Virtual Appliances

Cloudstacker customers have access to our internal library of custom virtual appliances, including the following:

Cloud Stacker Firewall Appliance (PF/FreeBSD Based)

Virtual Machine Specs:

  • CPU(s): 2
  • RAM: 1gb
  • Disk: 80gb
  • Fully managed/maintained OS
  • On site Backups included

Firewall features:

  • Filtering by source and destination IP, IP protocol, source and destination port for TCP and UDP traffic
  • Highly flexible policy routing possible by selecting gateway on a per-rule basis (for load balancing, failover, multiple WAN, etc.)
  • Transparent layer 2 firewalling capable
  • Packet normalization
  • Adjustable state table size
  • Port forwards including ranges and the use of multiple public IPs
  • 1:1 NAT for individual IPs or entire subnets
  • Redundancy setup available between multiple firewalls
  • Firewall offers three options for VPN connectivity, IPsec, OpenVPN, and PPTP.
  • IPS/IDS (Intrusion detection/prevention) included via SNORT
  • Cloud Stacker Advanced Load Balancer Appliance

Virtual Machine Specs:

  • CPU(s): 2
  • RAM: 2gb
  • Disk: 80gb
  • Fully managed/maintained OS
  • On site Backups included

Load Balancer Features:

  • high-performance and highly-robust TCP and HTTP load balancer
  • Layer 7 routing capable
  • Cookie-based persistence
  • Supports content-based switching rules
  • Advanced traffic regulation
  • Wide choice of Load balancing algorithms (round-robin, least conn, source, uri, url_param)
  • Content inspection allowing to block unexpected protocols
  • Transparent proxy
  • Session rate limiting
  • Supports zero downtime hot-reconfiguration
  • Includes SSL offloading
  • Includes monitoring of all backend servers as well as server/application level health checks
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