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| Why Choose Mobile Reboot? |
 Hardware safe technology that won't damage your servers.
Competing remote reboot products operate effectively as controllable electrical outlets that "pull the plug" on your server to force it to reboot, thereby inducing a power surge that can seriously damage the fragile internal server components. Specifically, hard drives are extremely sensitive to power surges, and can easily become damaged, resulting in data loss that further complicates the initial server crash you were trying to fix.
Unlike "pulling the plug," the MobileReboot includes patent-pending hardware safe technology to send a reset signal to the computer's processor(s) in the same fashion as if you had pressed the "reset" switch on the front of the server. This technique maintains power to the fragile internal components, including the hard drives, while providing a full reboot of the processor(s) to get the server back up and running. |
Cost-effective large-scale deployments.
Remote reboot products that "pull the plug" to reboot servers also suffer from another critical design flaw: power supply limitations that can reduce the number of usable remote reboot ports from the advertised 8 or 16 ports, down to 4 or fewer ports. Since these devices provide power to the connected servers, they must operate within strict electrical limits. A typical 8-port controllable outlet will indeed provide electrical outlets for 8 devices, but due to power limitations, this device will only be able to provide power for up to 4 high-power servers, reducing the effective number of servers that can be connected to each "pull the plug" style remote reboot unit in half, thus doubling the number of expected remote reboot units that you would be required to purchase.
Even loading 8 low-power servers on a single device may work initially, but under high-load conditions when the servers require additional power, the circuit breaker inside the remote reboot device will trip, disabling all 8 connected servers until a technician manually resets the circuit breaker; a true catastrophe for a product that is intended to increase server uptime.
The MobileReboot, however, does not source power to your servers, and thus does not suffer from this limitation. An 8-port MobileReboot will remotely reboot 8 low-power Intel™ Celeron™ servers just as well as 8 high-power quad Intel™ Itanium™ servers, regardless of server load. Accordingly, you'll maximize cost-effectiveness for large-scale deployments by not purchasing additional remote reboot capacity that you cannot use. |
Multiple user support... right out of the box.
It is completely infeasible to purchase a separate remote reboot product for each and every hosting client you have. To counter this problem, we developed multiple user support for the MobileReboot that allows you to assign user accounts and permissions for the remote reboot ports. Each MobileReboot supports up to eight user accounts, in addition to the administrator account, for you to assign. |
Comparison Table
| Description |
Mobile Reboot |
Conventional |
| Reboot Type |
True Reset (Hardware Safe) |
Cycle Power |
| Access Method |
Web |
Web |
| Multi-user Support |
Yes |
No |
| Reboot Ports |
8 full ports |
4 to 8 ports |
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