Digital Skyline

 

RIA Hosting (...in the Cloud)

The Cloud Platform

Digital Skyline is proud to announce our latest service offering, a new Rich Internet Application Hosting Platform, also known as "The Cloud Platform"!  If you have never heard the term Cloud (or Grid) computing, it's because while the concept has been around for a long time, it has only recently become cost appropriate for hosting web applications. Cloud/Grid Computing has also developed so many different meanings since its inception that it's meaning has been greatly diminished. Still, we've always admired the core concept which is instant, easy access to large scale computing.

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How Stuff Works: Cloud Computing

Our RIA Hosting Platform is an example of advanced technology made simple. When we load applications on The Cloud Platform, these applications immediately and automatically inherit clustered processing, load-balancing, and redundant storage across a whole fleet of servers.

The moment we install an application, it's set to scale across an entire fleet of computers. There are no devices to think about or servers to configure. We don't install an operating system, we simply select one. This allows us to spend less time administering and monitoring the backend applications, and spend the majority our time doing what we do best, developing your applications.

 

 

We will utilize The Cloud Platform to meet a unique set of goals designed to make the process of web development faster and easier:

  • The Cloud Platform is "device-less." So there are no servers, VPSes, operating systems, or devices for us to setup and configure. We simply install your application, and you're off and running.
     
  • The Cloud Platform scales automatically. It's hard to predict when you'll need to scale quickly, and really, you shouldn't have to. Because clustering is built right in, the processing powering your application simply surges when your traffic surges.
     
  • The Cloud Platform is flexible. It's able to leverage the technologies you want to use. It's a far better approach: with pre-configured optimized environments for specific use of different technologies. We can choose the configuration that best fits your needs.
     
  • the Rackspace Data Center The Cloud Platform is easy. We can launch a new application with close to zero configuration. We leverage our web based software to provide the domain where your site or application will live and then pick the technologies needed to power it. The entire process takes about five minutes. We even do some DNS magic so you can get started before your domain name fully migrates.
     
  • The Cloud Platform is never obsolete. Most importantly, it is a dynamic environment where you are automatically provided upgrades, patches, and even new technologies without any effort or migration on your part. It's the cure for server obsolesce and a welcome change if you've been stuck paying month after month for an aging infrastructure that was racked up years ago.

Now, doesn't that sound like the future of computing? Contact us to learn more about how Digital Skyline RIA Hosting compares to other hosting options.