Private Cloud Switzerland the server solution with performance no public cloud reaches.
Your virtual servers and services in our two geo-redundant datacenters in Zurich City and Zurich Ruemlang. Highest performance and availability, lowest latency, aligned with the FINMA circulars, operated by a Swiss team with 17 years of provider experience.
Public cloud promises scale, until the latency and the egress bill arrive.
Private cloud delivers performance and predictability, from Switzerland, from day one.
Six properties we never promise without delivering them.
Dedicated infrastructure
Your vServers run on our high-availability clusters with enterprise NVMe and current AMD and Intel CPUs. No noisy neighbour effect, predictable performance.
Geo-redundant in Switzerland
Two own datacenters in Zurich City and Ruemlang, linked by dark fibre, continuously replicated. If one site fails, the other keeps running.
Swiss law, end to end
Data, backups, logs and support remain in Switzerland. No CLOUD Act, no Schrems II, no foreign authority access. Contractually guaranteed.
Security included
State-of-the-art firewall, always-on DDoS protection, high-performance VPN with up to 20 Gbps throughput and encrypted backups are part of it, not an upsell.
Engineering that picks up
Swiss engineers run the platform, know your setup and are directly reachable when things go wrong. No first-level tier, no overseas hold music.
Fixed monthly price
You pay a fixed monthly price, no egress fees, no surprise bills. Scaling up or down is possible at any time, billed transparently.
Configurable, everything transparent.
| vCPU per vServer | 1 – 32 |
| Memory per vServer | 1 – 512 GB DDR ECC |
| CPU platform | AMD EPYC · Intel Xeon |
| Hypervisor | VMware vSphere · Proxmox VE |
| Hot migration | live, with no downtime for the VM |
| Scaling | CPU, RAM and storage adjustable dynamically at any time |
| Block storage | Enterprise NVMe all-flash, redundant |
| Snapshots | hourly snapshots of the entire vServer |
| Backup | hourly, encrypted, 6-month retention |
| Recovery | RPO < 60 min · RTO < 15 min |
| Off-site | geo-redundant replication to the second datacenter |
| Encryption | AES-256 · customer-managed keys on request |
| Uplinks | redundant, sized for traffic spikes |
| Traffic | unlimited · no egress fees |
| Latency within CH | < 1 ms (ZRH-01 ↔ ZRH-02) |
| Peering | SwissIX |
| Autonomous system | AS49489 · RPKI signed |
| DDoS protection | always-on, no bandwidth limit for you |
| Firewall | state-of-the-art, multi-tenant capable |
| VPN | up to 20 Gbps throughput, IPsec & WireGuard |
Designed for regulated industries and cautious SMBs alike.
Our platform is aligned with the recommendations and circulars of FINMA and operated according to ISO 27001 processes. We provide the audit trails you need for your internal control framework or an external auditor, so your compliance people sleep well.
- Data location and legal venue contractually limited to Switzerland.
- Logical and physical tenant separation as standard, at no extra cost.
- Auditable access and activity logs, retained long-term.
- Biometric DC access, logged and CCTV-monitored.
- Encrypted backups, replicated to the second DC at least 10 km away.
What pairs well with the private cloud.
Backup
3-2-1 backup with Veeam, geo-redundant into the second datacenter. Quarterly restore tests, at no extra cost.
Server & storage
If you need dedicated bare-metal nodes or your own storage instead of vServers, we combine both seamlessly.
Housing
Mix your own hardware with our platform. Your rack next to our private cloud, same network, same engineers.
Firewall & VPN
Dedicated firewall clusters and site-to-site VPNs to your locations, home-office connectivity via IPsec or WireGuard.
E-mail security
Anti-phishing, anti-spam, tamper-proof archiving, in front of Microsoft 365 or as a standalone solution.
Full IT outsourcing
If the private cloud should be just one part: we also take over your clients, helpdesk, network and security.
Two Swiss datacenters. Both ours.
We do not resell anyone else's cloud. Our sites ZRH-01 in Zurich City and ZRH-02 in Zurich Ruemlang are Tier IV compliant, geo-redundantly connected and operated around the clock by Swiss engineers on site. Your data does not leave Switzerland.
What a typical ClearMedia topology looks like.
ClearMedia Private Cloud vs. public hyperscaler.
| Criterion | ClearMedia Private Cloud | Public hyperscaler |
|---|---|---|
| Latency to your Swiss end users | < 5 ms typical | often 20–50 ms, region-dependent |
| Per-vCPU performance | dedicated cores, stable | shared, with drift |
| Data location 100 % Switzerland, contractual | region choice, not guaranteed | |
| Swiss law, no CLOUD Act | US / EU law | |
| Egress / traffic cost | none | $0.08–0.12/GB |
| Support: Swiss engineer on the phone | ✓ direct | premium support costs extra |
| Escalation to platform engineering | direct, no ticket loops | hours to days |
| Fixed monthly price, no surprise bill | pay-per-use, hard to budget |
From first call to production, four steps.
Workshop
One to two hours with an engineer, on site or remote. Current state, requirements and sizing, no sales pressure.
Sizing & quote
Topology, vCPU/RAM/storage and compliance cleanly mapped, written quote with a fixed monthly price, no asterisks.
Provisioning
vServers, network, firewall, VPN and backup set up. You test in parallel, we document along the way.
Migration & go-live
Migration in your maintenance window from your current environment. We support the cutover and stay close after.
Three typical setups, every configuration individual.
Compact
Entry setup for SMBs with 5–20 employees. Enough headroom to grow at your own pace.
- 2–4 vServers · 2–8 vCPU each · 8–32 GB RAM
- NVMe storage · hourly snapshots
- Hourly geo-redundant backup
- Always-on DDoS protection · firewall
- Swiss support during business hours
Standard
Most common tier for established SMBs with their own applications, file servers and domain services.
- 4–8 vServers · 4–16 vCPU each · 32–128 GB RAM
- Geo-redundant replication ZRH-01 ↔ ZRH-02
- High-performance VPN up to 20 Gbps
- Encrypted off-site backups
- A direct engineer as your contact
Demanding
For workloads with high requirements on performance, availability or compliance, e.g. ERP, DB clusters, industry-specific applications.
- Up to 32 vCPU · 512 GB RAM per vServer
- Dedicated network & firewall segment
- Customer-key encryption on request
- Extended audit trails for FINMA / ISMS
- Defined engineering escalation path
“Finally servers that are faster than our old ones, and that sit in Switzerland.”
We had three hard requirements: data exclusively in Switzerland, a direct contact with an IT background, and a fixed monthly price with no egress surprises. ClearMedia was the only offer that signed all three points without an asterisk.
Why Swiss SMBs move their servers into our private cloud.
A private cloud is a dedicated, virtualised server environment used exclusively by a single organisation. Unlike a public cloud, your virtual servers, data and backups do not sit on a globally distributed, shared platform but on infrastructure operated for you, in our two Swiss datacenters in Zurich City and Zurich Ruemlang.
As a Swiss managed service provider with our own cloud platform, we operate this infrastructure ourselves, end to end. That means: we build the servers, run the network under our own AS49489, manage the firewalls, take care of the backups, and pick up the phone when you have a question. We do not resell a hyperscaler\'s cloud.
When is a private cloud the better choice over public cloud?
Public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is great for highly scalable, globally distributed workloads. For classic SMB workloads, i.e. ERP, file servers, domain controllers, industry-specific applications, mail and databases, a Swiss private cloud is usually significantly better:
- Performance and latency: Your servers are physically in Zurich, and so are your employees. Latency is just a few milliseconds, not 20 to 50 like a public-cloud region abroad. Every user notices, every day.
- Predictability: You pay a fixed monthly price, regardless of how much data you transfer or how often you restore backups. Public cloud charges egress per gigabyte, often only visible on the quarterly bill.
- Swiss law, end to end: Data location, operations, support and backups remain in Switzerland. No US CLOUD Act, no Schrems II risk, no foreign authority access. For regulated industries (finance, fiduciary, legal, healthcare) this is often simply a baseline requirement.
- A direct contact: Your engineer knows your setup, answers the phone and escalates internally. No ticket system with robotic replies and tiered escalations.
Who is our private cloud designed for?
Typically for SMBs with 5 to 50 employees in the greater Zurich area, who are retiring their own server infrastructure or moving from another provider. Common triggers: an in-house server room is being shut down, public cloud has become too expensive or too slow, compliance requirements no longer allow hyperscalers, or the next hardware refresh is coming up and the investment no longer makes sense. In all these cases, moving into our private cloud is often the most economical and safest option.
We support Windows, Linux and macOS equally well, one of our specialties. We accompany the migration end to end, without weekend downtime, and we are available afterwards as your single point of contact for your entire IT, if you wish.
Often asked before the first call.
For SMBs that want to run their server infrastructure professionally, securely and predictably, without the overhead of an in-house public-cloud strategy. Typically companies with 5 to 50 employees in the greater Zurich area, often in finance, fiduciary, legal, healthcare, industry or trade. We also support smaller and larger companies, but this is the sweet spot.
Yes. vCPU, memory and storage can be adjusted dynamically at any time, in both directions. You pay for what you actually use, with a fixed monthly price per configuration and no hidden egress tariffs.
In our two own, geo-redundant datacenters ZRH-01 in Zurich City and ZRH-02 in Zurich Ruemlang. Both are Tier IV compliant, run on ISO 27001 certified processes, with biometric access, CCTV, redundant power and cooling, and 24/7 Swiss engineers on site.
Windows, Linux and macOS-based workloads, supported equally. We run Windows Server, Active Directory, RDS, all common Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, Rocky) as well as container platforms with Docker or Kubernetes.
On request VMware vSphere or Proxmox VE. We use both in production, you pick, or let us mix them.
Continuous replication between ZRH-01 and ZRH-02 keeps the second site warm. If one site goes down, your environment keeps running in the other, with an RPO under 60 minutes and an RTO under 15 minutes, contractually assured.
No. Data, backups, support, engineering and legal venue remain in Switzerland. No CLOUD Act, no Schrems II concern, no foreign authority access.
Our platform is aligned with the recommendations and circulars of FINMA and runs on ISO 27001 processes. We provide auditable logs and access records that you can use for your internal control framework or an external auditor.
We do not publish price lists, because every setup is individual. After a workshop we send you a written quote with a fixed monthly price, no hidden egress or surprise fees. The one-time investment is usually limited to replacing your old servers.
Yes, regardless of whether you run Windows, Linux or macOS-based servers today, on premises or already in another cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). We plan the migration so that there is no weekend downtime and no data loss.
Shall we talk for 30 minutes?
A consultation with a senior engineer who understands your setup. No slides, no discovery loop. You bring your situation, we bring concrete answers.