Managing Cloud servers or Services is most certainly not for everyone, unless your business has an active and dynamic IT staff you may feel that you're not getting the best value out of the hundreds of available features that you see everyday.
If you or your company designed and developed a great app for example, the app uses a couple of web services and you figure a cloud server is all you need...
Well, not so fast! Getting the app to work with your web service is one thing but things start to go wrong really fast when more than a few dozens of users start coming in.
Scalability often just means more RAM and what you really need is fine tuning and server optimization, perhaps even switching web servers and moving the databases to a separate dedicated instance.
This takes carefull planing, work and knowledge, it is not done magically or automatically!
One other very important aspect that is often overlooked is security, having a cloud instance on a secure location doesn't really mean anything when you have open ports that are vulnerable to DoS or brute-force attacks.
Working in System Administration for more than 8 years, doing mostly custom software implementations and providing support for our clients servers, we came to realize that there is a gap that we could fulfil, and so KimeraLive.com was born!
Self-funded, with a yet somewhat limited number of ready to use cloud services (overselling is completely against our reliability and Quality of Service philosophy), we provide fully managed, optimized, scalable systems and application oriented environments with a great personalized support.
We launched yesterday so suggestions are most welcome!
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