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IDrive, a company that’s made a name for itself in the online backup space, enters the cloud computing category with IDrive Compute. The company’s first Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) product offers flexible, scalable plans that complement a wide variety of business and consumer needs. IDrive Compute is decidedly more straightforward than the exhaustively comprehensive feature set found in Amazon Web Services (AWS), our Editors’ Choice winner for IaaS, but the service makes up for this simplicity with low prices and ease of use. However, you may find its limited customer support hours and lack of Windows-based servers inconvenient.
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What Does IDrive Compute Offer?
IDrive’s cloud service consists of 4,000 Linux-based servers spread across 26 data centers in the US and Europe. Each server uses NVMe storage, and you can outfit one with a Linux distribution, such as AlmaLinux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Rocky Linux, and Ubuntu. Like Digital Ocean, IDrive lacks the Windows Server operating system. Check out AWS or Google Cloud Platform if you need that OS.
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You can also select an application stack, which provides a suite of programs for performing specific tasks. These include (but are not limited to) CPanel & WHM, GitLab, Jitsi, Joomla, and WordPress. If you need database management, IDrive offers a MySQL stack that includes Apache, MySQL Server, PHP, phpMyAdmin, and UFW. Want to build a Minecraft server? IDrive offers a Minecraft stack on Ubuntu, which provides a Minecraft: Java Edition server. These turnkey options make IDrive appealing to people who want a streamlined cloud infrastructure that isn’t overly complicated.
IDrive’s Security Muscle
IDrive has useful tools to help you monitor your computing environment and keep it secure. For example, a dedicated Activity Logs tab keeps track of sign-ins, password changes, resource creation, and modifications. A separate Firewall tab lets you control…
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