In association with Ready Server
When the first public cloud computing services became common more than a decade ago, the promise was that anyone with a credit card could sign up to access powerful IT infrastructure and scale up their business at the click of a button.
While cloud computing has revolutionised how IT services and businesses are run today, there is still much room for improvement, in terms of the flexibility, ease of use and scalability that it had promised.
One big issue, as many businesses now realise, is cost. While they no longer need to buy and maintain their own servers, spinning up instances on a cloud service repeatedly can quickly ratchet up costs. Don’t forget the price of transferring data in and out of the cloud server as well.
In Asia-Pacific, cloud spending is expected to accelerate – it grew 10 per cent in 2023 and 23.4 per cent in 2024, according to research firm IDC. By 2027, the number will hit US$329.1 billion, at a compound annual growth rate of 17.3 per cent.
For many businesses, scalability and flexibility are now question marks with no easy answers. If the costs for buying more compute or storage are prohibitive, then a cloud service is not as easily modular as advertised.
That’s not to mention the technicalities involved in running your own cloud service. While you no longer need to worry about maintaining a server, you still have to make sure your virtual machine is updated and compatible with the apps that run on it, whether the app is a Web server or a human resource program.
The good news is that there are more modular and flexible alternatives around today that are easy to fire up and run with minimal effort. Ready Server’s virtual private server (VPS) offering, launched early this year, is one example.
True to the promise of cloud computing, it enables any user, from a Web developer to a real estate agent, to use a credit card and sign up for a plan and get started working on their online application or service within minutes.
Ready Server’s plans offer unmetered bandwidth under a fair-use policy. This way, whether you are running a high-traffic e-commerce store or a large-scale application for your business, smart bandwidth management ensures consistent speed and performance.
This also means true flexibility. Crucially, businesses don’t have to pay through the nose when traffic spikes on a busy month in your operations. They can focus on growing their business instead.
Just like a mobile phone service, business users can monitor usage and status via a mobile app and plan their usage based on their operational needs.
The real-time monitoring offered on the Ready Server app enables users to quickly address any issue that may impact their business. They can also easily adjust server settings on the go, without logging in via complex server interfaces.
This gives unprecedented control at users’ fingertips. In other words, a truly flexible, affordable and scalable solution that builds on the promise of cloud computing and empowers agile, modern businesses.
And prices start from S$5 a month, or less than 1 Singapore cent (more specifically, S$0.00694) per hour. The per-hour billing means there is zero wastage for any project you wish to get started online, at any time you need.
All this doesn’t mean a compromise in terms of quality. With years of providing hosting services, Ready Server is also backed by solid hardware and connectivity that are trusted by customers.
For starters, the company’s Singapore-based hosting means low-latency connections across the main Asia-Pacific markets, as well as around the world.
Notably, the Singapore-based company operates its hosting service with more than 5,000 CPU cores and more than 100TB of fast solid state drive (SSD) storage. They are set up and ready to empower customers big and small.
So, whether you’re a Web developer, new startup, or a large enterprise, Ready Server’s trusted hosting solutions can now deliver the promise of cloud services in an affordable, scalable and flexible manner, like never before.
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