Case Study: The BlueBox reviews Jelastic PHP Cloud hosting
“The perfect mix for us”
The BlueBox are a SaaS provider and specialise in web-based business systems. The BlueBox was started in 1997 and have been developing sophisticated business system tools and at the same time providing system developers with a platform on which to build and refine web based systems.
They’ve recently joined Layershift and started using our innovative Jelastic PHP Cloud Hosting service so we really wanted to get in touch with Paul de Villiers – Director & Lead Developer at The BlueBox to find out more details about how they settled in and managed to get their application hosted in the Cloud.
Q: Paul, tell us a little about The BlueBox
A: Our core product is BlueBox2.0 a full-featured ERP system that includes modules for Sales, Procurement, Inventory, Manufacturing, Marketing, Financial, Human Resources and Publishing.
We consult our solution to small/medium sized companies and pride ourselves in being able to bespoke each solution to fit our customer’s exact needs. Our average customer pays around £500-£1000 per month for our product on a month-by-month lease.
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Loyalty bonuses for trusting us with your hosting
As you browse our new website you will see we’re now focusing our web presence on our two great dependable cloud hosting services, Cloud VPS and Jelastic Cloud, and wanted to offer all of those existing customers something special just in time for the Christmas rush.
Cloud VPS & Extreme – still dependable, but now even better
Like all of our loyal customers know, our Cloud VPS and Cloud VPS Extreme range (and its legacy predecessor VPS range) has been a pinnacle of the hosting industry for many years, and we continue to improve our exceptional managed hosting services by pushing these services even further.
All of our Cloud VPS and Cloud VPS Extreme customers will now enjoy the following three new benefits, effective immediately, and without any extra charge as a Christmas cloud hosting loyalty bonus from Layershift:
1: Supercharged RAM & CPU
All plans have received a free boost in CPU and most plans extra RAM! More space to grow your visitor numbers, host additional websites and increase your performance with improved page loading times and faster scripts.
MongoDB Overview – NoSQL in Jelastic Cloud
Placed in 6th position on the DB-Engines Ranking, MongoDB is used by online giants like Forbes, The Guardian, Foursquare and eBay. This leading open-source NoSQL database enables these businesses to store articles, company data, venues or user check-ins.
Just like Jelastic, MongoDB’s built for scalability, performance and high availability. It also enjoys huge global popularity with over 4 million downloads, 100,000 online education registrations, 20,000 user group members and 20,000 MongoDB Days attendees.
Jelastic iPhone and iPad app released
We’re delighted to announce the immediate availability of the Jelastic mobile application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices!
Now you can always be connected to our next-generation PaaS using this handy mobile app. It was developed to make your life easy by providing access to the most common operations on the move.
By 2014, it’s expected that mobile internet usage will overtake desktop as people are spending more and more time on their mobile phones than ever before. Extending the Jelastic dashboard onto your iDevice makes sure that you always have everything right at your fingertips – even when walking your dog, or other strange outdoor activities like that where you might face the scary prospect of being away from your keyboard for a while.
Available now
Get the Jelastic Mobile App now from the Apple App Store – it’s completely FREE.
The application is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and is optimised for iPhone 5. Available for iPhone 4, 4S, 5 and iPad 2, 3, 4G, its interface is intuitive and user-friendly, so you can easily figure out how to use it within seconds.
Jelastic Version Control Enhancements
Jelastic, the self-scaling Java and PHP cloud hosting platform, was recently updated to 1.9.2 for all Layershift customers. Jelastic 1.9.2 includes many new features, advancements and visible changes that make it easier to develop and deploy applications.
Source Control Management (SCM) or Version Control Systems (VCS) are a developers second best friend (their best friend being the Jelastic platform itself of course!), so we’re going to focus on those platform enhancements in this blog post.
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Git submodule support
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Automatic check and update feature (optional)
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SVN and Git update logs