Servers & Cloud
Provision and manage cloud servers, firewalls, volumes, networks and load balancers.
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Load Balancers
Spread traffic across servers to keep a service responsive.
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Metrics & alerts
CPU, network and disk metrics, with threshold alerts and incidents.
- See which servers are running hot
- Set alert rules once for every server
- Install the server agent, step by step
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Set reverse DNS (PTR)Reverse DNS (a PTR record) maps a server's IP address back to a hostname — useful for mail servers and clean logs.Open a server's consoleThe console is a screen and keyboard attached directly to your server — the way in when SSH won't connect.Manage a serverOpen a server to control its whole lifecycle — power, rebuilds, recovery, networking and more.Server backups and snapshotsProtect a server's data with provider backups and your own snapshots.About cloud serversInfraNest brings your cloud servers — and the firewalls, volumes, networks and load balancers around them — into one place, so you can run and secure them…Add a server you already haveNot every server lives in a cloud account. You might have your own hardware in an office or a rack, or a machine at a provider InfraNest does not connect to…Create a serverProvision a new cloud server through one of your connected providers, without leaving InfraNest.IP addressesThe fixed IP addresses your provider has reserved for you, which server each one currently points at, and what you are paying for the ones pointing at nothing.Remove a server from InfraNest (or delete it for real)There are two different things people mean by "remove this server", and only one of them stops the bill.Keep a server secureEvery server has a Security Advisor that turns "is this set up safely?" into a simple checklist, sorted by how important each issue is, with one-click fixes.Private networksPrivate networks let your servers talk to each other over internal traffic, without going over the public internet.Firewall templatesFirewall templates are reusable sets of firewall rules, so your servers can share a consistent, safe baseline.Manage firewallsManage your cloud firewalls across providers in one editor, and get warned about risky rules as you go.Load balancersLoad balancers spread incoming traffic across several servers, so a service stays up and responsive.See which servers are running hotThe Capacity & growth report shows CPU, memory and disk for every server over a month you choose — and which disks are filling up.Set alert rules once for every serverAn alert default is a rule you set once for your whole organisation. Every server you have switched monitoring on for follows it, and any single server can…Install the server agent, step by stepThis walks through installing the InfraNest agent on one server, from getting a token to seeing the numbers arrive. It takes about two minutes per server.Get memory, disk space and load with the agentYour provider can tell us how busy a server is. It cannot tell us how much memory is left, how full the disk is, or which process is eating the machine…Server metrics and alertsInfraNest collects each server's CPU, network and disk metrics, shows them as graphs, and can alert you when something stays over a threshold for too long.Switch on monitoring for a serverMonitoring is something you switch on for each server you want watched. A server that is not switched on still appears in your inventory and still works…