Posts Tagged ‘RAM’
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 by Michael Sheehan
Scalability is one of the biggest benefits of cloud computing. Compared to traditional physical servers, cloud servers offer dynamic elasticity that allows businesses to scale “up” or “out” based on load or demand. Scaling “out” means adding more servers to your infrastructure and scaling “up” means adding resources (like RAM) to an existing cloud server.
Adding more cloud servers to your GoGrid infrastructure is easy, as is creating a GoGrid Server Image (GSI). Just a quick refresher: you would use a GSI to deploy copies of a particular server configuration or setup—this is horizontal scalability: create a GoGrid cloud server, save an image of it, and deploy copies of that server.
But let’s say that you want a particular server to have a little more power. One of the best “upgrades” you can make to any computer or server is to add more RAM. Running applications consumes RAM (as does the underlying operating system). Giving that server more RAM will make it run even more efficiently.
So, how do you add more RAM to an existing GoGrid Cloud Server? Just like the 3-step processes before (Create a GoGrid Cloud Server – Select. Configure. Deploy. & Create a GoGrid Server Image – Select. Save. Share.), this process is equally easy:
1. Select
2. Configure
3. Scale
Before we walk through this process, it’s important to remember that RAM scaling only works on “hourly” GoGrid Cloud Servers. If your server is on a monthly, semi-annual, or annual plan, you won’t be able to scale your server. In that case, you’ll want to create a GSI of an existing server and then deploy a new hourly server based on that GSI. If you do have an hourly cloud server, the process is easy. (more…) «How To Scale Your GoGrid Infrastructure»
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Configure Server, GoGrid, Horizontal scaling, How to scale infrastructure, Memory, Public Cloud, RAM, scalability, Scale, Scale Cloud Server, Scale Out, Scale Up, Vertical Scaling, Video
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Features, General, GoGrid, How To, Public Cloud, Video | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 by Kole Hicks
Every day I talk with customers about the benefits of cloud computing—everything from faster provisioning of resources, to reduced management overhead, to flexible workload management. The benefits are becoming well-known; however, when it comes to managing an IT budget, these benefits can also present a challenge. Unlike virtual compute, network, and storage resources, budgets aren’t elastic. Your company’s CFO doesn’t want to see that your nimble IT organization is spending $100 today and $1,000 tomorrow. He doesn’t care that you’ve matched IT resources to your customer’s demand curve. No my friend, what your CFO wants is predictability. Fortunately for you, that’s a challenge we’ve solved with our improved plan pricing for cloud servers.
To demonstrate how this new plan works, let’s build a simple model where your usage changes from one month to the next. In month 1, you need three servers for 400 hours, one server for 80 hours, and two servers for the entire month. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll assume all servers are 1 GB and 1 core. Using Pay-As-You-Go pricing, this configuration of servers on GoGrid would cost you $0.12 for each hour an individual server is running. The math for the first month’s configuration looks like this:
3 X 1 GB server x 400 hours = 1,200 hours used
1 x 1 GB server x 80 hours = 80 hours used
2 x 1 GB server x 730 hours = 1,460 hours used
The total hours used for all servers = 2,740 hours at a rate of $.12 per hour.
Total Pay-As-You-Go cost for month 1 = $328.80.
(more…) «How to Predict Elastic Cloud Computing Costs for Your Organization»
Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud hosting, Cloud infrastructure, cloud server pricing, GoGrid, hourly, IaaS, infrastructure as a service, Pricing, Pricing Plans, RAM, understand, Volume Pricing
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, Hosting, Public Cloud | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
One of the most powerful aspects of Cloud Computing is the ability to scale your infrastructure. But did you know that there are two components to scalability, horizontal and vertical. GoGrid has been offering easy horizontal scaling since we launched.
So what is scaling and how are you able to do this with GoGrid. Let’s break it down with a quick, high-level definition and then show you how you can do it on GoGrid
What is Scaling?
Horizontal scaling simply means the ability to expand your infrastructure out, for example, adding additional servers to your infrastructure. You can currently do this using the GoGrid web portal or API or even using one of the solutions offered by our partners in the GoGrid Exchange. Similarly, if you use our MyGSI feature to create a Golden Master of your server, you can quickly scale out vertically with cloned instances of that MyGSI. Conversely, you can also scale your infrastructure back by removing servers from the mix.
Vertical scaling means that you can add additional resources to your individual infrastructure components, for example, adding addition RAM or cores to a server.
How To Scale Your RAM on GoGrid
So, how do you scale your infrastructure on GoGrid? As I mentioned, you’ve always been able to horizontally scale your infrastructure and now we are pleased to announce the availability that you can vertically scale using our new RAM Scaling feature. GoGrid customers can now scale the RAM up or down on GoGrid Cloud Servers within their existing and new infrastructure in the GoGrid cloud.
(more…) «RAM Scaling and More Now Available on GoGrid!»
Tags: API, Disk Size, Downgrade, feature, Hard drive, New, News, RAM, Release, scalability, Scale, Scaling, Update, Upgrade
Posted in API, Cloud Computing, Cloud News, Cloud Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, GoGrid Exchange, Hosting, How To, Images, News, Release | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
Right on the heels of the GoGrid 3.0 release, we needed to be sure that we didn’t slow our momentum down. To that end, this week we have released some new features to GoGrid which are important to highlight.
We have 3 exciting features, specifically:
- East Coast Load Balancers
- New GoGrid Dedicated Server Images
- 16 GB RAM on GoGrid Cloud Servers
East Coast Load Balancers
As we work towards obtaining full feature parity within a few months in our East Coast Datacenter launch, one of the first items that we enabled was that of Load Balancing. Just like in the West Coast Datacenter, Load Balancing on the East Coast remains FREE. With the rollout of Load Balancers in the East Coast, all GoGrid users now have the ability to deploy 6 total Load Balancers for free, 3 in each Datacenter.
(more…) «Details on the Recent Upgrades to GoGrid: East Coast Load Balancers, New Dedicated Server Images & 16 GB RAM Images»
Tags: 16 GB, CentOS, Cores, Debian, Features, Fedora, GoGrid, GoGrid 3.0, Linux, Load Balancer, RAM, Release, RHEL, SQL Server, Ubuntu, Update, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Server, Cloudcenter, Datacenter, Dedicated Server, FAQs, Features, General, GoGrid, Hosting, Images, Linux, Load Balancer, Release, Windows | No Comments »
Friday, March 26th, 2010 by Michael Sheehan
Yesterday GoGrid finished the rollout of a series of updates designed to make the GoGrid Windows end user experience even better. While not a major feature release, there are some important items to note moving forward.
Windows Image Updates
With this update, there are a few things that GoGrid users should be aware of, specifically:
- The following GoGrid Windows images have been updated with the latest (as of February 2010) Microsoft Windows Security Hotfixes (see table below).
- Windows image names are now more consistent with Microsoft naming standards
- This only applies to GoGrid Virtual Server Images and does not affect Partner or Personal GoGrid Server Images (MyGSIs).
The full list of updated Windows images is below.
(more…) «GoGrid Update: Windows Image Updates & Base RAM Allotments for Windows Virtual Machines»
Tags: GoGrid, Microsoft, RAM, Service Release, Update, Windows
Posted in Features, General, GoGrid, Images, Maintenance | 2 Comments »
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