For the longest time, application development and management were completely dependent upon physical infrastructure. As businesses looked to host multiple applications on a singular hardware system, virtualization solutions like hypervisors were introduced. A hypervisor, also known as a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), is software that creates and runs Virtual Machines (VMs). The hypervisor will allocate resources to each guest or …
Using MariaDB-as-a-Service on the CloudSigma PaaS Platform
MariaDB has been a prominent name in the world of hosting for a long time now. CloudSigma PaaS combines the best practices of MariaDB hosting and analysis on our platform in the form of CloudSigma MariaDB-as-a-Service. This service is designed to automate the technical aspect of the process and allow you to use a ready-to-work solution at a moment’s notice. …
Cloud Computing and the Right-Sizing Problem: What is it and How to Solve it?
Cloud Computing The internet has become the center of not just an average individual’s life, but also the business industry. There are hardly any sizable modern businesses that are not utilizing some form of digital or online technology to execute their strategies and achieve their goals. In fact, many small and medium-sized businesses are also looking to leverage the sheer …
Improving Availability and Site Performance Using a Replica Set with MongoDB Auto-Clustering
Auto-clustering enables you to create a replica set of your entire database. MongoDB is a stack you can use on your CloudSigma PaaS platform to make the process incredibly easy- you can make a reliable replica set with just one click. There are many benefits to automatic clusterization, some of which include: High Data Availability It is a great strategy …
Is PaaS Platform Lock-In a Hidden Threat to Your Business?
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings can be a powerful solution to the problem of scarce resources. By removing the complexity of managing underlying infrastructure and development environments, they make it possible to write, test and deploy new applications fast and efficiently. Since speed to market is now a key competitive differentiator, PaaS is a choice that can deliver a market advantage. The …
CloudSigma PaaS Platform Automatic Vertical Scaling How-to Guide
Scaling is one of the most critical features that is often missing from most cloud interfaces. CloudSigma PaaS, however, has made it a point to automatically scale any and all applications. Application scaling can be performed horizontally as well as vertically with CloudSigma which makes it one of the most flexible options currently available. CloudSigma PaaS performs scaling by modifying …
Setting up Your Application: How to Choose the Best Server Setup?
Introduction Technology and the internet have become central presences in our regular, academic, and professional lives. That is why the sheer number of websites and applications that exist concurrently does not come as a surprise. If you are a business, you would want to have an associated web platform. An application enables you to market and deliver your services to …
Create a Script for Windows to Auto Expand your Partition after you Increase your Virtual Drive Size
At CloudSigma our infrastructure provides unbundled resources which gives a lot of flexibility. It means you can increase a drive’s size as you need to. The problem for the most people is however that when the drive size is increased at the infrastructure layer in the cloud, the filesystem is not expanded automatically and you have to do this manually …