Jelastic announces the commercial availability of its Java cloud hosting platform with Rusonyx
Rusonyx’s Jelastic offering provides Cloud Java hosting with no lock-in or code changes required
PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, the world’s first standards-based Platform-as-a-Service, today announced its commercial availability in Russia through its partner, Rusonyx, one of Russia’s leading web hosting service providers. Rusonyx is the exclusive provider of Jelastic Java hosting in Russia, and is the latest partner to join Jelastic’s fast expanding network of providers.
Jelastic’s announcement today follows its recent closing of a $2 Million Series A Round of financing and successful commercial launch in the US with partner ServInt. Jelastic offers its cloud hosting services through a growing, global network of web hosting service providers, making it easier than ever for developers to deploy their applications to the Cloud.
“Rusonyx launched its Jelastic beta just last month, and we are very pleased that our teams have been able to bring it to commercial availability in such a short period of time, “ said Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov. “Now Russian developers will be able to access the full capabilities of the Jelastic platform. With our growing network of partners around the globe, we are realizing our vision being the world’s first global PaaS.”
Rusonyx CEO Andrew Schwarzkopf added, “We are very excited to be the first provider of Jelastic in Russia. Jelastic is the first platform that allows developers to quickly and efficiently deploy and scale applications in the Cloud.”
With its fast growing user base—over 16,000 users around the world have joined Jelastic in the last 8 months—and worldwide partners, Jelastic is the first truly global PaaS—with localizations in English, Russian and German, and Japanese currently in development. Jelastic is the first PaaS with no lock-in or code changes required. It is a software-stack agnostic platform for Java hosting that does not require coding to specific API’s or custom application servers or databases. With its revolutionary approach to Java hosting, it provides true auto-scaling for hosted applications and ensures that resources are automatically allocated without any extra work.
Jelastic’s customers are only charged for the resources they actually use. This allows customers to save money by scaling their applications to use only the RAM and CPU they need, or all the way off to save money.
Jelastic measures its resources by “cloudlet,” with one cloudlet being 128MB of RAM and 200MHz of CPU. The price is set at 0.7 RUB per cloudlet/hour and storage is 49 RUB per month for 1GB HDD. Jelastic requires no code changes, making it simple for developers to upload and deploy their Java applications or connect to their GIT code repository or SVN. Developers can have their applications up and running in the Cloud in just a few minutes – with no lock-in or code changes.
Current Rusonyx beta users that choose to become fully paid customers will get a 1000 RUB bonus to use as they wish; and any user that converts their beta account to a paid account by the 21st of May will get a 50% bonus on the funding they add to their account, with users that choose to make the switch on or before the 28th of May getting a 25% bonus on the funding they add to their account.
Jelastic is fully compatible with all major Java software stacks, including Tomcat, GlassFish, Jetty and JBoss application servers — as well as with SQL (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) databases.Whether you want Tomcat hosting with Couch DB or you want to use GlassFish with MySQL, it’s easy. Jelastic is currently available in the US with ServInt, in Russia with Rusonyx and Germany with dogado.
Make sure your Java host is as good as your code.
With Jelastic, it is as easy as Upload. Deploy. And Enjoy.
Start today! Go to Jelastic.com and try Jelastic for free.
About RUSONYX
Rusonyx is one of Russia’s leading Web Hosting Service providers for Small to Medium Enterprises (SME). The RUSONYX.RU world-class, fully automated infrastructure is built on the RTComm nation-wdie broadband backbone (30GBps, over 130 cities) and offers SMEs secure, reliable and comprehensive VPS, dedicated and shared web hosting solutions. More information about Rusonyx can be found at RUSONYX.ru.
About JELASTIC
Jelastic, Inc., a startup company based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes the Java server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java applications and allocates server resources required by applications, thus delivering the true next generation Java cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service at Jelastic.com.
The Jelastic Newsletter – May 16, 2012
How fast are JVM-based languages growing, Deploying ColdFusion Railo and Public IPs in Jelastic. . .
The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week:
How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers?
Deploying ColdFusion Railo to Jelastic – A User Review
Public IPs in Jelastic
What does this mean for you?
- It provides you with the opportunity to work with your databases remotely
- You can import and export dumps from your computer without having to login to our dashboard
- Remote debugging:you can debug your code from your IDE
- Ability to use web-sockets and polling
Commercial Launch with Rusonyx
Remember…
If you have any questions please let us know. You can reach us for support at Support@Jelastic or with more general questions at Info@Jelastic.com.
ColdFusion Railo deployment in Jelastic
This post was originally written by James Solo over at his blog, web developer padawan. We just had to repost it!
Deploying a Railo Instance to Jelastic
I thought I’d try one of the Cloud Java hosting platforms out there and I must say I’m delighted I did. I wanted to start up a Jelastic instance and throw Railo on it and see how it worked out.
First up sign in is super simple, just your email and that’s all you need. The user interface is clean, powerful and incredibly simple. With simple drop downs to create your environment and configure the number of instances, etc, that you need. In just a few minutes you can be up and running.
