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Each person has a different conception of the word "hosting", as well as different needs. This makes it easy for us to make a list of key points and possible innovations that would be able to drive this service in the right direction: yours.

To put all this down on paper, we use what we call "user cases"; these cases are just as diverse as the needs of all our customers.

Here is an exclusive look for you, our blog readers, of some examples, and we hope that you will be the ones to describe your own here shortly

Gandi AutoInstall  

Automatic installation that is rapid and functional, and that lets you choose the level of customization you would like:

"I always wanted to have my own server, but my knowledge in system administration is not good enough...I'm always asking my friends how to install and configure this or that service. With Gandi AutoInstall, I can choose my applications, and specify the settings that I want. I then submit my request and the server is created and installed all by itself in a few seconds- and it works perfectly!"

Rapid and diverse installations to manage your wide range of needs:

"I am a reseller of complete internet solutions, with the number of customers that I have and their wide range of needs, I have found in Gandi AutoInstall a quick and reliable way to create multiple pre-configured servers in just a few clicks."

Gandi Hosting: Modularity of resources

The possibility of adapting to any situation in just a few seconds, without performing any changes:

                "I launched my new social networking website one Thursday evening, and the buzz occurred faster than anticipated - hundreds of visitors tried to connect to the website at the same time on Saturday night! The website was not able to handle the load, and it was a catastrophe for the launching! I immediately went to the hosting management interface page and saw that I could increase the capacity of my website in just a few seconds: I tripled my capacity, without even having to restart the server, and I was able to absorb the demand"

Quick power adjustment for a very short time:

                "I ordered a small server at Gandi to setup a TeamSpeak and an Americas Army server to play with my friends online. With Gandi's tutorial, I saw that it was easy to install, however, given the size of the installation file (2GB), it would have taken all day to install, all the more so, since we wanted to install several huge maps to customize the game. I therefore multiplied the power of the server by 4 and was able to download 4x faster! I was then able to go back to my original configuration, just 2 hours after having increased its power!"

Increased data security

Guaranteed reliability that is not found in similar offers:

                "At Gandi, the disks run with RAID6, which strongly reassures me, even though this does not prevent me from performing regular backups of my database. Knowing that 5 disks are running at the same time to save my data, this is a real guarantee of security that is normally only found in a distinct service at an extra cost."

Gandi Wi

An active and reactive community, based on the Gandi spirit: peer-to-peer help for all:

                "I am not a geek at all, but I would like to control my own server and choose the services to install on it. In addition to using AutoInstall that did all the basic installing tasks that I was happy to pass on, I found some great guides written by people in the Gandi community, who were also ready to help me with my questions. This really gave me the desire to participate myself."

Your right to be heard and to choose what technology Gandi offers:

                "Many of us in the Gandi community wanted to see the addition of the Linux Gentoo operating system. Thanks to the Gandi wishlist, we suggested the idea, and rallied others who wanted it as wel. The project was accepted by Gandi's developers and will be added within two weeks! It is nice to be heard and granted one's wish!"

Gandi Flex (AutoFlex) * under development, available in early 2008

An advanced scheduling system to meed my needs and assure that I have a high-quality service at the best price:

                "My website sees a lot of traffic on the weekend. Consequently, I was either under-sized for the times when the website was the most visited, or forced to have a hosting service that was over-sized for 5 out of 7 days, with the additional costs that go with it. With GandiFlex, I schedule the desired capacity on a day-to-day basis, and the server adapts itself to the volume of traffic. I therefore improve the quality of service, and avoid spending money needlessly."

A flexibility that allows changing one's needs depending on real and immediate use:

                "Our team holds regular training matches of Quake Wars. We are 8 and the server runs well with 4 shares. But hey, our matches are rather random, and we give them the password to our server, and so we can sometimes have 16 players, with the necessity of having a perfect level of quality at that time. With Gandi AutoFlex, there is not even any need to touch the interface, the server will automatically change from 6 to 7 shares during our matches and the game stays super fluid."

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It would be difficult at this time to describe the technology that will be used (server shares) in order to reach our goals: know simply that we consider our service to be a huge pool of machine resources, and that our role is to empower you to profit from it depending you needs, and this, in real-time.

We must also offer you services that will simplify your life, and we must remain at the leading edge of trends in terms of distributions and languages, thus freeing you from all the usual restraints... in short, invent - with your input - a new type of use, a new way of thinking about hosting, to consume more intelligently, and if if possible ... less!