Spring is finally creeping into Chicago and with it comes one of SingleHop’s most exciting announcements to date. Today, we officially announced our cloud hosting platform, Cascade.
While we must keep the details slim, we can assure you that what you love about your dedicated servers will not change, and what you yearn for in cloud computing will be a reality. We know this all sounds a bit too good to be true, yet our world-class technicians and engineers have created what we believe is the best combination of dedicated server technology and cloud hosting advantages. This blending, or “cascading†of technologies, to create something faster, more stable, and more capable is what we set out to do and have been able to accomplish.
At SingleHop we like skydiving a good bit. In fact, the majority of the company recently jumped out of a plane in celebration of growth last year. Earlier this year, we launched our breakthrough reseller system named Tandem, as in tandem skydiving. Today we take another cue from skydiving in naming “Cascadeâ€: when you blend two parachute lines into a stronger and more efficient one you are “cascading†the lines together. And when it comes to dedicated servers and cloud hosting, our new platform cascades both technologies into a more powerful, efficient, and effective solution.
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When a website becomes large enough to require a dedicated server, most administrators are quick to find a relatively priced server, and jump aboard. However personally, I’ve taken the time to look through multiple server providers; most of which have their own Data centers, and of course have been relatively impressed.
This time I’ve left the Dedicated Server for another time and given cloud computing a try. VPS.net run a powerful cloud private server system in which the user can buy ‘nodes’ for a price depending on the amount of nodes needed. The beauty in this is that I am able to change the amount of nodes i have at any time, without the sluggish delay of a normal VPS provider. For around $100, you can compete with many dedicated server options, while having the amazing backing of the VPS.net panel. Did i mention you can also move your services between the US and UK cloud?
At first i was a little weary about the Disk usage, most clouds run through a SAN disk array, meaning multiple servers would be connected to a storage server, which could perhaps be greatly overloaded. Thankfully it was not. And in fact was quite the opposite, with no I/O issues whatsoever. The actual system itself was not slow, and provided for whatever i needed, and is versatile enough for the developer.
I would definitely recommend VPS.net as a substitute to a Dedicated Server, especially for those with fluctuating services requiring different levels of ‘nodes’, also let it be known that the VPS.net nodes are extremely versatile and great for anyone with a project developing, or the hobbyist.
Edit: Received a few messages about the SAN used by vps.net, however i was referring to the speed and stability of the SAN, not the lack of one.
