❌ Storm on Demand review

📄 Editorial Review

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Storm On Demand is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liquid Web Inc, a managed hosting and data center company. Storm servers are deployed within Liquid Web's 90,000 square foot state-of-the-art Cloud Data Center in the mid-western United States. Storm servers are backed by the engineering and support services of the Liquid Web Heroic Support team which is on site and available 24x7x365.

Traditional web hosting involves an environment where resources, such as RAM, Disk Space and Bandwidth are fixed and absolute. If the popularity of your web application increases, you'll need to upgrade the hardware on your Dedicated Server. With a traditional server, that involves down time and data center staff who physically have to upgrade your server. Storm Servers are different because resources can be upgraded and downgraded on the fly. Scaling your server is now simpler than ever; you can add RAM, Disk Space and Bandwidth,with a few clicks.

* Backed by a Generous SLA
* Guaranteed Resources
* Each CPU is a Physical Processor Core
* Persistent Storage
* Pay As You Go with Hourly Billing
* Engineered in a Liquid Web Data Center

Storm Servers feel like a traditional server, but have all the benefits of a cloud hosting environment. Available software includes: Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fantastico Deluxe, CPanel.

The Storm On Demand Dashboard was built from the ground up to give quick access to the information and tools needed to manage your entire network of servers. Gain visibility into your Storm Servers and view live graphs, usage data, and even console directly into your Servers with the Storm Dashboard.

Why Storm ?
Unlike traditional VPS and Dedicated hosting where provisioning a new server can take hours, or even days, with Storm, new servers can be deployed in minutes. Saving you time and allowing you to focus on writing a great application, not deploying servers.

With Storm's Clone feature, you can deploy exact replicas of your live server for testing purposes in minutes. And because it's on the Storm Cloud, you only pay for what you use. Clone a server to test a small code change and destroy it when the testing has completed, you only pay for the time you used!

Testing is paramount to application management but can be costly and a nightmare to maintain. With traditional hosting, provisioning a development box in a secure test environment can take weeks and requires you to buy & rebuild an exact replica of your live server.

Whether you need a Self Managed Server with debian or a Fully Managed Server with CentOS and cPanel, our selection of Storm on Demand images are sure to fit your needs.

Scaling your web site or application with traditional hosting can be a complex task that requires you rebuild your entire system. With Storm, scaling your server to add additional space or computing power is as easy as a few mouse clicks. There is no need to rebuild your entire system. Simply select resize, select your required server size and details and Storm copies and deploys your server in its identical configuration on your new server. A process that used to take days or weeks can now be done in a few mouse clicks!

Create a point in time snapshot before making upgrades and if anything goes wrong you can roll back to your previous state without messing up anything further. Whereas it could have broken other things in the past, now you don't have to worry about that. You can now simply roll back to a previous state.

For your convenience, all Storm on Demand services are billed hourly. This flexibility allows you to create and destroy Storm Servers as you need them, and only pay for the time you need.

Features:

High performance
Cloud computing in a truly high performance environment is the name of the game with Storm on Demand. Consistently ranking at the top over a full gamut of performance tests and ratings, our features are unmatched amongst our peers in cloud hosting.

Scalability
Storm on Demand offers the ultimate in flexible hosting. Increase or decrease resources (RAM, Disk Space, CPUs) on your server by Resizing your server, or scale your infrastructure by creating an additional, identical server with the Clone feature.

Guaranteed Resources
Storm On Demand CPUs represent full physical processor cores that are not shared with other users*. The distributed nature of our cloud architecture allows your servers to be in-line with what you would expect with a physical dedicated server.

The Sonar Monitoring Team is a team of highly skilled technicians specializing in service failure restoration and maintaining server stability.

Storm makes it easy to configure, manage and restore Server Backup's from within the Storm Dashboard. Storm Server Backup's are a complete snapshot of the entire file system volume at a specific point-in-time. Storm Backup's are transfered over a private internal backup network to a secure off-server storage pool. With Storm you have full control over your server backups. Select your backup intervals, how long backup images will be retained and even select between two options of pricing structures. You may Pay Per Gig of Backup Storage Used or Buy a Preconfigured Backup Bundle Package. The choice is yours!

