EveryCity Managed Hosting Launches Commit + Burst Payment Model
Business hosting provider EveryCity is now offering a commit + burst payment model on its cloud platform.
London, United Kingdom, October 16, 2010 --(PR.com)-- London based business hosting provider EveryCity is now offering a commit + burst payment model on its cloud platform.
According to Jon Slater, Business Development Director at EveryCity, “The idea of commit and burst isn’t anything new – bandwidth, for instance, has always been billed in this way. It’s just that with the advent of cloud computing, we are now able to extend this model to all computing resources, such as CPU, RAM and disk space.
“The idea is that our clients will now be able to benefit from the best parts of cloud computing and the best parts of managed hosting. You pay for a ‘baseline’ hosting platform with us, which we invoice on a monthly basis as usual. This represents the minimum setup required to run your site under normal circumstances. However, if you need to burst beyond this, you simply pay for the spikes on an hourly basis.”
Slater observes that his customers’ requirements for a managed hosting service are often at odds with their requirements for flexibility: “What we’ve found is that with many UK hosting providers, the more a service is managed, typically the less elastic it is – both in terms of billing and burstability; conversely, the reverse is true – the more elastic, the less managed.
“For less technical, or busier, clients, spinning up and managing cloud instances themselves isn’t really an option. And for certain traffic profiles, where traffic can burst very quickly and unexpectedly, you wouldn’t be able to spin up new instances quickly enough anyway. This is where we can come in. We set you up with all the capacity you need right from the outset - however, you only pay for the excess when you actually burst into it. It’s the best of both worlds.”
This could be good news for those trying to manage unpredictable traffic patterns, such as digital agencies running promotional campaigns, companies with seasonal bursts in traffic, sites for events like concerts and festivals and media companies with sites relating to popular reality TV shows.
EveryCity offers Solaris hosting, as well as Windows and Linux.
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According to Jon Slater, Business Development Director at EveryCity, “The idea of commit and burst isn’t anything new – bandwidth, for instance, has always been billed in this way. It’s just that with the advent of cloud computing, we are now able to extend this model to all computing resources, such as CPU, RAM and disk space.
“The idea is that our clients will now be able to benefit from the best parts of cloud computing and the best parts of managed hosting. You pay for a ‘baseline’ hosting platform with us, which we invoice on a monthly basis as usual. This represents the minimum setup required to run your site under normal circumstances. However, if you need to burst beyond this, you simply pay for the spikes on an hourly basis.”
Slater observes that his customers’ requirements for a managed hosting service are often at odds with their requirements for flexibility: “What we’ve found is that with many UK hosting providers, the more a service is managed, typically the less elastic it is – both in terms of billing and burstability; conversely, the reverse is true – the more elastic, the less managed.
“For less technical, or busier, clients, spinning up and managing cloud instances themselves isn’t really an option. And for certain traffic profiles, where traffic can burst very quickly and unexpectedly, you wouldn’t be able to spin up new instances quickly enough anyway. This is where we can come in. We set you up with all the capacity you need right from the outset - however, you only pay for the excess when you actually burst into it. It’s the best of both worlds.”
This could be good news for those trying to manage unpredictable traffic patterns, such as digital agencies running promotional campaigns, companies with seasonal bursts in traffic, sites for events like concerts and festivals and media companies with sites relating to popular reality TV shows.
EveryCity offers Solaris hosting, as well as Windows and Linux.
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Jon Slater
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www.everycity.co.uk
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+44 (0)20 7183 2804
www.everycity.co.uk
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