Moving (some of) my websites to Mosso
Few weeks ago (I wanted to try it before writing about it) I decided to give a try to Mosso.
Mosso is an hosting company backed by Rackspace Managed Hosting, and they offer what is called “cloud computing” or “grid computing”. Basically your website isn’t hosted on a single machine but on a network of servers interconnected as if in a grid running in parallel, sometimes using the technique of virtualization to maximize computing power per server.
The main advantage of using cloud computing to host your website is that it’s the easiest hosting to scale, even if just temporarily. If your site will hit Digg’s homepage it’s much harder to shut down a network of machines than a single one.
Wikipedia summarize the pros of using cloud computing in six points:
- Location of infrastructure in areas with lower costs of real estate and electricity.
- Sharing of peak-load capacity among a large pool of users, improving overall utilization.
- Separation of infrastructure maintenance duties from domain-specific application development.
- Separation of application code from physical resources.
- Ability to use external assets to handle peak loads (not have to engineer for highest possible load levels).
- Not have to purchase assets for one-time or infrequent intensive computing tasks.
I would also add:
- You can use PHP, ASP, Ruby or whatever you like one the same hosting account
- There’s no hardware to buy and you only pay for what you use.
- Great live support
- It’s a Rackspace Managed Hosting (but way much cheaper)
I haven’t personally tested Mosso scalability but I really hope to try it soon.
Another cool feature about Mosso is that they offer a fully white label hosting platform for your business and they make really easy to bill your clients for hosting services.
If you want to learn more about Mosso or give it a try (they have a fully refundable 30 days test drive) you can check their official website here and please add my referral code REF-THIRTYNINE.
Important Update!
Using my referral code you are going to have an immediate $50 toward your credit.
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