Deployment scenarios
Public, private, hybrid & VPS clouds
You can build many different kinds of cloud with OnApp. For example...
By-the-hour public cloud hosting
You can use OnApp to set up a complete pay-as-you-go public cloud system:
- Sell virtual machines to customers who pay for hourly for cloud resources
- Set different prices for RAM, CPU and storage
- Set up different availability zones with different pricing
With this kind of cloud, you can compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services.
Private clouds
Use OnApp to offer private cloud services, instead of or as well as a public cloud service.
- You can group hypervisor, network and storage resources into a single private cloud resource
- Customers get all the benefits of a private cloud, backed by the resources of the whole cloud
- This brings the cost of private clouds down for customers, too
With this kind of cloud, you can also compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services...
Cloud VPS
Use OnApp to set up a cloud hosting service with resources packaged into pre-configured VPSs.
- Group cloud resources into packaged resources you can sell on a monthly plan basis
- Your customers use packages as the building blocks for their VMs
- This approach makes cloud hosting extremely simple for end users - easy to transition traditional VPS customers to the cloud
With this kind of cloud, you can compete with services like VPS.NET.
Hybrid cloud hosting
This is where dedicated hosting meets the cloud. Use OnApp to offer hybrid servers to customers:
- Allocate hypervisors on a 1:1 basis: each customer gets a dedicated hypervisor for their hosted service
- Failover is provided by the rest of the cloud (for example, one HV might act as failover for 5 "live" HVs)
With this kind of cloud, you can compete with every dedicated server provider.
Traditional VPS model
You can use OnApp to manage traditional VPS services, too.
- OnApp doesn't demand that you have a SAN back-end
- This means, if you want to provide customers with traditional VPSs using local storage, OnApp can handle that too
This kind of set-up lets you compete with solus VPS providers.
Something else on your mind?
As the cloud hosting market matures we're seeing all kinds of new offers emerge from cloud hosting providers. If you have something else in mind, get in touch - we'd love to chat.