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High Performance Cloud Hosting
What?
Take the functions of normal websites — web, email, databases — and transparently spread them across a large number of servers, aka "the cloud". They all work the same as always, but under the hood they are faster and more reliable. Learn more.
Why?
Three reasons: performance, reliability and cost. Cloud hosting offers enterprise-level benefits, but for a fraction of the headaches and cost. No matter how you look at it, cloud hosting gets you more bang for your buck. Learn more.
How?
Configuring and ordering your own customized cloud hosting is a quick and painless process. In just a few minutes you can be up and running, using common tools built on CentOS Linux 5. Learn more.
What is Cloud Hosting?
Cloud Hosting allows us to take a big bunch of hardware, make it look like one big piece of hardware ("the cloud"), and run virtual servers within the cloud. Using 3tera's AppLogic virtualization software, you get multiple servers working transparently behind the scenes to provide the horsepower to run your site.
It's like a vacation timeshare, where you get the use of a much larger piece of property without having to pay full price for that property. Unlike a vacation timeshare, you're guaranteed to be able to use your space whenever you need it, not just whenever it happens to be available. We're not going to stick you with that "October week during rainy season" timeshare; it's always sunny with Agathon Group Cloud Hosting.
Why is Cloud Hosting a better option?
Most organizations follow the same pattern. When their site starts, it resides on a shared hosting service. As it grows, it needs its own server, and then in many cases multiple servers to handle the increased traffic. Each of those growth steps involve costly hardware purchases and increasingly specialized staff to babysit them.
With Cloud Hosting, the growing pains are eliminated. Even with the smallest Cloud Hosting package, your site is spread out across our large cloud of servers. As your needs grow, we simply dedicate more of that cloud for your use and you've increased capacity in minutes, without expensive hardware or new staff hires.
The power of a dedicated server, the reliability and scalability of a farm of servers, the cost of a shared server. Good, fast, cheap: pick three.
How do I use it?
When you get your cloud server, you'll have everything you need to upload a web site, set up email, etc. It's a little more work than setting up a shared account at some of those megahosting companies, but don't worry: we'll send you web pages with all of the information you need. Plus, we're only ever a phone call or email away — just contact us with your questions and you'll receive prompt attention from our support guys.