</td></tr></tbody></table>