Evolution of hosting

Last week, cloud provider Parking.ru launched a new line of virtual hosting tariff plans for Windows 2008 called W! N. It would seem commonplace, but the site indicates that this is a new, almost revolutionary approach to hosting on Windows!


Let's start with the basics, technological backend. And the basis is not just a dedicated server, which is packed by customers, but a cluster solution, which is used now in almost all products of Parking.ru. Thanks to this, users get the necessary amount of resources and do not “pinch” each other.

By the way about resources, in tariffs such a seemingly important item as a limit on resources disappeared! Thanks to the same clustering and the use of the latest version of IIS and other technologies, resource allocation for sites occurs dynamically, and the limits have become flexible. Therefore, with a sharp increase in the load on the site, visitors will not experience an access error due to lack of resources, and the site will simply open a little slower, since request from the user will fall into the "virtual queue". Now your customers will not go to competitors because of that your site is “not working”.

Another important point is the support of the most advanced technologies, including ASP.NET 2.0 (including 3.0, 3.5) and 4.0, ASP, PHP5, SSI, MVC 3.0, MySQL, MS SQL 2008, etc.
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By the way, W! N is the first in Russia tariffs that are supported by the recently released Microsoft Web Deploy , which allows you to host your website directly from the Visual Studio work environment!

From the point of view of the client interface and the accounting of resources, there have also been dramatic changes! First of all, this is the concept of “ Single Storage ” (Storage), now the user is allocated a place in one shared virtual storage within the framework of which he chooses what resources and in what volume he needs. Suppose you need only a static page and a lot of space for mail, then you simply reduce the size of the space for the site and increase the limit by mail! Thanks to this, the tariffs have become really flexible!

Secondly, the W! N UI interface, which helps to manage the distribution, shows the current state and the resources used.


In general, it is difficult to describe W! N UI, it's easier to try it, all the more so now there is a promotion for the starting tariff plan W! N 1 which you can buy for only 40 rubles + 14 days of the test for free!

ps Please everyone who does not like promotions and sales, do not need to spoil my karma, many promotional offers are interesting :)