Company brings high-end autoscaling and load balancing features to mass-market cloud hosting.
OnApp, a cloud hosting provider, today announced that it has launched Version 2.2 of its cloud management software for hosting providers. The new version introduces features that, until now, have only been available from hugely more complex and expensive cloud service providers, and out of reach of a typical mass-market host and its customers.
The company states that Version 2.2 of OnApp introduces autoscaling and load balancing for virtual machines hosted in the cloud, as well as support for the Free BSD operating system. The new version is available now to hosting providers, and can be set up in as little as 24 hours. Existing customers can request a free upgrade through their OnApp support team.
It further states that OnApp software was developed from the ground up to enable mass-market hosts to build their own cloud hosting services. Version 2.2 includes:
Autoscaling: OnApp 2.2 supports 'autoscale up' and 'autoscale out' for virtual machines based on Linux operating systems. OnApp 2.2 provides these capabilities as standard through an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage graphical control panel. OnApp 2.2 handles the autoscaling process transparently, and automatically calculates billing for the additional resources.
Load balancing: OnApp 2.2's load balancing features are powered by Loadbalancer.org, a provider of load balancing technology. Load balancing enables the cloud to support clusters of virtual machines that present themselves to users as a single website or application. Traffic is distributed across all virtual machines in the cluster, improving performance and resilience for cloud end users. Load balancing is managed through OnApp's graphical control panel in just a few clicks.
FreeBSD support: OnApp 2.2 also adds support for virtual machines based on the FreeBSD operating system, a Linux-based OS that offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features. OnApp-powered clouds support a range of Windows and Linux operating systems for virtual machines, in 32- and 64-bit flavours. This enables hosting providers to offer far greater choice to their customers in the applications they are able to move to the cloud.
"This is a major release of OnApp cloud management software, and big news for the hosting market," said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp. "Our mission is to make the cloud as simple and affordable as possible for all hosting providers, without compromising on high-end functionality. By introducing autoscaling and load balancing we're bringing cutting-edge cloud features to the mass market for the first time, and enabling even a small host to compete with the likes of AWS - but in a customer-friendly way, and at a fraction of the cost."
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