A screenshot of ElasticHosts' interface
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud infrastructure provider ElasticHosts announced on Monday it has expanded further into North America with the opening of two new data center locations in Los Angeles and Toronto.
The move comes a few months after ElasticHosts released version 2 of its cloud software platform. The two new locations adds to ElasticHosts’ existing locations in London, UK and San Antonio, Texas.
With a central, east and west coast presence sitting alongside London, ElasticHosts will now be able to provide its elastic, pay-as-you-go cloud hosting to customers across North America.
ElasticHost’s hosting service lets businesses leverage on-demand, scalable cloud servers, with capacity billed by the hour to ensure that they only pay for what they use.
The user interface has been designed to suit all levels of IT expertise to simplify user experience and allow organizations to instantly create, increase or decrease computing capacity.
Customers can also scale their CPU, RAM and disk space independently to whatever sizes they need, rather than trying to match these needs to a set of pre-defined hosting packages.
“In the current economic climate, businesses are under pressure to reduce costs,” said Richard Davies, CEO at ElasticHosts. “As such, IT spend is under increasing scrutiny and businesses need to justify any outgoings. For too long they have been overpaying for unnecessary server capacity because they were tied to fixed term, pay monthly contracts. The cloud hosting we provide lets businesses bypass this issue by letting them scale up and down, with costs instantly reflecting any changes. In addition, our goal is to offer scalable cloud computing but without the complexity often seen with this kind of solution. The benefits of cloud – costs savings and improved efficiency – are attractive to people of all levels of IT expertise, and cloud hosting should therefore be designed to suit this wide range of IT skill sets.”
With multiple data centers across North America, customers have the flexibility to choose where to locate their websites or applications to ensure their users get the best possible experience.
Where there is a geographically diverse set of users, organizations can mirror and load balance their websites and application across multiple ElasticHosts data centers while still benefiting from the on demand model.
By offering a data center in Canada, ElasticHosts can provide North American cloud hosting that does not fall under the US Patriot Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act or the forthcoming Stop Online Piracy Act.
This means that Canadian and European businesses which do not want to operate in US jurisdiction can still benefit from North American cloud servers with fast network connectivity to US and Canadian markets.
To mark its US launch, ElasticHosts is currently offering a 5-day free trial to businesses, and after that period prices will start from $0.06 per hour, or $44 per month.
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Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of web hosting and IT-related issues facing the industry on the WHIR website, as well the print version of the WHIR magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Justin_theWHIR.
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