In association with Ready Server
When you are a small business owner, every cost item counts towards the bottomline that you watch closely.
If you want to push out a website quickly for a new property launch or to test out a new mobile app, it often means spending on online services that are costly and inflexible.
Years after cloud computing first became the way forward for operations online, the reality is that many small and medium businesses (SMBs) still struggle to find the right solution to fit their digital business needs.
Many end up with costly cloud service bills when they unwittingly over-consume cloud resources while developing a new business.
Others are stuck with inflexible Web server hosting, unable to easily scale up or down the compute resources they need to reflect their changing business needs.
Despite promises, many of today’s cloud or virtual machine offerings often rack up costs over time or are too rigid for fast, agile development.
This is where Ready Server comes in. Its new virtual private server (VPS) offering provides the ultimate flexibility for SMBs with its per-hour billing, unlimited data and easy management through a mobile app. Yes, just like a mobile phone subscription.
Whether you are a budding entrepreneur looking to jumpstart your new business or a developer making the next big virtual reality app, the Ready Server offering lets you get started without worrying about hefty upfront fees or being stuck in a long-term contract.
Need to spin up some resources to test how a game runs online? Fire up a virtual server for a few hours in the afternoon for a test drive. Shut down the service when you’re done.
What if you wish to have a website up for a few months to promote a new product launch or a new property launch. Set up a virtual server on Ready Service for the specific time you need, down to the hour.
Another feature of the new Ready Server offering is that it’s robust and it will cater to sudden surges of traffic.
If you bust your limit for data usage, your website or server continues running, only at a slower, throttled bandwidth. In other words, less disruption and more flexibility, and yes, again a little like a mobile phone plan.
The flexibility helps SMBs overcome a major issue – cost management – and enables them to test out what works best before scaling up rapidly with a solution that meets their needs.
Speaking of flexibility, users can also make changes to their servers with their mobile phones via an app.
Besides logging in to a command prompt console or a Web-based interface, as with most other online services, they can make use of the Ready Server app to make quick changes to their servers on the go.
For example, if they wish to increase the amount of server resources to be used to test out an app or to add new users to use the server, they can do so easily without reaching out for a laptop.
The Ready Server mobile app can be downloaded for Apple iOS here and Google Android here.
Prices for the new service start from under S$5 a month, or less than 1 Singapore cent (more specifically, S$0.00694) per hour. Yes, that’s the kind of affordability that SMBs could get onboard with.
The pricing for Ready Server is based on points, where each hour of usage costs 1 point. Customers can top up a minimum of S$50 each time for 7,200 points. That gives 7,200 hours or about 10 months of server usage.
For this price, SMBs get:
- By-the-hour billing for unmatched flexibility
- Unlimited bandwidth, subject to throttling, for zero disruption
- Competitive rates for an affordable cloud solution
Based in Singapore, Ready Server has hundreds of bare-metal servers in its data centre in the Republic. All are ready to power up for new customers in the global financial and technology capital in a matter of seconds.
With years of experience managing dedicated servers for customers large and small in the region, it is ready to empower SMBs with new cloud offerings that make a real difference, starting in the Year of the Snake!
Join the Ready Server beta programme to find out how this new offering can get your new business off the ground or transform your existing operations with its agile features. Get started with free credits to try the new service here.
