(2/6) Our hosting will be flexible
By Ryan on Monday 26 November 2007, 11:28 - Gandi - Permalink
Flexibility, this is the capacity to adapt to a given situation. And this is how we have designed our hosting service.
There are so many of you, and you all have radically different needs from each other. Would that mean that we would need to have just as many different hosting plans? We are definitely not going to provide a simple shared hosting plan: it is our job to adapt to your needs, and not to force you to you to choose a plan from a category that only more or less fits your needs. Our service will be flexible!
We also re-examined the question of obligation. We, the consumer, are now accustomed to the tradition of signing a contract for a set time period, that to use a given product, you must sign a contact for X months. This tradition applies to nearly all the hosting services we have seen. It is also against the very nature of the very flexibility that we want to give to you.
As a user, for example, one might like to rent a server for 3 months (to launch a website, a brand, etc.), or even, why not... a day, in order to work by remote connection with a team located in Ireland. And even, hey! let's be crazy: 3 hours, tonight, to play a round of Quake with some friends who live far away!
Also, why we are being flexible on duration, we might also be flexible on the capacity: Would you like to assure the good performance of your machine during the launching of a product, and then reduce its power once the initial surge has dropped off? Why should this not be possible? This works in the other way as well of course, and to an extent that you might not even have dreamed of
All of this, and without a set contractual period, holy cow!
I'll sum up all this up for you: You choose what you want, how long you want it for, you pay, and you get it

Comments
This is sounding more and more like the on-demand infrastructure setup, like that of Joyent. Looking forward to it!
Right: a part of what we will offer looks like what can be found on some good hosting companies in the US...but just a part
sounds great!
Do you will provide full access to host?? (Do you whisper virtual?)
@AC: Our service will give you all control that you are used to having over your server, yet with far greater flexibility and reliability
...but this is for another entry...
Well, late post, I did not read all the previous entries, was busy with a server at that time. A team in Ireland? Why that? You mean some US companies have teams here? 8-0 (ok, only joking dear friends from the other side of the ocean
Sure, I should rather have a temporary server with Gandi... It gives me an idea then...
Sorry for the useles post, just good mood to share. Talk to you next time Ryan
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