Simpler Cloud RapidSSL Wildcard, $ 149.00/yr. on SSL Certificates

RapidSSL Wildcard has been updated on March 20, 2020 (added January 24, 2017), Aggregate Rating (10 out of 10 from 6 reviews)

🔐 Domains protected :	unlimited
💳 Payment Methods :	PayPal
✍️ Support Options :	Help Desk
⚑ Targeting :	SG

See also initial RapidSSL Wildcard plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

SimplerCloud is a Singapore-based cloud infrastructure and hosting provider established in 2014 and operated by Simplercloud Pte Ltd. The company is led by CEO Indra Pramana, an experienced Internet and hosting industry professional active in the sector since the 1990s. Its services are primarily aimed at developers, businesses and organizations that want infrastructure hosted in Singapore, with a stronger technical focus than the typical mass-market shared hosting provider.

The portfolio covers Cloud VPS, Shared Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Cloud, Private Cloud, Colocation, Cloud Backup, Domain Registration, DNS, SSL Certificates, Load Balancing, Managed Firewalls, server management and migration services. SimplerCloud can therefore accommodate anything from a small website or development VPS to isolated business infrastructure built around dedicated hardware and private networking.

The main Cloud VPS service uses KVM virtualization with distributed SSD storage. Virtual machines, known as Servelets, include root access, dedicated operating-system kernels, IPv4 and IPv6, browser console access, server rebuilding, resource upgrades, DNS management and high-availability functionality. Storage is based on a distributed Ceph architecture, allowing the VPS environment to remain independent from the local disks of one individual compute node.

Linux and Windows workloads are supported. Common Linux options include Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, while customers can also deploy preconfigured environments for typical web applications and server software. Resources can be expanded as requirements increase, making the cloud service useful for websites, development systems, business applications and other workloads that need more control than ordinary shared hosting.

The Custom Cloud option offers greater flexibility by allowing processor, memory and SSD resources to be configured separately. Businesses that need isolated networking can use Virtual Private Cloud, combining multiple virtual machines with private IP addressing, firewall rules, VPN connectivity and load balancing. Traffic inside the private network is separated from ordinary Internet transfer usage.

For workloads requiring dedicated physical resources, Dedicated Servers provide single-tenant hardware with configurable memory, storage, RAID and networking options. Managed firewall services and private network configurations can also be added. Managed Dedicated Servers extend this model with ongoing technical assistance for customers that want dedicated hardware without handling every operating-system and infrastructure task themselves.

The company also offers Private Cloud configurations. Smaller environments can run virtualization on a dedicated physical server, while more advanced deployments combine multiple physical systems into isolated virtualization clusters. Supported virtualization technologies have included VMware ESXi, KVM/VMM and VirtualBox, depending on the required configuration.

Traditional Web Hosting remains available for customers that do not need server administration. These accounts use Singapore SSD infrastructure and support multiple websites, databases, email and backups. The hosting environment benefits from the same redundant infrastructure approach used elsewhere in the platform, making it more suitable for customers who want conventional hosting while keeping their services physically located in Singapore.

Backup services operate under the CloudSave name. Plans are available for computers and servers, with scheduled and incremental backups, browser-based administration, restoration functions and AES-256 encryption. Server backup supports Linux and Windows and can integrate with hosting environments using cPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin.

Networking services include Load Balancing based on HAProxy, with TCP and HTTP traffic distribution, health checks, reverse proxying, round-robin and least-connections algorithms. Redundant load-balancer configurations are also available. Security options range from managed host-based firewalls to shared and dedicated hardware firewall appliances for VPS, dedicated-server, colocation and private-cloud customers.

System administration is another important part of the service range. SimplerCloud can handle operating-system updates, server hardening, troubleshooting, migrations, web and mail servers, databases, Linux and Windows administration, WordPress problems, hosting control panels and network configuration. Customers in Singapore can also use technical assistance for physical servers, switches, firewalls, NAS devices and office networking.

Domain services cover common generic extensions as well as Singapore and Malaysian country-code domains and numerous newer extensions. DNS hosting is also available. SSL options include domain-validation, organization-validation, extended-validation, wildcard, multi-domain and code-signing certificates from major certificate authorities including Sectigo, GlobalSign, DigiCert, Thawte and RapidSSL.

The company supports English, Indonesian and Chinese, which is useful for its regional customer base in Southeast Asia. English is fully supported throughout the core hosting, billing and technical-service environment.