Domain hosting giant GoDaddy last week announced expansions to its cloud business, including new cloud server locations in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. GoDaddy is building a cloud business aimed at smaller businesses than those targeted by the best-known cloud providers, Amazon, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Although the GoDaddy Cloud Server business is only four months old, it already has "tens of thousands" of customers, according to GoDaddy Senior Vice President Jeff King .
On Wednesday, GoDaddy reported Q2 results, with revenue up 16% to $456 million and adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation) of $104 million. Both figures were above analyst expectations, leading the stock to rise 12% on Thursday to close at $31.78. The hosting segment, which includes the nascent Cloud Sector.
CPU Speed of GoDaddy Cloud servers using server-grade Intel Hexcore processors between 2.0 GHz and 3.0 GHz. To view the clock speed and other details of the CPU on the hypervisor one is assigned, command on the command line: cat /proc/cpuinfo
They are not currently supporting the ability to create custom plans where resources can be increased independently. This means we cannot currently add additional SSD / disk space capacity to a plan. They are providing 5 plans on different sizes from plan 1 (20GB 512MB memory 1 core processor 20GB SSD disk 1TB transfer) to Plan 5 (80GB 8GB memory 4 core processor 80GB SSD disk 8TB transfer ) . Offering 99.9% uptime guarantee and currently in US datacenter only
Inline with GoDaddy’s commitment to open source software, the new Cloud Servers offering is built on OpenStack and powered by purpose-built KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization. With SSDs (solid-state drives) across the board, Cloud Servers offer excellent performance due to very fast I/O (Input/Output).
"With the launch of Cloud Servers, GoDaddy aims to extend our lead as the number one trusted provider of Cloud Hosting solutions for individual developers and technologists. We’re looking to make it easy for developers to serve small businesses with the technology they want," said Jeff King, SVP & GM Hosting, Security at GoDaddy. "By offering a powerful, yet simple cloud offering that integrates domains, DNS, security and backups all in one place, developers can save time and exceed their clients' expectations."
"As a GoDaddy technology partner on Cloud Applications, we're excited for GoDaddy's international customer base to take advantage of our capabilities – joining the millions of developers and business users who save time and effort with our library's consistent, secure and optimized end-user experience. We're proud to partner with GoDaddy in serving this global market of advanced SMB-focused developers," says Erica Brescia COO and Co-Founder at Bitnami.
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