Storm On Demand's Cloud Attached Firewall provides your server security isolation from threats on the global Internet. Storm's Cloud Attached firewall operates outside of your server environment and provides the same benefits of a dedicated hardware firewall which include: eliminating threats before they reach your server and processing threats without consuming the resources of your server. Storm's Cloud Attached Firewall comes with the flexibility to use a simple service based mode or advanced options for fine grained control over all traffic. Storm On Demand Cloud Attached firewall accepts Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation for easily manipulating large IP blocks.

Storm servers include both Public and Private networking capabilities that can be easily managed from within the Storm Dashboard. Storm servers include one public IP address free of charge. Additional Public IP addresses can be added for $1.00/month per IP. Storm's Private Networking provides seamless ability to securely connect all your servers together with the click of a button. Private networking allows your servers to communicate with each other over an internal, isolated private network. The bandwidth used on the private network is free and does not count against your regular bandwidth usage. As an example, Private Networking can be used to create a fast secure link to your database server with no additional bandwidth charges and without the threat of that traffic being intercepted over the public internet.

Storm On Demand includes a powerful API that allows programmatic access to control and manage all aspects of your cloud servers.

CDN ( stormondemand.com/servers/cdn.html )
Accelerate Your Business with Storm On Demand's Content Delivery Network

If your organization has not yet felt the pressure to send data globally in a moment's notice, that day may not be far off. The need to accelerate the transfer of bulk information across vast planes has given way to the rapid growth of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) as a popular communications solution. Enter the Storm On Demand Content Delivery Network. We offer the fastest and most efficient way to distribute your content through multiple nodes across the globe.

Advantages of Storm on Demand's CDN:

* Latency Free Expansion
* Global Accessibility
* Premium Performance in an Affordable & Easily Scalable Environment
* Enhanced Content & Fully Realized Web Performance
* Experienced and Knowledgeable Service
* Trusted Delivery from one of the World's Most Connected ISP's

Network load balancing ( stormondemand.com/servers/loadbalancer.html )
Network load balancing intelligently distributes traffic across multiple nodes and is a critical component of any high availability server configuration. Load balancers can greatly increase the speed & reliability of your web application because if one of your server nodes fails or becomes overloaded the traffic is automatically shifted to another server node without any interruption of service. Another advantage of load balancing is that nodes may be selectively added and removed from the load balancing pool allowing for easy server maintenance without disruption service.

Storm users can easily deploy one or many Virtual IP addresses to load balance traffic across an unlimited number of nodes utilizing Round Robin, Least Connect or Historical Intelligence load balancing methods. Storm users may load balance Web Services (HTTP/HTTPS), DNS, FTP or specify a custom port. The Storm On Demand load balancer includes the option to enable SSL Persistence or Load Balancer SSL Termination.

Storm Cloud Load Balancer Supported Services: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and DNS

Cloud Load Balancer Highlights

* Load Balancer SSL Termination and Session Persistence for proper source logging and security handling.
* Load balance between Cloud Server and Storm Bare Metal Dedicated Servers
* Handle HTTP & HTTPS traffic with one single VIP
* Enterprise class Load Balancer Hardware with Multiple Gigabits of Connectivity

🏢 Data Center

Liquid Web data center's power is conditioned and reliable through the use of centralized UPS solutions backed by state-of-the-art generator technology. Liquid Web's network is robust and reliable. We exclusively utilize premium Tier-1 bandwidth providers, ensuring minimal latency and fast connections to all points of the global internet.

Liquid Web's data center locations are entirely self-owned and staffed by highly skilled engineers around the clock. Liquid Web data centers are designed with redundancy installed at every level, ensuring that a failure at any level will not affect your server.

Data Center Features

* Manned 24/7 Facility with Closed Circuit Video Monitoring
* Multiple Generac Diesel Generators
* Redundant Network Infrastructure
* Multiple Powerware UPS Units

📢 Special pages

• About us: https://www.stormondemand.com/about/
• Terms of Service: https://www.stormondemand.com/about/tos.html
• Service Level Agreement: https://www.stormondemand.com/about/sla.html
• FAQ: https://www.stormondemand.com/servers/faq.html