---
title: "What is Global Private Fabric?"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/hosting-services/global-private-fabric/what-is-global-private-fabric/"
description: "Learn about the Global Private Fabric (GPF). Securely link Bare Metal and Cloud servers globally on one private network, enabling hybrid cloud and VPNs."
vertical: "Hosting"
date: "2025-11-13"
last_modified: "2026-07-02"
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# 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.

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## 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.

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## 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](https://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](https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/hosting-services/cloud-vps/cloud-private-network/) 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.

## Related Articles

- [Create a Global Private Fabric](https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/hosting-services/global-private-fabric/create-a-global-private-fabric/)
- [Add Servers to a Global Private Fabric](https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/hosting-services/global-private-fabric/add-servers-to-a-global-private-fabric/)
- [Create VPN for Global Private Fabric](https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/hosting-services/global-private-fabric/create-vpn/)