About Cloud Computing

1. What is Cloud Server?

A Cloud Server is a virtual server which has much greater scalability, customization ability and availability than a traditional physical server. The full root access of the Cloud Servers allows you to install any applications you want so that you can create your own servers via the control panel. Moreover, with the real time Snapshot Taking and Auto Failover, the Cloud Server is able to maintain 99.9% uptime guarantee.

2. What is the difference between Physical and Cloud Servers?

Cloud Server is outperforming Dedicated Server. Each cloud server’s specification is tailor-made for you. It can be easily adjusted to meet your business growth by the web-based control panel in several steps. It is easy to tell the difference when a physical server can only allow additional 1GB RAM at most and require much downtime for hardware expansion or upgrade. Moreover, Cloud Servers have a higher uptime guarantee than physical server as they are equipped with the real time Snapshot Taking and the Auto Failover.

3. What are the benefits of Cloud Servers?

• Freedom to modify all the server software to your needs. This includes the operating system kernel, which is not always the case with other virtualization solutions such as private virtual servers.
• Stability and security. Software problems are isolated from your environment. Others' cloud servers can't harm you and vice versa. Even when other users overload their cloud servers, it will not pose any threats on yours because resources are dedicated. In this way, stability of your server network is guaranteed.
• Cost Efficiency. Cloud servers are more efficient in terms of costs. At a similar price, with cloud servers, you receive more resources and a more advance server. In web hosting terms, your site will run faster on a cloud hosting server if you compare to hosting it on a traditional server at similar price.

4. Who will need Cloud Servers?

The Cloud Servers would be an ideal server hosting solution for people who are:

• Using other physical server hosting solutions
• Planning to host their resources
• Having seasonal fluctuation in demand for server resources

About Cloud Computing

1. What is the difference between Enterprise Class Solution and General Business Class Solution?

• Resilience. Enterprise Class Solution provides the active-active failover option. That is, in case an Enterprise Class Cloud server is down, another hot standby cloud server can take over automatically while General Business Class Cloud needs manual migration.
• Performance. Enterprise Class infrastructure is based on HP blade and EMC VNX storage, the I/O throughput rate is higher.
• Scalability. Enterprise Class's blade server hardware allows faster expansion and less lead time to fulfill ad hoc requests of large capacity.
• Flexibility. Enterprise Class gives a better flexibility in memory allocation among a set of cloud servers. As an optional service, we can to base a set of cloud servers on a shared pool of memory resources. Then, the number of cloud servers can easily expand and contract while the memory pool size is fixed.

2. Is there any required subscription commitment for the Cloud8tation Enterprise Class Solution and General Business Class Solution?

No. At Cloud8tation, we offer true on-demand pay-as-you-go services. The minimum subscription period is 1 month and you can renew your subscription on a month-by-month basis. In turn, you can commit to subscribe for 3, 6, 12, or 24 months to be free of hassles of any price changes. Moreover, if you make a 12-month or 24-month advance payment, you can enjoy a discount of 5% or 10% respectively.

3. What kind of payment methods do you accept?

Payment by PayPal, Credit Cards (Visa/Mastercard/Discover/American Express), Cash/Cheques are accepted. Oneline payments are processed securely by PayPal. You can enjoy a 3% discount for paying by cash/cheques deposits. To pay by cash/cheque, please make payments to the following account and email to info@cloud8tation.com with your registered email address stated and a copy of the corresponding deposit slip/telegraphic transfer (TT) advice attached. To gather more information on Cloud Computing and our services, please email us at enquiry@cloud8tation.com . Our representatives will be happy to assist you.