Daily Archives: March 9, 2013

Jelastic, Inc., today announced the launch of a major new version of its ultra-scalable and interoperable Java and PHP cloud hosting platform. The new version, Jelastic 1.9, features a flexible new pricing model, FTP support, caching in NGINX and the latest versions of software stacks (including TomEE and MariaDB 10.0.0).”

Version 1.9 builds on the formidable strengths of the globally available and widely recognized Jelastic PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) platform. The platform, initially launched in October 2011, has more than 40,000 users, and is being offered by hosting partners in the United States, UK, Brazil, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Japan. It has won the highest Java prize, the Duke’s Choice Award from Oracle, due to its fundamentally new approach to cloud hosting of Java applications.

While other platforms impose limitations on developers by forcing them to code to specific APIs and adapt their applications to various constraints, Jelastic maximizes convenience for its users. Uploading and deploying an app on Jelastic takes only a few minutes, since the platform is standards-based and can run virtually any Java or PHP application without any code changes.

Moreover, Jelastic can automatically scale any application. As soon as an application’s load grows, the platform simply makes additional resources available to it. When the load goes down again, the platform reduces the resources.

“Today Jelastic is introducing a significant update with a revolutionary pricing model which was explicitly designed for production applications and for large scaling,” said Jelastic CEO Ruslan Synytsky. “We have added major discounts for reserved resources, as well as discounts for volume usage. These discounts allow developers to host their production apps at a reasonable price. We have also added support of new software stacks such as TomEE 1.5 and MariaDB 10. These projects are extremely innovative, and Jelastic is the only PaaS to drive these kinds of innovations to the community. And we allow developers to test these great products in just a few clicks.” http://jelastic.com

UK web hosting company eUKhost Ltd., a leading provider of shared, reseller, cloud and other personal and enterprise hosting solutions, announced the launch of Build a Website – a complete website hosting solution with a simple, feature-rich integrated website builder aimed at consumers that would like to create their own website without the often-associated expense and complexity.

The company markets Build a Website as a “strong response to the increasing consumer demand for complete hosting solutions” simple enough for average computer users to create robust and professional looking websites. Similar solutions from other UK providers often require customers to commit to a minimum term contract. Robert King, Founder & Director, emphasised that “consumers do not like to be locked into time-bound contracts” and describes it as a “walled approach” to these kinds of hosting solutions.

The integrated website builder included with Build a Website has over 100 website topics to choose from. Each website topic has a different colour scheme, layout and pre-defined structure most suited to the kind of website topic a user may select. “Once you have selected a website topic, there are over 80 different pre-created colour schemes you can switch between,” King explained. “Customers can also mix and match, and create their own colour schemes if they prefer.”

Every change to the colour, appearance, structure and presentation of the website which are made are displayed in real-time within the website builder. “What the customer sees in the website builder is what visitors will see when the website is published,” King explained, adding, “all websites which are created through the website builder conform to the latest web standards and work great across all Internet web browsers.”

eUKhost provide an online user guide so customers can become familiar with how the website builder works.

As well as the included website builder, eUKhost are incorporating some additional free utilities with the product – one of which being a software autoinstaller called Softaculous allowing users to install a wide-range of web applications they may want on their website.

“Softaculous is used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, and is an easy-to-use repository of common website software a user may want to use on their website. The website builder does include some built-in modules like blogging, commenting and online stores. Customers can use Softaculous to install hundreds of different web applications that they may want to use on their website – forums, wikis, guestbooks, polls and surveys – and much more,” John Strong, Managing Director, explained.
Build a Website is available starting today at £3.49 per month and includes one free website address.

SingHost announced that they would be planning for a full-day conference in 2013. Fred Goh spoke briefly about the nature of the conference, and stipulated that it would be centered on the latest web hosting trends going forward, and what kind of technologies and changes we can expect to find regarding web hosting as we enter 2013.

“The web hosting industry as we know it is changing. As a leader of web hosting services, we understand that change is inevitable, and that it is critical that we know what is it that we’re facing. Most of our clients are looking towards newer technologies that give them the edge in today’s fast-paced digital world. Even bloggers, on topics such as fashion, automobiles, or Singapore stocks, are looking at products such as cloud hosting. Moving forward, we have several new products planned around a central group of technologies that we’re planning to implement in our infrastructure. These are exciting changes, and we’d like our clients to know that we’re always having their best interests at heart.”

SingHost is a company that provides shared hosting, dedicated servers, as well as VPS hosting packages to a large group of customers all over the world. They have one of the best data center facilities in Singapore. Moreover, SingHost has been recognized a number of times for the excellent support that they have and continue to provide to their customers.

Godaddy is providing web hosting services for a starting price of $2.99 per month only. The customers get 100 GB space, unlimited bandwidth, 100 email accounts and 10 MYSQL databases.

There is no long-term contract needed. A customer needs to sign up for a minimum of 3 months to get this amazing deal.