What is Global Private Fabric?
The Global Private Fabric (GPF) is a powerful networking solution designed to unify your hosting infrastructure. It allows you to link your Bare Metal and Cloud servers across different geographies, bringing them all together under a single, secure private network fabric.
This advanced fabric enables seamless, private communication between all your environments without requiring you to manage complex VPNs or implement region-specific networking workarounds.
Overview
In this context, the term “fabric” refers to a modern network design or architecture. Think of it as weaving all your interconnected devices (like switches, routers, and servers) into one unified system. This approach creates a highly scalable, flexible, and redundant network that behaves as a single entity rather than just a collection of individual devices.
Features
The Global Private Fabric introduces several powerful capabilities:
- Unified Infrastructure: Securely link your Bare Metal and Cloud servers across various geographic regions.
- Seamless Communication: Environments can communicate privately and efficiently without needing customer-managed VPNs.
- Secure VPN Interconnects: You gain the ability to create secure VPN connections, enabling external environments—such as your remote offices or third-party cloud providers (e.g., AWS)—to securely access your private network.
- Flexible VPN Modes: VPNs support both Site-to-Site (with configurable direction) and Remote Access modes.
- Modern Authentication: We leverage strong, ECDSA-based key authentication via WireGuard for robust security.
- Centralized Management: All private fabric and VPN capabilities are managed entirely through portal.liquidweb.com. This provides a modern, intuitive, and self-service experience, giving you direct control over your network configuration.
- Legacy Compatibility: The legacy Cloud private networking system will remain available to ensure compatibility for existing setups.
Use Cases for the Global Private Fabric
The GPN’s flexibility unlocks many powerful use cases:
- Office-to-Cloud: A customer’s physical office can connect directly to their private Liquid Web-hosted infrastructure to securely access backend systems or applications.
- Hybrid Cloud: A customer running workloads on AWS (or another provider) can set up a secure tunnel to access data or services hosted on their Liquid Web infrastructure.
- Multi-Region Connectivity: You can configure VPNs in different regions, allowing users or services to connect to the nearest VPN endpoint to optimize latency and performance.
- Private Dev/Test Environments: Developers working remotely or in different environments can connect securely to test environments hosted at Liquid Web without requiring public IP access.
- Product Agnostic Connectivity: You can develop the right solution by combining Cloud VPS, Cloud Metal, Bare Metal, and Bare Metal GPU systems, all resting assured that they can speak with each other on a single private network.