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Full control, full flexibility. And your data stays where it belongs: in Switzerland. With our OpenStack-based cloud, you can build exactly what you need.

Most cloud providers are based in the US or have branches there. This means that, in theory, your data could be accessed by US authorities at any time.

At stepping stone, things are different. Our infrastructure is located exclusively in Swiss data centres in Düdingen, in the canton of Fribourg. No parent company abroad, no extraterritorial access to data. Open source as our foundation, full transparency.

The OpenStack-based cloud can be scaled as required and offers full control over servers, storage, performance and costs. Personalised advice and transparent operations from Bern ensure that your cloud is not only technically suitable, but also a good fit for your business.

Swiss companies wishing to operate their IT infrastructure flexibly and with data sovereignty, without relying on US hyperscalers. Particularly suitable for regulated sectors, public administrations and SMEs with their own compliance requirements.

Typical use cases: web applications and SaaS platforms, development and test environments, data-intensive workloads with GPU support, and hybrid cloud scenarios in combination with existing on-premises infrastructure.

Based in Switzerland. Swiss values. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. Run by a team in Bern who’ll answer the phone even when things get dicey. No offshoring, no call-centre routing.

Open source instead of dependency. Transparent pricing instead of hidden surcharges. And a pricing configurator that lets you tailor your cloud exactly to your needs.

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Cloud Server

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Linux und Windows Support
1 - 256 vCPUs
1 - 2'024 GiB RAM
Live Migration, Snapshots

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GPU Server

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1 - 7 GPUs pro Server
1 - 128 vCPUs
1 - 1'024 GiB RAM

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Block Storage

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IOPS-optimised
NVMe SSDs, SATA SSDs, HDDs

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Managed Kubernetes
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Managed Backup

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cloud Hosting ist eine schnellere, stabilere und zuverlässigere Alternative zum Shared Hosting. Das Managed Cloud Hosting bietet im Vergleich zum herkömmlichen Webhosting eine 4-fach höhere Geschwindigkeit und 20-fach mehr Ressourcen. Außerdem ist es vollständig verwaltet – das heißt, wir kümmern uns um alle technischen Belange, damit Sie sich auf die Erweiterung Ihrer Projekte konzentrieren können. Es ist die perfekte Lösung für Website-Besitzer, die die Leistung und Stabilität eines virtuellen privaten Servers (VPS) suchen, ohne die Komplexität der Verwaltung eines solchen.

This depends on your expected amount of data. You can purchase additional storage at any time.

To create ed25519 SSH public/private key pair, you need OpenSSH 6.5 or newer. ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "name.surname@example.com" Die Ausgabe von ssh-keygen sieht in etwa wie folgt aus: Generating public/private ed25519 key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/steppingstone/.ssh/id_ed25519): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
Your identification has been saved in /home/steppingstone/.ssh/id_ed25519.
Your public key has been saved in /home/steppingstone/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:DpS2gFLsSAfCuoBjgf7UEsQY3lKrDbEpnOn+rIlg+6k name.surname@example.com
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ED25519 256]--+
|+=Bo |
|=*X=. . |
|B%+o+ + |
|O+*o = . |
|o=o.. o S |
|o . o |
|.o . |
|+ = . |
|.E+= |
+----[SHA256]-----+
RC=0 steppingstone@lale1202:~$ cat .ssh/id_ed25519.pub 
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAID5DuOj3fhVqQpeXTRa2Tf8OXm1OO9AmCKs312770odA name.surname@example.com

The first one mentioned uses decimal (SI) and the second one binary (IEC) unit prefixes. The actual sizes are shown in the table beneath.

DecimalBinary
SI unitMeaningIEC unitMeaning
Kilobyte (KB)1 000 ByteKibibyte (KiB)1 024 Byte
Megabyte1 000 000 ByteMebibyte (MiB)1 048 576 Byte
Gigabyte (GB)1 000 000 000 ByteGibibyte (GiB)1 073 741 824 Byte
Terabyte (TB)1 000 000 000 000 ByteTebibyte (TiB)1 099 511 627 776 Byte
Petabyte (PB)1 000 000 000 000 000 BytePebibyte (PiB)1 125 899 906 842 624 Byte
Exabyte (EB)1 000 000 000 000 000 000 ByteExbibyte (EiB)1 152 921 504 606 846 976 Byte

More information can be found on Wikipedia.

The bandwidth of stepping stone AG will be calculated with the 95%-rule.The 95%-rule is a common standard. 

Calculation of the 95%-rule

When you have ordered a bandwidth of 1 Megabit/s and are connected to a 100 Megabit/s line, the Committed Data Rate (CDR) is 1 Megabit/s with a burst rate of 100 Megabit/s. The Committed Data Rate will be invoiced independently of the usage, as this bandwidth is fixed reserved for you. The burst rate of 100 Megabit/s is “best effort” and will be invoiced according to the 95%-rule, which is calculated as follows: