In to the Cloud: Jelastic, Java and Php in the Cloud

Cloud, Cloud everywhere. Believe it or not, in less than 5 years Cloud has becoming a very vibrant technology. Apart from its purposes that provide accessibility everywhere anywhere for individuals, this technology helps raising small to large scale enterprise businesses to reach effectiveness and save costs. Prior to Cloud, SMEs have to spent more costs in IT infrastructure just to run their own business critical application. Hiring Network professionals, dealing with vendor for servers and networking hardware, managing down time to setup and maintain their infrastructure to keep their system online. Just imagine how painful it was, how much time they spent to troubleshoot, mitigate, and maintain infrastructure to support their business application. Unless your business is providing Iaas and PaaS like most of Cloud vendor does, this is non-sense to your business nature.

Jelastic is Cloud that provide Java and Php platform as a service. But it is far better because it also provide Virtual Dedicated Server in which you will have root access to the server, like a virtual private server, but with very very transparent an manageable costs that you can control from the OS level to application level. You can set up load balancing, high availability, application server environment, etc through its easy to use web interface. Develop and deploy to Jelastic with a few simple click to setup the environment, or clone the existing environment. That's all, what are you waiting anymore? stop that bloody painful back end management and let them do that for you, unless you really want to have in-house back end system. With 7 Euro/month (according to my lowest topology setting ) it is worth it to be your own research and develop or hobby environment. For bigger usage or SMEs, these setting can be adjusted for more performance, you don't need to invests much money and deal with headache to plan system migration whenever you have hardware upgrades or failures.  Here is a video about Jelastic and screenshots from my Jelastic account.