Richard Davies

London, UK — May 3rd, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to meet the needs of all organisations; from micro businesses with no technical expertise right the way through to larger enterprises that want additional services such as cloud migration, server management, managed back-up and disaster recovery for their cloud based infrastructure. ElasticHosts’ existing solutions provide flexible, pay-as-you-go, self-service cloud servers to organisations. With full admin access, customers log in, configure their software and adjust server capacity to match demand. By partnering with Hybrid Sites, ElasticHosts’s Cloud Sites provides scalable... (more)

Cloud computing service or a mirage of hot air?

Our CEO Richard Davies recently wrote a guest post for ComputerWorldUK about how to spot fake clouds. Here is the full text: The term cloud computing has become a constant fixture in the media — and indeed in the boardroom. It seems that you can’t have a conversation in IT without the term coming up at least once. The reasons for this are clear; the economic outlook continues to look bleak and in these times of austerity everyone is trying to cut costs, and specifically avoid large capital expenditure, while still trying to do things more quickly. Cloud in its truest form, ... (more)

Cloud server newsletter - January 2012

Happy New Year and welcome to the first ElasticHosts Cloud Server Newsletter of 2012! We are very excited about the developments that we have planned for this year but first we need to let you know what we’ve been up to since the last newsletter back in the Summer: 16GB Servers, automatic repeat billing, firewalls Critical alerts by SMS and copied to extra email addresses Powered by ElasticHosts: Link to us Tutorials, global support and status page New Toronto and Los Angeles data centres Control panel revamp White-label program coming soon Account updates and new features If y... (more)

Building a scalable, redundant cloud web application

The joy of the cloud is that it makes it super easy to respond to changing demand. Say you write a web app. And it’s really good! In just a few weeks, you go from 10 users to 100,000. In the bad old days, your app would have promptly fallen over, you would have had to buy new hardware and your sysadmins would have had to install and configure this hardware before your site came back up. These days, scaling up your server from a 2GHz processor to a 20GHz processor, or from 1GB of RAM to 8GB of RAM, is as simple as using an ElasticHosts cloud server pricing slider. But what if yo... (more)

Critical Windows RDP vulnerability announced.

Microsoft has recently announced a vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that affects all versions of Windows from XP through the latest pre-release of Windows 8, including all Windows Server products. This bug allows a remote hacker to execute code on a system, essentially running any software they wish, without any intervention on the part of the user. Obviously, this is a critical vulnerability and should be addressed as soon as possible by all customers who are affected. Anyone who uses RDP to connect to their Windows machines is vulnerable to this attack unless they ... (more)