Yesterday, we shared the news about SiteGround standardizing their cloud hosting offering on our Server Cloud, so we thought you might be interested to know why that’s such a big deal.

As Carl mentioned in his introductory Server Cloud – Now Available blog post, the new cloud hosting platform was designed to meet the immediate needs of our customers. SiteGround was one of our beta program participants, and they provided a ton of feedback on tweaking the offering for its initial release. With their help and the suggestions from hundreds of other beta customers, we pinpointed a few key Server Cloud differentiations that will benefit hosting resellers:

Transparency

Unlike most other cloud hosting providers, we’re completely transparent about the cutting-edge infrastructure that powers our products.

Reseller Benefit: You’re investing in “the cloud,” and given the incessant confusion around that term, being able to point at hardware to say “this is the cloud infrastructure and I trust it” is huge when deciding where to place your trust (and your business).

Technology

Server Cloud is built on the KVM hypervisor and is powered by Intel Xeon 5520 processors, Sun SAN data protection and a network maintained by Cisco and Juniper devices.

Reseller Benefit: The cloud doesn’t have to be a mystery. You and your customers should know what kind of processing power the platform provides, and you should be confident that your data is safe.

Dedicated Resources

Simply having the hardware, software and network available isn’t enough. Each Server Cloud instance is assigned dedicated resources to guarantee you have full access to that amazing technology.

Reseller Benefit: Server Cloud is designed so you have access to 100% of your resources 100% of the time. Pushing the upper limits on your installation? You can flip the switch and spin up a bigger instance – also with guaranteed resources – in seconds.

Bandwidth

Every Server Cloud instance is bundled with 1 TB of bandwidth at no additional cost, and additional bandwidth is only 10¢/GB.

Reseller Benefit: If your customer is hosting a website on your cloud hosting platform, they’ll need to access it and, they’ll want other people to access it. By including a terabyte of bandwidth with each Server Cloud instance, we give you a sizeable buffer before you are charged for incremental bandwidth.

Provisioning Speed

New Server Cloud instances can be spun up in as little as five minutes.

Reseller Benefit: You don’t need to carry a large inventory of servers or cloud instances and pay for them when they’re not being used. When you get an order, you can place that order with us and turn it around to your customer in a matter of minutes.

The Bottom Line

By any calculation, Server Cloud is a great value and is very competitively priced. When you factor in the new hardware performance and 1 TB bandwidth allocation, it’s almost unbelievable. Evaluate the cost of a competing platform with the same specs and any significant amount of bandwidth usage, and you’ll be amazed at the difference.

-Kevin