October 17, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Web host and domain name registrar Gandi (http://www.gandi.net) has announced an “unparalleled hosting service”, it was announced recently. According to the company, the service took “9 months of intensive beta testing using a pool of 9,000 servers created by over 4,000 individual customers”.
"We are extremely proud to announce the opening of Gandi's web hosting service, which has been developed entirely in-house over 2 years, and is built on a 'cloud infrastructure',” announced Gandi.net’s COO, Joe White. “This means that your server runs on a grid of computers, guaranteeing your resources, while giving unparalleled resilience to failure, and the ability to expand or contract your resources as your needs change. The hosting industry is well aware that this is the next evolutionary step in technology and will replace shared hosting, and possibly even dedicated hosting. The advantages for customers are too great to be ignored, which is why the traditional players, having down played this, are now using buzzwords around virtualization in order to continue to sell to the less informed."
"We have developed this technology in house with the support of our active community of beta testers,” added Mr. White. “Their support has allowed us to stay in close contact with our customers during development and means that we can be very agile in response to their changing needs in the future. We would like to thank them for helping us deliver this revolutionary service."
The Gandi service offers flexibility in that users can increase or reduce the power of their servers instantly with no loss of service. This means they can tailor the service to their actual needs and evolve their server in line with their growth.
"This is the beginning of a new chapter in Gandi's history," added company CEO Stephan Ramoin. "We have long been recognized as the registrar of choice for the tech community, and our revolutionary new hosting offer delivers the same level of quality, innovation, flexibility and price that our customers expect. And for those who don't need the power of a full server, Gandi will soon launch additional hosting services, at a far lower price. Watch this space."
Established in 1999, Gandi manages more than 760,000 domain names for clients in 198 countries around the world.
