Stronger Together with Open Source

The pressure has been incredibly high on OpenStack providers as the mega clouds continue to grow. It is a constant fight to compete against companies with huge war chests from their monopolies in other sectors. InMotion Hosting believes in applying the Open Source way to a service that can compete in scale with mega clouds.

OpenStack is the core of InMotion Hosting and even more so in our future. We use OpenStack to provision, clean, and update hardware; to provide networking and firewall functionality to access services; and, for internal projects. We use OpenStack and Ceph as the "Cloud Core" of our Infrastructure as a Service. With the investment and knowledge of OpenStack and our current scale from hosting customers, VPS customers, and dedicated server customers, we have realized we can also be part of how Open Source can compete with mega clouds.

With that, we have created the OpenStack Public Cloud Provider Program with specific goals to support your competitiveness, improve your costs, and embrace your unique models.

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Key Program Benefits

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Offset Starter Costs

Opening a new Region? Trying out a new suite of OpenStack Projects? We can help you get started with Cloud Credits.

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New Products Faster

Clouds are not just VMs and Storage anymore. New services validated regularly for potential inclusion in your offering.

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Market Insights

Work with other leaders on strategy and forward business models. Includes regular technical previews and market studies.

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Lower Costs with Flex Metal Cloud

Our mission is to bring your per unit costs (like by VM, or GB storage, or IOPS, or gbit bandwidth) to below what you currently pay, all in, for your underlying infrastructure. We accounted for everything that goes into “cost” including both hard costs in purchases, soft costs in time, and splitting headaches when things don’t go right!

  • Select, design, test, and negotiate for servers, routers, core switches, ToRs, etc.
  • Available spare hardware and service controls to mitigate failures such as SSDs reaching wear limits.
  • Select and negotiate Colocation, Data Center buildout, bandwidth, peering, and cross-connects, times 3 for redundancy and out of band connections.
  • Ramp up to target usage of Data Center space and power
  • Setup, test, and bring firmware up to date.

Based on current data from OpenStack based public cloud providers, with the scale we have in our Ashburn/Washington DC data centers, we can lower costs significantly for almost all providers. This is particularly true for small and medium sized providers.

This is in addition to providing the key benefits listed above. This is currently for the Ashburn location, but as we scale out in other locations, we also expect to realize additional scale savings that will be passed directly to you.

Become More Competitive in the Public Cloud Marketplace

Learn about the advantages of Flex Metal Hosted Infrastructure as a Service

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Launch a new location quickly with a strong global footprint, and with only 3 servers to start with. We provide PoC credits to offset startup costs.

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The “Cloud Core” of Flex Metal Clouds are full OpenStack and Ceph Hyper-Converged clusters that deploy in about 30 minutes.

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Offer customers IOPs NVMe block storage, low-cost spinner based Object storage, and GPU based VMs. Catalog hardware can also be sold as bare metal.

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Flex Metal Clouds sit within pods and each pod has large scale DDOS Protection, 200Gbits of connectivity, and up to 20Gbits to each hardware node.

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Delivered on-demand and individually scalable

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Keep Your Unique Offering as Your Unique Offering

Our mission is to be additive to the OpenStack Public Cloud Provider ecosystem. With that in mind, a few key things that keep our system as flexible as possible:

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Your OpenStack Cloud

Each Flex Metal Cloud has its own private control plane. Add OpenStack Projects to match your unique offering. Select your CPU and RAM subscription ratios.

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Ceph Block Storage

Select from a validated hardware library that supports a wide variety of setups for networked based block storage, high IOPS local LVM storage, and massive RAM VMs with your cloud.

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IP Blocks in ASN

Flex Metal Cloud supports reassignment of IP blocks in your ASN to our ASN for announcing your IP blocks from our routers. Learn more by reading Arin’s Reassignment Process.

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Add Region

With you having a full control plane, you have many options like "Add Region" for integrating this new location into your product offering. Support Open Source with InMotion Hosting.

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