cloudControl rescue

Assisted migration to Layershift Jelastic PaaS

Although cloudControl's service ends on 29th February, Layershift are here to keep your application online! Layershift migration engineers are providing free migration assistance to help all cloudControl customers move to our award winning Jelastic PaaS.

Our Jelastic PaaS is available in 2 regions, EU West (ISO 27001 accredited, Manchester, UK) and USA Southwest (SSAE-16 SOC2 audited, Arizona, USA). cloudControl customers can launch environments in either region according to their needs, but will find our EU West region option is most similar to the AWS Dublin facility as used by cloudControl.





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Features

PHP feature highlights

In Jelastic, PHP applications run on your choice of Apache (mod_php) or Nginx (PHP-FPM) servers.

We support PHP 5.3 - 5.6, and PHP 7, with a range of the most popular extensions precompiled and ready to use - simply uncomment a line in your php.ini (which you have complete control over).

Deploy via git, svn, or zip/tar.gz archive - optionally using our Zero-Downtime Deploy feature (as conceived by Rasmus Lerdorf) to atomically switch to your latest release without disrupting existing requests. You can even deploy using old school FTP/S - if you're into that! (we don't judge).

Of course, we also provide SSH access - ideal for CLI tools such as composer, drush, or artisan, and equally useful for hooking up your own capistrano or fabric deployment automation.

Databases, cache, and load balancing

No third party add-on required for your application's core. Jelastic delivers native SQL and NoSQL servers including MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and CouchDB - each are dedicated per customer, fully customisable, and provisioned alongside your application containers for minimum latency and maximum performance!

You can even deploy a ready to run MariaDB Galera Cluster (drop-in MySQL replacement with synchronous replication - ideal for high availability and read scaling) in just a few clicks in our marketplace.

It's exactly the same story for Memcached, Redis, Varnish, HAProxy, and Nginx cache and load balancing options - fully customisable dedicated containers per customer ready to serve your every need.

Java feature highlights

Jelastic provides a wide range of servlet container and Java EE application servers, including Tomcat, Jetty, Wildfly, TomEE, and GlassFish. These are available with Java 6, 7 or 8.

Java applications can be deployed from git / svn (via a hosted Maven build node), as WAR / EAR archive, or via plugin (Ant Task, Eclipse, IDEA, Maven, Netbeans).

No more workarounds

You shouldn't need to refactor your applications to move to the cloud. We bring back those essentials you struggle to live without, like your good friend cron, or the simplicity of writing to a persistent filesystem!

That's right, on Jelastic you can run scheduled tasks with the full power of the standard Linux cron, and untie that hand from behind your back - writing to the local filesystem is safe again.

Python, Ruby, Node.js and more!

Jelastic is a full polyglot platform, so we also support python (parsing your requirements.txt), ruby (processing your gemfile), and node.js (passing your package.json to npm, and forwarding traffic from port 80 onto your application's active port).

These days, Heroku's buildpack concept is a legacy technology. If you yearn for your own customisable application environment - perhaps offering Dart, Go, Mono, or any other - you can run it on Jelastic with the help of Docker® containers.

Jelastic provides Docker containers support with additional orchestration and isolation features such as:

  • Live migration and smart distribution: containers within a single environment are spread among different physical servers during creation, which eliminates the risks of application downtime and provides its high availability.

  • Automation and resource management: automatic vertical scaling and the ability to easily clone instances within an environment layer ensure that each container gets the required resources at the required time and avoids performance degradation.

  • Seamless container update: redeploy a Docker template inside your container based on another tag version whilst saving all the inherent settings and data inside mounted volumes.

  • Full isolation and security: each container enjoys complete privacy thanks to full isolation of RAM, CPU, IO, filesystem and network.

  • Easy configuration: via dashboard GUI or SSH terminal access.

Seamless container update: redeploy a Docker template inside your container based on another tag version whilst saving all the inherent settings and data inside mounted volumes.

Full isolation and security: each container enjoys complete privacy thanks to full isolation of RAM, CPU, IO, filesystem and network.

Easy configuration: via dashboard GUI or SSH terminal access.


 Note: Docker feature is not available to free trial accounts.

Try us free

There's only a short time before cloudControl switch off the lights. It's time to move into your new home without delay.

Start with a risk free trial account, let our migration experts help with the heavy lifting, and only upgrade to a paid account when you're fully settled in.





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Pricing

We only charge for the resources you use - not for resource allocation. Instead of paying by instance size, we measure the amount of resources used (per hour) and only charge for that. This gives you maximum flexibility, and big savings.

Like cloudControl, we use 128MB RAM as a base unit, but we also include a notional 200MHz CPU per 128MB RAM block. We call this composite unit a cloudlet.

Each container provisioned on Jelastic can consume multiple cloudlets. You can therefore create containers of 128MB - 8GB RAM each (vs. 128MB - 1GB at cloudControl).

cloudlets

You can optionally commit to pay for a minimum amount of cloudlets per hour (per container), regardless of your actual usage - called reserved cloudlets - in exchange for a discount. You receive automatic volume discounts for all cloudlet usage.

