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CommentsChief Architect/Founder, cloudAPPy.
cloudAPPy is a Drag-and-drop hosting cloud service foreasy deployment of applications in a load-balancedhigh availability environment. The service cuts down deployment time byproviding an advanced easy-to-use web control, that with a drag of themouse, enables users to quickly deploy applications to load-balanced clusters ofapplication servers.
Please tell us about yourself, and how you gotinvolved with cloudAPP.
After being involved with application hosting at variouslevels, Cloud services was a natural progression or extension of our corecompetencies.
Because in the end, it is all about providing the finestquality of service through technology.
Cloud hosting is essentially web hosting 5.0.
How would you describe the service to a non-technicalaudience?
cloudAPPy delivers always-on web presence with theability to seamlessly scale as traffic grows without needing to hire IT staff.
What kinds of clients do you target? What level oftechnical competence does using cloudAPPy require?
Developers with the skill-set to develop standards basedapplications.
Our service is designed for those same developers looking for anaffordable cloud solution and who do not have the time and resources to spendon setting up and managing high availability load-balanced infrastructure likethe bigger guys.
What were the greatest challenges in developing theservice?
Coming up with a solution that would work across multipletechnologies and yet satisfy the core value preposition. This required variouscompromises.
In order for the cloudAPPy service to work for various programminglanguages and frameworks, it had to be generic and heterogeneous enough tominimize the steps required to deploy and manage applications in ahigh-availability environment.
How does a small company plan to compete in a marketwhere large companies are also developing their own cloud computing offerings?What are your selling points?
Well if you look at the Cloud landscape, most of the topplayers are Cloud infrastructure providers.
In fact our service is Cloud infrastructure agnostic.That is depending on customer preference, they can specify their application bedeployed at clouds residing on Amazon EC2 or GoGrid.
There are few players at the application cloud layer(otherwise known as hosting cloud).
Even so, they have a lot to be desired in terms oftechnology, process and price.
We offer true Load-balancing, that includessticky-session support, most other hosting cloud providers only provide passiveload-balancing or DNS based round-robin. Our drag-and-drop cloud manager enables an easier deploymentand management environment.
Our cloud manager automates many of the steps required toget up and running in a Cloud environment.
Our pricing starts at $20 per month, which is a fractionof the cost of other providers.
In addition database support includes RDBMS based on openstandards such as ANSI SQL.
This ensures that our customers applications are not tiedto any proprietary system, thus creating a portability environment that wouldallow customers to move their applications elsewhere.
We allow our customers to deploy multiple applicationsand domains.
Other providers restrict customers to 1 application ordomain per account.
What website and web application technologies doescloudAPPy support?
We provide high performance hosting technologies forapplications developed with JAVA, RAILS, and PHP programming languages.Back-ended by MySQL database clusters.
And Load balanced by Apache (mod_proxy).
Customers applications are run under private virtualmachines (PVM). The PVMs loads the applications into its own memory space forfaster performance.
What we expect from cloudAPPy in the coming months?
The ability to seamlessly move over to another cloudinfrastructure either completely or partially.
The ability to split services across multiple cloudscreate an extra level of reliability in case of disasters. Also otherprogramming language support, such as python.
Finally, what are your recommendations to peoplelooking to host their website or application in the cloud?
Portable and database agnostic applications will easilyintegrate into hosting clouds.
The hosting cloud should be compatible with standardapplications. That is no proprietary database or programming API.
On the design side, applications should follow properdesign patterns as it is even more critical in a cloud environment.
Dynamic content should be database driven instead of diskor file driven . There should be no hard coded references to applicationresources, such as database or disk access because in a cloud the applicationmay be distributed anywhere within the cloud.
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