Startup Hacks – are you ready?
Layershift and Startup Hacks have teamed up to provide all participants with special free access to all features of our Jelastic cloud hosting platform throughout the event.
Manchester and the north west of England will always have a special place in our hearts and that’s why we’re eager to help the members of our local community. We’re really excited about this weekend – Startup Hacks’ 48 hour hackathon – a coding competition right in the heart of Manchester that gives us the perfect opportunity to support local business.
Introducing Apache TomEE cloud hosting
We’ve spent some time checking out Apache TomEE recently as we’ve added it to our Jelastic Cloud hosting platform. Although not as popular as other servers in the Java Enterprise Edition world, TomEE – pronounced “Tommy” – does a great job at delivering a fully operational, Java EE 6 Web Profile stack. It was founded by David Blevins, starting as part of the Apache OpenEJB project, and received the Java EE 6 Web Profile Compatible certification in Oct 2011.
Consider switching: MySQL vs MariaDB
If you’re working with databases, you’ve surely heard about MySQL. When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in April 2009 – the company who owned MySQL – a lot of developers expressed concern about the future of MySQL.
Being the author and founder of MySQL and a strong open-source believer, Michael “Monty” Widenius, decided to start a new project and create a “drop-in” replacement, MariaDB.
MariaDB’s goal is to have 100% compatibility with MySQL, as well as adding new features, additional bugfixes and improved performance.
New Jelastic feature – FTP and FTP-SSL
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added full FTP and FTP-SSL support to Jelastic to allow you to login directly and (optionally) securely to your servers. This frequently requested feature will allow you to perform operations such as:
- Downloading log files
- Uploading/downloading web applications and other files
- Making changes to your configuration files
FTP requires a public IP address in order to work. You can either enable a public IP address on your web server through our “Topology wizard”, or it will be automatically enabled when you install the FTP addon.
Save big with new Reserved Cloudlets
We’ve just added a new special type of cloudlet to our Jelastic Cloud: the Reserved Cloudlet.
Like normal, this is 128MB RAM and 200 MHz CPU, but you can pre-book this cloudlet to make it 100% yours. Any cloudlets that you reserve, you pay for – even if your resource usage is lower. However, because this helps us to plan capacity across the platform, we give you a sweet discount (saving up to a HUGE 55%).
Learn more about Reserved Cloudlets
We’ve also converted our standard cloudlets to Dynamic Cloudlets (they work just like before, but with a new name) and reduced their cost.
Combine Reserved Cloudlets with Dynamic Cloudlets to get the best of both worlds – the rock bottom pricing of our heavily discounted Reserved Cloudlets, and the on-demand automatic scaling courtesy of Dynamic Cloudlets.