DYNAMIC CLOUDLETS COST PER DYNAMIC CLOUDLET
PER HOUR PER MONTH* DISCOUNT
1 - 7

RAM: 128MB - 896MB

CPU: 200MHz - 1.4GHz

 £0.0065 £4.75 -
8 - 15

RAM: 1GB - 1.8GB

CPU: 1.6GHz - 3GHz

 £0.0059 £4.27 10%
16+

RAM: 2GB+

CPU: 3.2GHz+

 £0.0052 £3.80 20%
* 30 day (730 hour) month
RESERVED CLOUDLETS COST PER RESERVED CLOUDLET
PER HOUR PER MONTH* DISCOUNT
1 - 7

RAM: 128MB - 896MB

CPU: 200MHz - 1.4GHz

 £0.0055 £4.02 15%
8 - 15

RAM: 1GB - 1.8GB

CPU: 1.6GHz - 3GHz

 £0.0049 £3.58 25%
16+

RAM: 2GB+

CPU: 3.2GHz+

 £0.0046 £3.32 30%
* 30 day (730 hour) month

You can add a static public IP to any container. This is strongly recommended for production use, and enables you to use a custom SSL certificate and avoid QoS limits on the shared load balancers / resolvers (responsible for proxying your HTTP/HTTPS traffic to containers without a public IP). The static public IP will not change (e.g. survives reboots). You can safely bind domains to this IP.

STATIC PUBLIC IP ADDRESS
PER HOUR PER MONTH*
Per IP £0.00274 £2
* 30 day (730 hour) month

Multiple containers in different parts of the application tier (e.g. load balancer, application server, database server) are grouped together and called an environment. An environment has a free usage quota of 10GB disk space (SSD) and 2GB internet traffic per hour (approx. 1.4TB/month). Disk space consumption is local per container (only aggregated for billing purposes), and internal traffic between containers is always free of charge.

STORAGE
per environment PER HOUR PER MONTH*
First 10GB disk usage (SSD) free
10GB+ (per GB) £0.000068 £0.05
* 30 day (730 hour) month
INTERNET TRAFFIC
per environment PER GB
First 2GB / hour free
2GB+ is charged according to total used last month
< 1TB £0.098
1TB < 5TB £0.088
5TB < 10TB £0.068
10TB+ £0.049
INTERNAL TRAFFIC
All traffic between containers within the same Layershift Jelastic region free

Payment

All service is provided on a prepaid basis, through advanced purchase of platform credits. Your account usage is debited against this prepaid balance on an hourly basis.

Platform credits can be purchased in the following amounts, exclusive of VAT where applicable: £10, £25, £50, £100, £250, £500, £1000.

Payment is by credit / debit card, or PayPal, in GBP (your card provider / PayPal will handle currency conversion at prevailing exchange rates where applicable). You can optionally configure auto-refill triggers (low balance or periodic).

Alternative payment methods are available by request.

About Layershift

Established in 2006, Layershift are a leading privately owned and operated UK based managed hosting provider. We have an absolute passion for providing top quality service and support - 24/7 support is included free of charge for all customers (even trials), and all services include a rigorous SLA.

Our customers constantly tell us that our service levels are unmatched by anyone else anywhere in the tech. industry. An independently verified fact thanks to our award as the Best in Western Europe (across all industry sectors) in the NiceReply Customer Happiness Awards.

Testimonials

The Jelastic platform we are on is amazing - it provides us with a simplified toolset backed up by truly awesome scalable technology - the perfect mix for us - and it is proving to be incredibly cost effective to boot. We are paying no more here than we ever did in traditional hosting, with the added benefit of having portability, scalability and flexibility at our fingertips.

Layershift's Jelastic platform offers BlueBox a fantastic toolset to scale and control costs.



Paul de Villiers
Director & Lead Developer - The BlueBox

In a world where web hosting companies seem to be solely focussed on attracting as many clients as possible and offering pretty basic (at best) customer service, Layershift excel in being able to provide truly personable and fast customer service.

When your business is your web site, like it is for us, knowing there are true experts on hand 24/7 to help when things go wrong is priceless. I have recommended Layershift so many times and will continue to do so.



Robert Matthams (Shell Young Entrepreneur of the Year)
Founder & CEO - Shiply

Layershift is our most trusted supplier for one reason - reliability and going the extra mile. They are always there and respond in a considered and pro active way to every request whether its at 3am or 3pm, Sunday or Tuesday.

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them to anyone.



Rob Smith
Strategy Director - Blueleaf

Layershift was recommended to us a few years ago when we were looking for fast, reliable servers and infrastructure and top rate support, and they have more than lived up to that reputation. Their engineers are knowledgeable, efficient and very helpful, and often go way beyond the call of duty to help us.

It's hugely reassuring to be able to leave our server management in such expert hands, and Layershift's consistently exceptional service means we can rely on them with complete confidence.



Gary Baker
Founder & CEO - Swagger & Swoon