What Are the Options for Private Networking and Interconnects?

Yes, NovoServe offers several options for creating secure, private connections between your dedicated servers. The best solution depends on the physical location of your servers.

Whether you need a virtualized private layer (private VLAN) or a direct physical wire between machines, we provide the infrastructure to keep your internal "East-West" traffic secure and cost-effective.

 1. Private VLAN (Multiple Racks or Data Centers) 

The PVLAN is our most flexible networking solution. It creates a logically isolated private network between your servers using a second network interface.

  • Unmetered Data Transfer: Traffic on the PVLAN is an unmetered option. You can move unlimited data between your servers without affecting your public bandwidth quota and incurring no additional costs. This is the gold standard for database clusters, internal APIs, and storage replication.
  • Logical Isolation: Your traffic remains entirely off the public internet, providing a secure environment for sensitive backend communications.
  • Geographic Flexibility: PVLANs can be established between any of your NovoServe servers, regardless of whether they are in the same rack or across different data centers.
  • How it works: We configure a private virtual LAN (VLAN) for your servers. This logically isolates your traffic from the public internet and other customers, allowing your servers to communicate securely as if they were on the same local network.

 2. Direct Physical Interconnect (Same Rack) 

For users who require the absolute minimum latency and maximum physical security, we offer Direct Physical Interconnects.

  • Hardware-to-Hardware: Your servers must be located within the same physical rack in one of our data centers. We establish a direct physical cable connection between the network ports of your devices, establishing a completely private and isolated link.

  • Dedicated Infrastructure: This option is ideal for high-performance computing (HPC) or deployments where you require a physically isolated pipe. 

In certain complex scenarios such as a large-scale project, a dedicated private switch may be required to facilitate your private networking needs. This would be determined during a technical consultation and would result in an additional monthly fee.

If you would like to set up a private VLAN or discuss the best interconnect strategy for your dedicated server project, our sales representatives are ready to help. Please contact our sales team for a personal consultation.

About the author

Sjoerd van Groning

Sjoerd van Groning brings a multidisciplinary technical background to his role as Product Manager at NovoServe. With deep experience spanning network architecture, server infrastructure, and application hosting (including previous leadership at software firm Phusion), Sjoerd understands the full IT stackโ€”from the physical fiber layer to the application runtime. His expertise lies in translating complex operational requirements into robust hardware designs, ensuring that bare metal configurations are engineered to support specific software workloads. Sjoerd focuses on the intersection of engineering constraints and system performance, designing infrastructure that is technically sound and built for scale.