So I chose Tomcat 6. I did initially try Tomcat 7 but apparently they have a few problems with 7 at the moment [note: we have reached out to see what the issue. Not sure what problem James had. Will update this when we get it sorted]. Not to worry, Tomcat 6 is fine. Deploy your environment and then wait for it to be deployed. This takes just a minute or so while they build your instance.
Then down at the bottom you’ll see the deployment manager tab, under that you should see upload. You’ll need to upload your Railo.war. You can upload one you’ve downloaded, or I believe, upload direct from www.getrailo.org:
Once you’ve uploaded the .war file, you need to deploy it. Simple, still in the deployment manager tab, click on the box dropdown and click deploy. It’ll ask you to confirm “ROOT” as the context, but root is fine. Once this is done you should be able to click the “launch in browser” button and see the railo admin show.
That’s it, you’re basically done. I expect you want your own application to run, but that’s just as easy. If you click on the spanner / config option next to Tomcat 6 a settings tab will open and you can tweak the Tomcat settings. Expand webapps and root. This is your application home. You can delete everything in there except for the WEB-INF folder. Then upload your cfm files and you’re done!
I think this is a brilliant hosting environment and so brethlessly simple I’m very impressed.
The Big Three – Scala, Clojure and Groovy.
The following is an article written by TheCodeGeneral (not too sure who he is, but is quite respected in the community and very well read):
There have recently been two large JVM language polls (poll1, poll2). These polls have yielded some very interesting data. The results of the two polls differ due to differences between the audiences from which the voters were drawn. Clojure fared particularly well (ahead of Scala and Groovy) in the poll I ran due to many of the voters coming from the LISP friendly HackerNews community. The DZone poll which drew a slightly larger number of voters (primarily Java devs. from the dzone community) favoured Groovy, with Scala in second place, followed by Clojure. One thing which stands out in the results of both polls is the clear separation between “The Big Three” JVM languages (Scala, Clojure and Groovy) and the rest. This “Tier One” group represents alternative JVM languages which have garnered the most support among developers.
In order to get a better picture of popularity spanning both polls I combined the results and plotted a chart. “The Big Three” and JRuby (an honorable mention) are included in the chart. In the combined vote counts Scala, Clojure and Groovy are closely matched:
Popularity amongst developers does not always necessarily translate directly into commercial adoption. Indeed.com draws its data from a very large number of job websites and as such is an ideal source of data regarding commercial adoption. Running The Big Three languages through their job trends system yields some interesting results:
In the data both Groovy and Scala are showing signs of significant commercial adoption, with Clojure trailing. This is consistent with the DZone poll results and adds support to my theory that Clojure support draws heavily from hobbyists and lisp hackers rather than commercial organizations. Groovy comes out on top in this chart. The big three contains two dynamically typed languages (Groovy, Clojure) and one statically typed language (Scala).
The most encouraging outcome of the last few years has been the flourishing ecosystem around new JVM languages. A decade ago the CLR was being proclaimed as *the* runtime to support multiples languages. Thanks to the community the JVM is looking more and more like the preferred target for new languages, innovation and research.
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If you haven’t ever seen the Red Green Show, you are missing out. It’s not new by any means, but it’s some of the funniest stuff ever.
New Jelastic feature: Public IP addresses
Jelastic makes Public IP addresses available to its users
Today, we are proud to announce, public IPs are now available in Jelastic!
So, how do you activate this? It’s easy.
Within your Environment topology window in your dashboard, switch on the Public IPv4. You can do this for all containers except those that are Maven.
Wondering what IPv4 is?
The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed.
What does this mean for you?
- It provides you with the opportunity to work with your databases remotely. You can import and export dumps from your computer without having to login to our dashboard. Cool! Isn’t it?
- The second thing is remote debugging. You can debug your code from your IDE.
- One more thing to consider is the capability that a public IP gives you to use web-sockets and polling. So, if you open a page with upcoming messages and you expect them to be updated as soon as a new message arrives, a public IP is what you need. It is great for interactive applications.
Notice: having a public IP is a paid add-on. It is billed hourly. Pricing differs by hoster. You can find it within the dashboard..
Stay tuned for more exciting changes!
Jelastic Newsletter – May 9, 2012
How to use the New Relic Agent in Jelastic, Deploying Spring applications and More. . .
The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week:
Using the New Relic Agent within Jelastic
- Go to jelastic.com and sign up if you haven’t done so yet, or log in with your Jelastic credentials by clicking the Sign In link on the page.
- While in the Jelastic dashboard, click the Create environment button at the top left.
- Pick your application server (for example, Tomcat 6) and specify your environment name, for example, newrelic.
- Wait just a minute for your environment to be created.
- Go to NewRelic.com. Create a free account and then download NewRelic.
- Extract the files from your download and upload the newrelic.jar and newrelic.yml files to the home folder.
- Open variables.conf file (server folder) and specify the path to jar file according to environment variables:
- -javaagent:/opt/tomcat/temp/newrelic.jar
- Save the changes and restart Tomcat.
