SP// VIRTUAL MACHINES
Deploy workloads closer to end-users than ever before.
Ultra-low Latency
High Scalability & Flexibility
Multi-cloud Support
Control & Cost Effectiveness
Latency isn’t just inconvenient—it’s expensive. And the physical distance between hyper-scale cloud data centers and your end-users might not seem big, but every mile matters to workloads that measure performance in units smaller than milliseconds.
SP// Virtual Machines have the edge that latency-sensitive workloads need. Enjoy all of the scalability, efficiency, access and control benefits expected from a cloud VM, compounded by the advantage of being in StackPath edge locations worldwide. Put your workloads virtually in end-users’ backyards.
StackPath has helped Network Next deliver better digital experiences for our customers. Among our suppliers, StackPath is consistently in the top-performing group in many locations.
Glenn Fiedler • CEO, Network Next
Case StudyUse Cases
Low-latency Application Servers
Configure and completely control a full computing environment to run multiple applications and make it exactly the web server, game server, database node or other low-latency solution you require.
Software-Defined Appliances
Build and deploy your appliances on StackPath OS Images at the edge, such as firewalls, gateways, load balancers or storage devices.
Private Edge Applications
Create, use, or even sell our own edge application, such as a content delivery network, virtual desktops, DNS resolvers, and more.
Ultra-low Latency
Deploy VMs in any of 22 edge locations, part of our global platform of 73 geographically diverse locations connected by a private network backbone. End-user data can reach our VMs up to 2.6x faster than public cloud VMs, and data can move between edge locations 21% faster than if routed over the public Internet.
Bandwidth Optimization
Optimize how much data your workload has to move around the internet by having it processed and returned closer to end-users, reducing total bandwidth usage and minimizing data corruption and vulnerability inherently to data in transit.
Multi-cloud Support
StackPath VMs are designed to become a seamless part of your multi-cloud strategy. Familiar controls, open source operating systems, and robust APIs make it easy to integrate and manage StackPath VMs in manual operations, automated workflows, and CI/CD pipelines, to complement third-party services with new levels of optimization and speed.
High Scalability and Flexibility
Leverage Anycast IP addresses and autoscaling to meet demand spikes, route traffic to the fastest-responding VMs, and establish other sophisticated methods to ensure instances are not overloaded, all requests are served promptly, and your operations run efficiently.
More Control and Cost-effectiveness
Simplify operations by deploying to a fully managed environment with instant deployment, no clusters to deal with, a robust and open RESTful API, support for CI/CD environments and existing DevOps tools like Terraform and direct control over CPU, memory, disk resources and location.
Key Features
CentOS, Ubuntu or Debian Installed
Deploy VMs with the latest certified CentOS, Ubuntu, or Debian distributions of Linux installed, configured by StackPath using best security and performance practices.
Anycast IP Addresses
Add Anycast IPs to automatically distribute end-user/client traffic to your fastest-responding VM, with traffic being routed more efficiently over our edge network’s private backbone.
Image Capture & Storage
Capture and store images of existing VMs to enable autoscaling, rapid deployment, or convenient rollbacks for version control or backward compatibility.
Auto-scaling
Seamlessly scale up and out during periods of high demand to ensure workload availability without any service degradation.
Instant Deployment
Have VMs running in any or many StackPath edge locations in seconds with a single click or API call.
CI/CD Support
Push changes to VMs with CLI tools that integrate with your existing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, reducing the risk of code changes to mission-critical workloads.
L3-L4 DDoS Protection
Detect and mitigate L3-L4 volumetric attacks for VM workloads on SP// Edge Compute with automated detection of 99% of attacks within seconds. DDoS scrubbing is built into each edge location and happens in line with the traffic, adding no additional latency for clean traffic.
Support Plans
Our optional Silver, Gold, and Platinum Support Plans provide increasing levels of our acclaimed customer and technical support, so that you tailor the level of engagement and assistance you need from StackPath to your specific workload and internal skill levels and resources.
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Our Platform
Powering all of StackPath is a high-performance, fully automated, and completely secure global platform that seamlessly integrates best-in-class orchestration, hardware infrastructure, and network architecture.
Edge Locations
73 edge locations strategically deployed where customers’ end-users are most densely concentrated. Unlike legacy providers’, each location is a complete deployment of our computing, networking, and orchestration stack.
EdgeEngine™
Our orchestration engine provisions and manages all aspects of SP// edge IaaS, edge applications, and accounts, and puts the whole StackPath platform at customers’ fingertips via an easy to use customer portal and comprehensive APIs.
Edge Network
Our multi-dimensional network provides high-speed throughput (with up to 95% of all traffic handed directly to last-mile networks) and exceptional total egress capacity (100+Tbps). Also, it keeps data off the public internet as long as possible.
Pricing
SP// Virtual Machines are billed based on the number of VMs running in each location. VM usage is calculated by the second after a 5-minute per VM minimum. Sign up and get started or request a demo today.
| Subscription | Cores | RAM | Root Disk (SSD) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP-1 | 1 | 2GB | 25GB | $0.052/hour |
| SP-2 | 2 | 4GB | 25GB | $0.100/hour |
| SP-3 | 2 | 8GB | 25GB | $0.117/hour |
| SP-4 | 4 | 16GB | 25GB | $0.231/hour |
| SP-5 | 8 | 32GB | 25GB | $0.458/hour |
| Outside Traffic | |
|---|---|
| Ingress from public internet to one instance | Included |
| Egress from one instance to the public internet, except Manila | $0.05/GB/month |
| Egress from one instance to the public internet, from Manila | $0.08/GB/month |
| Internal Traffic | |
|---|---|
| Egress from one instance to another StackPath service (e.g. CDN or WAF) | Included |
| Egress from one instance to another instance in the same StackPath edge location | Included |
| Egress from one instance to another instance in a different StackPath edge location: | |
| • North America to North America | $0.01/GB |
| • North America to Europe | $0.03/GB |
| • North America to Asia | $0.04/GB |
| • North America to Australia | $0.09/GB |
| • North America to Latin America | $0.08/GB |
| • Europe to Europe | $0.01/GB |
| • Europe to Asia | $0.07/GB |
| • Europe to Australia | $0.09/GB |
| • Europe to Latin America | $0.10/GB |
| • Asia to Asia | $0.03/GB |
| • Asia to Australia | $0.09/GB |
| • Asia to Latin America | $0.10/GB |
| • Australia to Australia | $0.02/GB |
| • Australia to Latin America | $0.12/GB |
| IP Addresses | |
|---|---|
| Static IP Address | Included |
| Global Anycast IP Address | $0.05/IP/hour |
| Storage | |
|---|---|
| Image Storage | $0.04/GB/month |
| Persistent Storage | $0.35/GB/month |
| L3-L4 DDoS Protection | Included protected hours | Price | Additional protected hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Pay as you use | $0 / month | $0.12 / hour |
| Professional | 7,200 hours / month | $432 / month | $0.06 / hour |
| Enterprise | 72,000 hours / month | $3,600 / month | $0.05 / hour |
| Support | |
|---|---|
| Standard Support* | Included |
* See Support page for details and upgrade options.
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