Cloud
  • icon_package_cloud_startup
    Start-up
    • Specially tailored to the requirements of business start-ups
    • Lowest possible operating costs
    • Self-healing architecture
    • Flat rate support inclusive
    • Monitoring inclusive
    • Amazon EC2 powered
  • icon_package_cloud_fix_price
    Fixed price
    • Adapts to the load situation
    • Copes with peaks
    • Offers financial security
    • Self-healing architecture
    • Flat rate support inclusive
    • Monitoring inclusive
    • Amazon EC2 powered
  • icon_package_cloud_on_demand
    On Demand
    • Adapts to the load situation
    • Grows in every dimension
    • Ready to scale up to deal with big peaks
    • Pay per use
    • Self-healing architecture
    • Flat rate support inclusive
    • Monitoring inclusive
    • Amazon EC2 powered

Cloud solutions hold out the prospect of maximum flexibility. On the basis of comprehensive automated installation, you can adjust the scale of your Ruby on Rails hosting infrastructure to your situation by shrinking or growing it. This also means that the warm-up times for providing additional capacity is unbeatably short.

The running costs in a cloud environment are higher than in a physical environment due to the additional abstraction level. Even so it is still possible to save with a cloud solution. For example, running costs can be cut be avoiding idle-running servers. Underused servers are simply shutdown, the size of the hosting system is adjusted. The running costs are measured to the nearest hour and reduced by the shutdown of unused capacity.

The increased expenditure for the complete automation of these installation routines and the increased operating hour rates is especially worthwhile if an application has to cope with foreseeable peak loads and the difference between the basic and peak loads is very big.

 

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