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Cloud hosting for ifyouski.com

ZimWeb recently migrated and launched ifyouski.com on Amazon's EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) cloud hosting service. ifyouski.com have embraced the migration from conventional hosting to use new Cloud hosting technology cutting their hosting costs dramatically in the process.

ifyouski.com are one of the largest online specialist ski travel agencies in the UK with highly seasonal traffic on their website. During high season they need the capability to scale their website to handle large volumes of traffic and Amazon Cloud hosting allows them to do this efficiently. All imagery on the site is hosted on Amazons S3 (simple storage solution) saving ifyouski bandwidth, disk space and benefiting from the cost efficiencies.

By switching to Amazon EC2 & S3, ifyouski is able to use and pay for the hosting they require instead of a flat rate all year round. Based on the same principle as buying electricity, you only pay for as much as you use. In addition there are no costs associated with buying expensive hardware and networking equipment and maintaining it. You effectively rent (rather than physically purchase) from an enormous server provider which minimises time and risk, as well as being far more economical for ifyouski.  

There are a number of other cloud hosting providers besides Amazon EC2 such as Microsofts Azure Cloud Hosting platform and Rackspace/Mosso cloud hosting. Amazon currently have data centres in the US, Ireland and Singapore effectively covering North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.


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