A demo video shows the creation of a Jelastic environment
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Java platform as a service offering Jelastic (www.jelastic.com) announced on Wednesday that it has built the popular open-source web server NGINX (www.nginx.com) into its platform to provide customers with better performance and efficiency.
Running NGINX will require no additional deployment or configuration work by users, says Jelastic, and offers built-in load balancing and caching in a system designed around the needs of the hosting environment. The announcement calls NGINX “the fastest web server in the world,” pointing to its efficiency and scalability as key reasons for its rapid growth – the software now has 8.5 percent of the web server market.
“Our customers need a Java cloud computing platform that creates the highest level of availability and efficiency for their applications,” says Ruslan Synytsky, CEO of Jelastic, quoted in the press release. “Adding NGINX as part of our technology stack provides those capabilities.”
Jelastic enables developers to get Java applications onto a cloud hosting environment in minutes, without requiring changes to code, or writing to specific APIs, says the company. The product has been in beta since mid-2011, and now has more than 1,500 developers registered and more than 1,000 applications deployed, according to the press release.
The platform supports a long list of JVMs, SQL and non-SQL databases, application servers and other developer tools. Free trials of the platform can currently be had by signing up at the Jelastic website.
Detailed information on the operation and use of the Jelastic platform is available on the company’s website.
Notably, for the hosting community, Jelastic’s model would have it distributing its services through a network of hosting providers – a network that currently includes Host Europe in Europe and ServInt in the United States.
Igor Syosev, author of NGINX, is one of the advisors to Jelastic. The announcement quotes him as excited about the opportunity the partnership creates for NGINX and for Java developers.
Other advisors at Jelastic include several partners at Serguei Beloussov’s Runa Capital, including Beloussov himself, who mentioned both NGINX and Jelastic during a presentation at HostingCon this summer. NGINX is a “portfolio company” of Runa’s, which would also seem to have some interest in Jelastic, although there is no explicit indication of that on either company’s website.
About Liam Eagle
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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