Layershift Jelastic PaaS expands its borders!
Layershift were the first provider to introduce this revolutionary platform to the UK. Now we’re first to go multi-region with the addition of our USA Southwest region in Phoenix, Arizona.
Answering your demand
Customers throughout Europe are enjoying the exceptionally high standard of service and support we deliver together with our Jelastic PaaS. More and more businesses are saving time and money by only paying for usage, rather than instance size, combined with the renewed focus our highly versatile hosting platform grants by removing sysadmin setup time and headaches.
But our friends across the pond in America were sad. They looked across with envy and pleaded:
“Why do we have to put up with poor service and unreliability from the huge IaaS corps?”
Of course this illustrative of the problem facing most of our PaaS competitors: almost all are built on top of third party infrastructure such as AWS, Digital Ocean, or Azure, so they really have no control over the important infrastructure details; nor can they provide robust SLAs as standard like Layershift.
The US is also an important market for many of our European customers. Together these factors created a very high demand to combine Layershift’s extra special service quality, scalable hosting platform, and a well connected US server location.
We took this opportunity to expand our overall footprint – already in Manchester, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Singapore – launching our Jelastic PaaS in Phoenix is a really proud moment for us.
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.
UK Java Cloud Hosting – deploy a scalable app in minutes
We’re pleased to say that Jelastic, our scalable Java Cloud Hosting platform, has been performing great for the past 10 days. Many users have signed up to trial the platform in our free beta period. We’ve received a lot of very valuable feedback – everyone keeps telling us how fast, stable and easy-to-use our cloud is compared to our competitors and traditional Java hosting!
For those of you who have not tried our platform yet, here are a couple of videos to show you how easy it is to get started with your first applications deployed to the cloud in just a few minutes!
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Jelastic Java Cloud Hosting – UK beta launch
We are pleased to announce the free beta launch of our UK-hosted Jelastic Cloud Hosting platform.
As the exclusive hosting partner of Jelastic in the United Kingdom this is a very exciting time for us and our customers as we bring this innovative platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to our renowned hosting infrastructure and local network and datacentre for the UK and Irish markets, supported by our highly acclaimed 24×7 technical support team.
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New website & services
Our new website, community and this blog have all gone live today, replacing our previous website which has served us well for almost six years. A big THANK YOU to everyone who has worked on this project over the last 10 months – great work!
As is often the case with projects like this every step has taken twice as much time as expected, but we really wanted to make sure we’ve incorporated all of the feedback we’ve gathered from our loyal customers and staff over the past six years and are very happy with the end result.
Please check out our fabulous new website and range of services and let us know what you think!
This is an important step because it allows us to showcase our services and product features fully, which we’ve never really done before, but it’s also important to our customers because we’ve radically reinvented our range of services – we’re now offering what we think are the most competitive and complete Managed Hosting Services around with some great new enhancements!
Here are some of the highlights:
- New range of Cloud VPS and Cloud VPS Extreme products featuring Plesk Panel 10
- New range of Dedicated Server and Complex Hosting products for customers with more bespoke or specialist requirements including high-availability, clustering and load-balancing
- New range of load-balancing, SSL certificates, trust marks and a wider range of domain names
- Introduction of our new ‘Care Pack‘ concept where we bundle a range of exciting new features and an SLA-backed service guarantee across our entire Cloud VPS, Cloud VPS Extreme and Dedicated hosting ranges – this includes some significant free enhancements which we are also rolling out to all existing VPS customers!
- Global coverage with our existing UK and USA and new Singapore managed hosting!
We’ll be posting much more in the coming days and weeks about our new range of services and in-depth discussions about some of the exciting new features and what the changes mean to you.
We’re working very hard to bring even more to you in the near future.
Watch out for the beta launch of a really exciting new service at the beginning of next month!
Let us know what you think!