Moving to the Grid
Sudden traffic spike ever bring your site to its knees? It happens to the best of us - well, it used to. An innovative web hosting platform is shaking things up and it’s only a matter of time until it becomes the norm.
It’s called the grid server. As the name suggests, content is hosted by a cluster of thousands of servers each dedicating resources to you on an as-needed basis. It’s relatively inexpensive & you only pay for what you use - smart hosting.
On that note, 2Core will be out for an hour in the near future as we make the migration - I expect it to be our last time down for a long time. Update: We’re on it!
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Sounds efficient but is it profitable?
After they make back the initial investment of development\implementation, it seems likely their long term hosting costs will actually be reduced by this model.
First because CPU\RAM\IO resources across each system will be allocated where needed eliminating redundant hardware.
Second, the ability for service to continue automatically even when older systems begin failing also means lower operating costs from having to keep comp-engineers available 24×7.
I don’t know the details of their cost\ROI on implementing this grid, but my guess is it’s an increase in both efficiency and profitability over the previous web hosting model.