Press Release - Spreety Upgrades to Cloud Computing
Growth is a nice problem to solve.
Los Angeles, CA 3/27/2009 (TransWorldNews)
Growth is a nice problem to have for any small business.
What if your business went from 20 people a month to 200,000 a month in less
than a year?
Spreety's Guide to Watch TV Shows Online (http://Spreety.com)
did just that, and 5 server upgrades later, decided to try something new: cloud
computing.
With traditional server upgrades, the process was labor and
planning intensive. Typically, the upgrade would involve a code and data
freeze, extensive reinstallation, and patience while the domain name updates
trickled through the Internet. While the upside of traditional servers is
control, the downside is that the hardware had to be expensive enough to handle
the peaks of activity.
Enter the cloud computing server solution. The cloud is an
amorphous collective of computing power that is inexpensive and handles peak
activity gracefully. Billing is based on usage.
"For a growing business, we no longer have to buy powerful
machines in anticipation of peaks," remarks Spreety co-founder Ron Laughton. "Spreety
can now grow without interruption, and we simply pay as we go for only what we
need."
The vendor of choice was Mosso's Rackspace Cloud. Other
cloud solutions, such as Microsoft's Azure, are coming soon.
