CASE STUDY
Ampere® Altra® Processors Power a More Efficient Data Center for Plesk’s WebOps Platform
Ampere® Altra® Processors Power a More Efficient Data Center for Plesk’s WebOps Platform
08 July 2023
08 July 2023
INTRODUCTION
Plesk customers, alongside developers and IT professionals, sought a simplified, open cloud hosting platform featuring powerful processors and a robust extension ecosystem to enhance productivity and streamline website management. However, existing x86 platforms struggled with critical limitations, including high power consumption, excessive heat generation, and suboptimal resource allocation, which collectively hindered efficiency and inflated operational costs. This pressing need for a new, more efficient architecture prompted Plesk to innovate. Learn how Plesk strategically implemented Ampere® Altra® processors as a transformative solution, not only addressing customer demands but also overcoming their platform's inherent x86 challenges with an architecture renowned for its "climate-friendly" power management, lower thermal design point, and superior price/performance.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Plesk is a global leader in WebOps hosting, empowering organizations, developers, and hosting businesses to efficiently run, automate, and grow their applications and websites. With robust software tools deployed on over 384,000 servers, Plesk automates 11 million websites and powers 15 million mailboxes worldwide. They provide a comprehensive, secure, and versatile toolkit, simplifying cloud development, enhancing productivity, and offering an open platform with a rich extension ecosystem for a broad spectrum of web professionals.
Challenges
Plesk customers required a simplified, open cloud hosting platform with powerful processors and a rich extension ecosystem for enhanced productivity. Developers and IT professionals sought efficient, scalable solutions for creating, securing, and managing websites. Existing x86 platforms struggled with power consumption, heat generation, and optimal resource allocation, hindering efficiency and increasing operational costs, prompting the need for a new architecture.
Solution
Plesk embraced Ampere® Altra® processors to address customer demands and platform limitations. The engineering team found Ampere's "climate-friendly" power management, lower thermal design point, superior price/performance, and optimized single-threaded core architecture compelling. Porting their core C++ code and adapting third-party dependencies to Arm64 was straightforward, ensuring a smooth transition to this powerful, efficient new platform.
Benefits
Plesk customers now benefit from cloud infrastructure marked by dramatically lower power consumption, reduced heat generation, and exceptional resource allocation. Ampere Altra processors deliver 57% better performance per watt, leading to significant cost reductions for hosting. Service providers can optimize datacenter space and pass savings to users, while minimizing carbon footprints and offering superior price/performance, especially in regions facing energy cost increases.
“One of the main advantages of using Arm architecture is cost efficiency, as less power is consumed,” he concludes. Ampere processors are designed to have the lowest possible energy consumption while delivering exceptional processing power.”
— Anton Akhtyamov,
Product Manage, Plesk
“Since we have launched on OCI Ampere A1, we now have hosting partners who are coming to us and say they now want to migrate large, shared hosting or eCommerce environments to Ampere A1.”
— Anton Akhtyamov,
Product Manage, Plesk
Footnotes
1. Built for the Sustainable Cloud.
2. “Trends Review: The Rise of Arm Architecture,” Victor Kupriyanov, January 18, 2022.
3. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog, “Compute and High-Performance Computing Roadmap Update,” September 22, 2020.
4. Ampere A1 burstable VM instances take price performance to the next level.
About Ampere
Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute. As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.
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