GoDaddy Inc., a technology provider dedicated to small businesses, has expanded its hosting services to offer Cloud Servers and Bitnami-powered Cloud Applications. The new offerings are designed to help the individual developers, tech entrepreneurs and IT professionals to quickly build, test and scale cloud solutions.
With 54-second or less provisioning, virtual instances can be built, tested, cloned and re-provisioned almost instantly. Powered by a simple, yet powerful API and easy-to-use user interface, Cloud Servers provide developers complete control over their virtual instances and include concise in-app documentation.
Additionally, by featuring snapshots, users are allowed to save their configurations and launch new servers with that image in seconds, instead of starting from scratch.
The platform offers a “pay as you go” utility billing model and the flexibility to meet the needs of customers. They only pay for what they use on an hourly basis and up to a monthly limit if they choose.
GoDaddy Cloud Servers are integrated with GoDaddy products such as Domains and DNS, which allows customers to manage and maintain new and existing domains and subdomains. Additionally, Cloud Server customers have full access to multiple, public facing APIs. The new cloud offering from GoDaddy is available in 26 languages and 53 markets.
Bitnami Partnership
GoDaddy’s Cloud Applications are powered by Bitnami, the leading library for open source server application deployments. This partnership provides one-click optimized installation for application solutions like CMS (eg: WordPress and Drupal), CRM (eg: Odoo and OpenERP) and eCommerce (eg: OpenCart and Magento).
Built on OpenStack
Inline with GoDaddy’s commitment to open source software, the new Cloud Servers offering is built on OpenStack and powered by purpose-built KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization. With SSDs (solid-state drives) across the board, Cloud Servers offer excellent performance due to very fast I/O (Input/Output).
“With the launch of Cloud Servers, GoDaddy aims to extend our lead as the number one trusted provider of Cloud Hosting solutions for individual developers and technologists. We’re looking to make it easy for developers to serve small businesses with the technology they want,” said Jeff King, SVP & GM Hosting, Security at GoDaddy.“By offering a powerful, yet simple cloud offering that integrates domains, DNS, securityand backups all in one place, developers can save time and exceed their clients’ expectations.”
Additional Features
- Automatically backup your data without downtime to keep Cloud Server user data and configuration covered for piece of mind; 99.9% uptime is guaranteed.
- Servers remain in constant contact with each other with private networking, maintaining secure communications and protocols.
- Flexibly assign permanent IPs and multiple IP addresses to a single server with as many available as required.
- Supported distributions offered are Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 6 & 7, Fedora 23, Debian8, FreeBSD, CoreOS and Arch Linux.
The company says customers will be able to enjoy a 30-day free trial to fully experience the product features. The basic service starts at no more than SGD$ 7.99/month (SGD$0.0119 /hour) and includes 512MB memory, one core processor, 20GB SSD storage and 1TB data transfer.
Billing will begin once you provision your cloud server, and hourly billing based on actual usage will accrue up to the monthly limit for your cloud server selection.