The Web is Meant to be Open
Since Voxel was founded in 1999, we have firmly believed that open standards and open source were simply a 'better way' to power and build Internet infrastructure. To us, avoiding proprietary solutions has little to do with dollars and cents, and a lot to do with empowering our customers with choice and control.
If you bought a car only to find that you couldn't install the radio of your choice, and that neither you nor your mechanic could pop the hood, you'd probably be pretty perturbed. Why accept the same from the software that runs your business?
By supporting our customers with deep in-house knowledge of the leading open technologies, Voxel's solution stack tips the scale for customers in favor of unrestricted solutions. With open standards our customers can link their applications and services with greater ease and speed, using the tools that they want, on their terms. With open source they can see the code themselves, or have their vendor of choice customize or tweak it for their unique requirements.
It all Comes Down to Results
While the philosophical issues are interesting, they're not sufficient to explain Voxel's obsessive attitude about your infrastructure. We're 100% committed to powering your infrastructure in the most scalable and reliable fashion, regardless of the brand name (or lack thereof) on the software box.
Still, it's no surprise that the rise of open source and open standards has closely followed the rise of the Internet. Indeed, the Internet has enabled the best programmers around the world to create software -- from Linux to Apache to MySQL -- that is simply better, faster, and more scalable than the proprietary counterparts. We're there to tune, tweak, and support it as part of our managed hosting stack. With the combination of open technologies and Voxel's expertise, the results for our clients have been simply fantastic.
Linux - What's a Mascot doing on my Software?
Times have certainly changed. When Voxel first started in sleepy Troy, NY, we ran into resistance selling managed Linux solutions to Enterprise customers. The little penguin that could was viewed with distrust and confusion. However, 9 years and thousands of successful Linux deployments later, Voxel's managed Linux platform (dubbed the Voxel Server Environment) is known as a rock solid and high performance hosting platform. Startups to the largest multinationals power web infrastructure using Linux and enjoy:
- No more vendor lock-in.
- No more interoperability issues.
- Complete control.
- The best performance and scalability available, at any price.
- All supported, top to bottom, 24x7x365 by Voxel.