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Help Me Choose

Unsure which type of hosting is right for your business? It's no surprise; today's market offers more flavors than an ice cream parlor—and more promises than a political campaign. We'll make it simple for you. In essence, it comes down to three options: traditional managed hosting, shared clouds, and the StrataScale Physical Cloud. Naturally, we think our version is best. Here are a few reasons why.

  Traditional Managed Hosting Shared Cloud StrataScale Physical Cloud
  Traditional Managed Hosting Shared Cloud StrataScale Physical Cloud
Security Security shouldn't be a problem—as long as you don't mind doing a lot of your own legwork (or paying up for optional services) Security on a shared box? Sure, you can keep your fellow tenants out of your resources and your business—but you'll have to learn a lot about hardware first. We make it simple for you: first of all, no sharing servers. Second, complete security features come standard with every solution. Third, you've got complete control over your own boxes, network, and firewall. In fact, your Physical Cloud ends up being more secure than most in-house datacenters.
Resources You can tap into all the CPU, memory, and bandwidth you need—as long as you're not in a hurry (or pressed for cash). Those manual sys admin processes add up fast. Bargains are available—but with shared resources, you're never sure they'll be there when you need them. Your servers are your own, fully dedicated to your use. No excuses.
Time to Market You need it when? Sorry—we'll need a few weeks longer. Speed is what cloud computing is all about (as long as your order doesn't take too long to rise to the top of the queue). Need to spin up added capacity quickly to respond to business or development cycles? In minutes, you can add or reconfigure servers for test, development, or production—right from your own browser.
Availability/Reliability It all depends on the datacenter. No SLA's ... high-profile outages ... meager track record in enterprise IT ... let's just say performance isn't the cloud's strong suit. StrataScale's highly redundant environment features multipath networks into the datacenter; redundant facilities and equipment; fault-tolerant storage and servers; affordable failover capabilities—it all adds up to unparalleled control and resiliency.
Flexibility Sure, you can make changes ... just plan ahead (by a few weeks) and bone up on those archaic manual processes you didn't think anyone used anymore. Flexibility is no problem! As long as you don't ask for anything too difficult. Repurpose servers on the fly while maintaining complete control. Capture and load server images in minutes. Switch networks without a reboot. Renumber your environment with a click. And that's only the beginning.
Cost If traditional managed hosting was cost-effective, would we even be talking about clouds? For a "low-cost" option, the hours, storage, and bandwidth sure adds up fast. Fixed costs, pay-as-you-go contracts, and high automation mean the only "surprises" are pleasant ones.
Problem-Solving Open a ticket. Wait. Wish you could just do it yourself. With little to no transparency and no control over anything below the VM level, you're at the mercy of the cloud provider. We give you complete environment transparency so you can troubleshoot from the app all the way to the firewall. You can even set up monitoring services to alert you of problematic apps.
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