GoGrid Press

...The company prides itself on being first to market with a unique Web-based GUI, Windows and Linux cloud servers, free f5 hardware load balancing, and free 24x7 support, among other breakthrough features. And now, GoGrid is proud to offer what it describes as yet another industry first: a public API that gives users what it calls true "Control in the Cloud."

...Amazon doesn't do Windows; it doesn't have a GUI; it charges $72 a month for load balancing, $500 a month for support and 10 cents/GB for inbound data.

GoGrid calculates that—assuming 100GB of outbound data (and in Amazon's case 10GB on inbound data)—the total cost for 30 days with load balancing and support runs $68 at GoGrid and $662 at Amazon.

GoGrid offers the widest range of machine images, including Windows systems. A clean, AJAX-based control panel makes it simple to get a sophisticated network up quickly and efficiently, and saves you the trouble of cutting and pasting IP addresses and other details...

GoGrid has gotten a lot more interesting over the last few months, going from what we had previously called Utility Computing to more of a full-on Cloud approach...GoGrid delivers true "Control in the Cloud" by combining many of the familiar features of dedicated server or managed hosting with the flexibility and scalability of cloud server hosting

GoGrid's API is the kind of positioning that all service providers should adopt—complete openness on the front end so that customers can use the default user interface or where they have specific service goals they can interface to the service with alternative and extended user interfaces.

...the folks at GoGrid actually believe their product is more true to cloud computing's notions of openness, simplicity and flexibility than is EC2. In terms of simplicity, Sheehan says GoGrid is all about making cloud computing "less nebulous and [more] tangible to the end-user." Whereas Amazon has an 18-minute video instructing EC2 greenhorns on how to get started, he says a Go-Grid first-timer can be up and running in five minutes using the company's almost-too-easy GUI. (Ed. Note: He's not lying—at least in terms of provisioning a few machines and adding a load balancer and a database.)

...we setup a quick network on GoGrid consisting of a load balancer, two web servers running Linux and a larger database server running Linux and MySQL. In all, it took a few minutes and the instances were live within 15-20 minutes. We were then able to login and configure the virtual hosts and have a simple blog running within another 10-15 minutes - so the control panel and feedback interface has a definite advantage.

Here at the Structure conference, everything is cloud, cloud, cloud. No one wants to own their own Web hardware anymore, it seems, and the company representatives speaking here are happy to provide the software and virtual services to replace the hardware.

One of those is GoGrid, which is shooting for the same cloud-computing market that Amazon.com is making a run at with its EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud, service and related Web services...

...ScribbleLive, a blogging platform, faced a different, but conceptually similar, problem. The site typically gets 181,000 page views a day. But during Apple's developer conference, usage spiked to 2.3 million page views. Scribble, a two-person operation, quickly scaled up using GoGrid, and was able to keep running with little or no loss of throughput. The price: $15 for a day of server time, plus bandwidth charges.

It works! Despite my criticisms, GoGrid is very easy to expand and contract as needed and there's a choice of operating systems to use (Windows as well as several Linux distros with different services configurations). Add to that 24/7 support and GoGrid is a very interesting platform for a variety of markets.

GoGrid, the Cloud Computing service provider has recently been selected by the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team as a prime example of the Google AJAX development framework in action. GoGrid is being showcased on the GWT Featured Project Page. GoGrid's rich, interactive graphical user interface (GUI) is built using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), an open-source Java development framework which enables GoGrid to provide a quick, responsive and interactive user experience. GoGrid is nominated for Best Virtualization Solution for the LinuxWorld 2008's Product Excellence Awards.

"When we started the GoGrid project, we wanted to push the boundaries of both front end and backend technologies," says Justin Kitagawa, lead front-end developer for GoGrid. "We were heavily influenced by Google Maps, the new Yahoo! Mail client, and several other state of the art AJAX applications. We wanted to have a thick client feel in the browser but with the performance of a thin client." Kitagawa continues. Thick clients tend to require a much larger download and overhead, yet provide a richer experience, while conversely thin clients are much faster but less engaging visually.

GoGrid, the leading Cloud Computing service provider of Linux and Windows Cloud Servers, today announced that it has been chosen as a finalist by IDG World Expo and LinuxWorld.com, for the Product Excellence Award of Best Virtualization Solution. This highly regarded and competitive honor will be awarded at the LinuxWorld 2008 Conference and Expo, which is occurring August 4th through August 7th, 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

ServePath, the creators of GoGrid, won the coveted Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld 2007 for best Grid Computing Solution last year. Capitalizing on this experience and honor, ServePath's new flagship Cloud Computing offering, GoGrid, builds on last year's virtual server success with fast scaling and portal GUI control of instant servers. http://www.gogrid.com [GoGrid] is a Cloud Computing service that enables users to quickly and easily create, deploy, load balance and manage Linux and Windows cloud servers within minutes. GoGrid offers true "control in the cloud" with its unique web-based, Graphical User Interface (GUI) which allows for 'point and click' deployment of complex network infrastructures.

GoGrid was first to market with a unique web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), Windows and Linux cloud servers, free f5 hardware load balancing, and free 24x7 support, among other breakthrough features. Today, GoGrid announces another first: the only Cloud Computing provider that offers all of this plus the availability of a public API, essentially giving users true "Control in the Cloud."

GoGrid's Application Programming Interface (API) allows GoGrid users to programmatically control their GoGrid environments. While the existing GUI enables users to easily and quickly create complex network infrastructures...

Today GoGrid announced the immediate availability of GoGrid's QuickStart Facebook servers, which allow businesses to quickly build and deploy Facebook applications. The QuickStart Facebook Server automates and speeds up the Facebook application setup process, enabling Facebook developers to more quickly and easily create, integrate, host and scale Facebook applications. By using a GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Server, both ASP.NET and Linux developers and systems administrators are now able to roll out Facebook-enabled servers in under 5 minutes, and when user adoption of their Facebook application increases, individual GoGrid QuickStart Facebook Servers can be scaled into load balanced server networks in minutes.

One month after beta launch, GoGrid proves that servers controlled, scaled and load balanced through the GoGrid server control panel can take the pain out of hosting, saving time and money. Companies, from startups and Web 2.0 businesses to corporations can now get their network architecture deployed with few technology resources and little disruption to the flow of business. GoGrid's hosted servers with root and administrator access, full management control and support for both Windows and Linux-based server operating systems raise the productivity of IT departments. GoGrid servers and server networks deploy, scale and load balance instantly

ServePath, the San Francisco Bay Area's leading managed server hosting provider, announced the public launch of the GoGrid commercial beta. Any System Administrator with a credit card is invited to sign up for free. They will get rapid access to the first ever, Web-based system for purchasing, deploying, managing, load-balancing and instantly expanding complex, multi-server Internet architectures. GoGrid pricing includes a per-hour RAM-based usage billing model.

GoGrid offers a new approach to rapid vertical and horizontal server scalability. By placing their server infrastructure within ServePath's experienced and powerful managed and hosted server network, GoGrid customers gain the flexibility, economies and security that are difficult to achieve for most companies. ServePath's seven years of server and collocation experience delivers a robust environment for GoGrid's innovative servers as a service product. Driven by an AJAX-based web GUI, GoGrid enables customers to quickly and easily deploy new web and database servers, add and configure load balancers and monitor Memory and Transfer charges in real-time. Built on top of a grid (server cluster) and Xen-based virtualized infrastructure, GoGrid delivers true on-demand scalability with its high-performance hosting services