Paul Hinks' Blog

I’ve been meaning to post this for about a week now, but I’m sure the information is still accurate. GoGrid have a $50 coupon on their site that’s easy to find and works out at about a month’s free basic service. I got an email from them saying that to get a $100 credit you just need to call 877.946.4742 or +1 415.869.7444 and ask for one. I guess they think the extra details they can grab from you in person is worth the extra cash. If they ask where you got the number say you got forwarded the StartupSF email.

Interesting news from GoGrid today – they are adding two new features which actually go some way towards addressing the cloud computing issues I have mentioned before. Firstly they are allowing user-defined images to be uploaded, from which multiple virtual servers with varying memory allotments; this means that I can clone my entire application stack and deploy multiple copies of it in minutes. They are also connecting their Colocation servers to their cloud servers, so it will be possible to use the standard hosting service and expand into the cloud as and when required, just as I said I wanted to here. This issue is also potentially addressed by Dynect’s solution, although I have yet to fully investigate that service. Anyhow, it’s good to see that somebody is thinking through the cloud offering and what it takes to make it a practical solution. As soon as I’ve fully investigated Dynect and kicked GoGrid’s tyres for deploying my new project I’ll post the details here for people to throw stones at.
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