Your best customers will pay you more for a

Premium
Best-practice
Modern Stack

 

With Idealstack you can offer your clients a modern best-practice hosting cluster on AWS, the kind of infrastructure that companies like Google or Netflix would use.

Your best customers will pay you more for the comfort this provides, and it will let you handle load spikes and special events without having to go scrambling for extra server capacity.

Providing a premium hosting stack will help you win great customers, keep them, and is a valuable revenue stream for the long-term

 

How does Idealstack work?

<?php
//How do I use highly-available sessions across my cluster using DynamoDB?
// It happens automatically, just use normal PHP session functions:
session_start();
$_SESSION['Normal Session Stuff'] = 'Easy!';

//How do I send email using AWS's Simple Email Service?
// Just use normal PHP mail functions:
mail('joe.blogs@example.com',
    "Here's an email through SES!",
    "Just sent you this with the normal PHP mail command");

//How do I read and write files on a highly-available clustered file store?
// Just use normal PHP file IO:
$file_contents = file_get_contents("myfile.txt");
file_put_contents("myfile.txt", "How easy was that");

//How do I connect to a clustered, highly available mysql-compatible database?
// Idealstack sets all this up for you, 
// including the alias 'database' for your db hostname
$mysqli = new mysqli('database', 'your_user', 'your_pass', 'your_db');


//How do I compress and minify the output of my PHP
// app to get higher performance and google rank?
// mod_pagespeed does it automatically:
echo "<!-- Do nothing, it happens automatically with google's mod_pagespeed -->";

//How do I make my app autoscale?
// It'll happen automatically:
$todo = null;

No need to change your code

 

Idealstack can cluster-enable any PHP app, while still letting it take advantage of the power of AWS. It does this by supporting all the normal PHP functions but transparently mapping them to the appropriate AWS services.

You don't need to change your code or use the AWS API, and this also means you can run any PHP app like Wordpress, Laravel apps, or your own custom code, even legacy apps.

 

 

Affordable hosting "for the masses" with premium options for your special clients

Idealstack can run many sites per server cluster; it doesn't require you to to create a unique hosting environment for each client.  This is key to supporting "regular" webhosting, rather than just providing an option for massive sites willing to pay thousands each month in hosting.  However unlike many shared hosting systems, Idealstack runs each site in an secure private container, providing isolation and security from other sites.

You can limit small low-volume sites to one hosting container instance, but for larger "premium" customers - allow them to autoscale so when they get a lot of hits their site spreads out accross more servers to handle the load.  This is a premium service that you can charge them appropriately for, make this a feature of your higher end hosting plans and don't forget that in the past this might have cost them more than a thousand dollars a month.  Do it all in a single hosting cluster with economies of scale, an affordable cost, and no need for your team to learn and manage two different systems.