- Upload your WAR file in the Deployment Manager.
- Deploy it to the environment you created earlier.
Deploying your Spring applications using Jelastic
- Run NetBeans IDE and create a new Java Web Application: choose the type of the project, specify the name and the path to your project, pick your application server (for example Tomcat 7) and select Spring as the framework you want to use.
- Create your WAR file.
- NetBeans will show the path to the WAR you have just created.
- Create an environment.
- Upload and deploy the package.
Quick updates
- If you are on ServInt and want to know how the billing system works, this page will clarify it for you.
- A lot of people have been asking when we are coming out of beta with dogado or Rusonyx: at this point in time, we don’t have an exact date, but we are workinghard to make it happen. Not too far away!
- We want to know what you think! If you see something that needs fixing, or you have a suggestion, please let us know! You can do that on Twitter, Facebook, on the website or by emailing info@jelastic.com.
Cheers!
Remember…
If you have any questions please let us know. You can reach us for support at Support@Jelastic or with more general questions at Info@Jelastic.com.
Jelastic available commercially in the US with ServInt
PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, a Platform-as-a-Service for Java hosting, today announced commercial availability in the US through its partner ServInt. Jelastic is the first PaaS for Java hosting that requires no code changes or lock-in with true auto-scaling.
Jelastic’s announcement follows its recent closing of a $2 Million Series A Round of funding with Almaz Capital Partners and Foresight Ventures. Jelastic has grown to over 15,000 users while in beta, just 7 months after its beta launch.
“This isn’t the first PaaS solution on the market – even for Java – but it’s the first one that leverages best-of-breed systems from both the hosting and the PaaS software industries,” said ServInt CEO Reed Caldwell. “The folks at Jelastic are amazing software developers. We are a world-class hosting provider. Too many PaaS providers try to be too many things to too many people, and that lack of focus makes them ineffective. We have collaborated directly with Jelastic every step of the way to ensure that Jelastic is the best designed, most reliable and best supported PaaS on the market.”
Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov added, “Since we launched our public beta in October of last year, we have been growing at a rapid pace. Demand hasn’t slowed and the question of commercial availability has become even more frequent. Today, through our U.S. partner ServInt, Jelastic is now commercially available. This is a major step toward making our vision of a truly global, no lock-in, standards-based Java PaaS a reality.”
Unlike other options on the market, Jelastic does not require customers to code to any specific API. Jelastic dynamically and instantaneously allocates resources for hosted applications, scaling servers up and down to make sure hosted apps have the resources they need, when they need them.
Jelastic is fully compatible with all major Java software stacks, including Tomcat, GlassFish, Jetty and JBoss application servers — as well as with SQL (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) databases.Whether you want Tomcat hosting with Couch DB or you want to use GlassFish with MySQL, it’s easy.
Jelastic dynamically allocates resources instantaneously scaling application servers up and down, and making sure that they have the resources that they need. ServInt’s Jelastic customers are charged only for the actual RAM and CPU resources they consume, rather than for any predefined hosting service package or server they might otherwise purchase. Customers benefit because the costs automatically go down when applications are off or not being used. Jelastic measures resources being consumed in “cloudlets” — one cloudlet is 128 MB of RAM and processing power equivalent to 200MHz CPU core.
With Jelastic, it is as easy as Upload. Deploy. And Enjoy.
About Jelastic
Jelastic, Inc., a startup company based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes the Java server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java applications and allocates server resources required by applications, thus delivering the true next generation Java cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service at http://jelastic.com.
About ServInt
ServInt is a pioneering provider of high-reliability, managed cloud hosting services for enterprises worldwide. Founded in Northern Virginia in 1995, ServInt provides a range of IaaS, PaaS, VPS and dedicated server packages to hosting service resellers, web designers, developers and online businesses in more than 130 countries. To learn more about ServInt’s cloud solutions, please call 1-800-573-7846 or visit www.servint.net.
By default, all accounts created in Jelastic are considered to be trial accounts. If your account was created before our commercial release, don’t worry, it becomes trial automatically. But notice, there are some restrictions for trial accounts. Once you create a billing account, the limits are reduced and the account becomes a paid one. In the table below a particular set of rights and quotas for ServInt users are considered according to the type of the account.
Before the end of your trial period you’ll see a message that you need to convert your account. When the trial period finishes all your environments will be suspended. After that you still have some time to convert your account to the billing one. If you don’t do that your account will be destroyed.
Paid account can have 4 different statuses:
- Active (all your environments are running)
- Deactivated (it’s lack of money, replenish the account and it will be activated automatically)
- Suspended (you broke any part of agreement with hoster, all the environments will be stopped and you won’t be able to sign in; to activate your account you need to contact hoster’s support )
- Destroyed (you personally ask to delete it or your account is deactivated and you don’t do anything to activate it during some period of time stated by hoster)
How to convert the account
You can also click at the balance to see your Billing History with information about Event Name, Environment, Usage and Cost during the stated time-frame and interval.
Hope you find this useful. Stay tuned!
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