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 | Fixed CPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Available on | Solaris | Solaris, Windows, Linux |
| Technologies | All non-Microsoft, e.g. Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, Python | All inc. Microsoft, e.g. LAMP, ASP.NET |
| Suitable for | Web serving & low activity databases | Web serving, low activity databases or CPU intensive applications |
| Not Suitable for | CPU intensive applications | N/A |
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
- 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: