Reliable Data offers several dedicated server solutions, in many varieties of the Unix operating system. Our dedicated server packages include base bandwidth of 15 Gigabytes. You can have a dedicated Web or Email server with Reliable Data for as little as $99.00 per month! Managed Services are also available. The following operating systems are all excellent choices for standard Internet services, and all have their particular strengths:

Solaris

Sun servers running the Solaris OS are among the most widely used platforms in the industry. A great deal of software has been written for Solaris, and compatibility with other systems is rarely an issue. On the hardware side, Sun machines themselves are excellent. The UltraSparc technology that Sun has used for years is extremely tough to beat for outright reliability and performance. These servers often go a few hundred days between restarts - they're that reliable. This website is served by a Solaris machine.

Linux

Linux is the exciting new Unix-like OS that is shaking up the industry. Several companies are now marketing their own Linux distributions, and Linux has found a dedicated and rapidly growing following. Linux incorporates a great many of the best features found in other varieties of Unix. Linux software can be found almost everywhere, and more software applications appear daily.

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is the most widely used variety of the BSD family. BSD has its roots at Berkeley, where some of the very best Internet research has been done. FreeBSD boasts that it is the most stable Internet software anywhere, and that's probably true. Like other BSDs, FreeBSD is free to download, and relatively straightforward to install and configure. With it's incredible benchmarks, FreeBSD makes an excellent choice for high-volume web or email servers.

OpenBSD

OpenBSD strives for perfection. Perfection in everything from the documentation to the security. In fact, OpenBSD is widely considered to be the most secure OS on the planet. OpenBSD's extraordinary record of security makes this OS an ideal candidate for firewall applications, and anywhere else where security is paramount. Of course, OpenBSD operates on several platforms, including the high-performance hardware built by Sun and HP.

MacOS X

For a long time, Macintosh computers have been excellent design stations, usually outpacing everything they compete with, in terms of raw speed and ease-of-use. However, the operating system was never really suited to high-volume or ultra-reliable Internet server work. That all changed with the advent of OS X. OS X is now basically a shell, running on top of a tweaked version of BSD UNIX (Darwin), similar to the way Windows used to run on top of MS-DOS, and pretty much just like X-Windows runs on UNIX workstations now. Now OS X users have the best of both worlds: The excellent Macintosh interface Apple is famous for, and a powerful, fully-multitasking Unix back-end that makes even the nerds gush. With the all-new, powerful XServe rack-mountable server, Apple has shown it is serious about this market. Keep an eye on OS X.