On-demand cloud servers |
Scalable Database Service (SDS) |
Storage |
Load balancing |
PAYG CDN |
DNS Services
Two types of On-demand Cloud Server
In terms of web hosting in general, CPU is typically one of the most under utilised resources - RAM and disk read/write speed are often more important considerations. In view of this, we have 2 types of CPU plan available:
Burstable CPU - suitable for most purposes
Fixed CPU - suitable for CPU Intensive applications such as video transcoding
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Burstable CPU |
Fixed CPU |
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Solaris |
Solaris, Windows, Linux |
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All non-Microsoft, e.g. Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, Python |
All inc. Microsoft, e.g. LAMP, ASP.NET |
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Web serving & low activity databases |
Web serving, low activity databases or CPU intensive applications |
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CPU intensive applications |
N/A |
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Some Server Configurations
All of our cloud servers come preconfigured and ready for use so that you don't have to do any work.
Examples of preconfigured environments available:
- AMP: Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, Exim
- Rails: Passenger, Ruby, Rails, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Exim
- Java: Tomcat, Java, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Exim
- Python: Apache, Python, Django, mod_wsgi, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Exim
- Python: Apache, Python, Django, mod_wsgi, nginx, memcached, MySQL
Examples of preconfigured application environments available:
- Wordpress: fully installed and running on the cloud
- Drupal: fully installed and running on the cloud
- Joomla: fully installed and running on the cloud
These are just some of our standard configurations. We support many other technologies, for instance:
PostgreSQL
NoSQL such as Cassandra and MongoDB
If you don't see what you're looking for,
get in touch to find out more
