A new image is now ready on City Cloud. This time is the turn of a known piece of software called Joomla!.

If you are eager to test this, go first to the App Center and provision a server with this template.

Then read the rest of the post to follow the instructions to start using it right away.

What’s Joomla! exactly?

Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS), which means it’s a complete solution that allows you to deploy a website, customize its look and feel and best of all, administer the content yourself.

Thanks to a great administration site, you can change whatever you please, from the general layout of the website to displaying texts in different languages, images, listings, news and much more.

Joomla! has been around for quite some time now, and has evolved to keep up with modern times.

What who better to explain this than the Joomla! official site itself? Here is an excellent description of all the features.

Installation instructions

As usual, we have deployed a base installation already configured, but there are additional steps you need to perform to start using it.

First, to test the installation, you will have to redirect your browser to the server you just created. Just edit your hosts file as an administrator (usually c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts under Windows or /etc/hosts in Linux) and add the following line (replacing the IP address with yours):

your_server_ip_address joomlasite.dev

Once you have done that, go to your preferred browser and paste the following address: http://joomlasite.dev. If all went right, this will lead you to the default site.

Remember that the credentials for the default admin user are located on the description tab of your newly created virtual machine. You should change them immediately to avoid any nosy users.

To go to the admin area, just point your browser to: http://joomlasite.dev/administrator/.

Time to get your hands dirty

This is of course, a dummy installation, but where do you go from here is up to you. For instance, you can use this base setup and modify it, pointing it to your domain name (which requires using our control panel to fiddle with the DNS settings).

Or you can create a new site, using this as a starting point. The important thing to note is that you have all the tools and software pre-installed for Joomla! 2.5.4 to work.

Whether you want a dedicated server for a single installation, or several ones, it depends entirely on what your needs are.

Last but not least, make sure to let us know if you have suggestions for this image or new ones.

From time to time, we get excited due to a big launch regarding base operating systems. This time is the turn of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is a great step forward for anyone using Linux.

It comes packed with the latest bells and whistles, so read on to know more about it.

And if you are impatient enough, well, the image is readily available on the App Center for you to start using it.

What is LTS exactly?

LTS stands for Long Term Support. This basically means that LTS versions are maintained for a given period of time, with security and important updates.

The server version (and starting with 12.04, the desktop version as well) has 5 years of support from the release date, which was just recently in April 2012.

This is ideal for a production server, where we want the latest stable version of everything. Of course, keeping the software up-to-date is still your responsibility but it’s better go to sleep knowing that there is somebody behind the distribution, making sure everything is top notch.

For a detailed view of LTS, you can go to the official Ubuntu Wiki

Tell me about the good stuff

It’s been two years since the previous LTS release, and we already know what that implies in the technology landscape. Yes, a swarm of changes and improvements.

And Canonical, the creators of Ubuntu, has been hard at work on several fronts. Let’s get to the nitty-gritty:

The little UI that could

Despite strong opposition at the beginning, Canonical sailed through the winds and came up standing. We are talking about the new user interface that replaced Gnome, Unity.

The improvements to the interface are quite noticeable, both in terms of usability and functionality. Whether you like it or not, one has to respect Canonical sticking to its long term vision. And it comes in a moment where there is a fundamental shift in interface design, judging from Windows 8, tablets, cellphones and all kind of gadgets that are aimed towards touch and easily distinguishable elements, not to mention, pretty and minimalistic.

But hey, this is Linux we are talking about. You don’t like Unity? You can install other ones, and there are special bundles that come from the ground up with another interface (i.e. Kubuntu comes with KDE by default).

Getting back to what pertains to us, Unity is not available on the server edition (although one can choose to have it during the installation). Nonetheless, if you so desire, you can still install it after provisioning the server.

Latest Kernel

The Linux Kernel is the heart of GNU/Linux, it contains the blood of our server and filters it through all of our applications. While the Kernel can be updated, it’s a tedious process for those who don’t do it frequently.

But not to fear, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS comes with a very modern Kernel, version:  3.2.0-23.

Up-to-date official repositories

The Kernel is one thing, but we end up using the applications. So, it’s imperative that we have access to the latest versions, that may contain fixes and enhancements. Compiling is always an option, but it’s recommended that one source is kept to ensure ease of use when it comes to upgrading our server.

Thanks to Apt and Synaptic (excellent package manager from Debian), we can easily keep our servers tidy and up-to-date.

Improvements all over the place

Last but not least, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS comes with improvements on all areas. Be that file systems, scheduling, and most importantly for us, a great deal of enhancements for servers that run in the cloud.

The list goes on and on, so we suggest that you check the official Ubuntu website.

Time to get our hands dirty

Where do you get it? Simple, if you have a City Cloud account already, just log into your control panel and go to the App Center. You will find it right there.

If you don’t have an account, it’s easy, go here to get started.

In a matter of minutes you will have a brand new Ubuntu Server 12.04 64-bit ready to be used for whatever you need.

Our App Center is getting a bit crowded, with all kind of images to choose from. As time passes, old operating systems give way to newer versions with more features, fixes and performance.

We have decided to get the broom out and remove some old ones.

Keep reading to know which are the unfortunate ones.

So long…

So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish. The images we removed from the listing are old versions of popular operating systems, that have been already superseded by newer and better ones.

Here is the current line up of casualties:

• GNU/Linux CentOS 5.4
• GNU/Linux CentOS 5.5
• GNU/Linux Debian 5.02
• GNU/Linux Debian 5.0.6 64-bit
• GNU/Linux Fedora Core 13 64-bit
• GNU/Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5.5 64-bit

As of now, you can no longer provision servers with the aforementioned images.

But, what if?

What if, for some reason, you require one of the deleted images?

Do not despair, since we didn’t actually delete them. We just disabled them for listing. So, if you want them again just give us a call or send us an email and we’ll enable them back just for you.

Also important, current images created from those images are independent from the templates, so nothing will happen to them.

We will of course, continue adding new images and upgrading versions as we continue into the rest of the year.

On our App Center we already have several flavors of GNU/Linux, including Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Red Hat, Fedora Core and CentOS.

OpenSuse wasn’t there but still you could install previous versions using the provided ISO files. However, what’s the point of having a really flexible platform if you have to install the operating system yourself, every time you want to create a new server?

That question has been answered, OpenSuse 12.1 is now available on City Cloud.

OpenSuse 12.1 details

This version was released the 16th of November, 2011. Among its numerous improvements and fixes we can highlight the following:

• GNOME Shell 3.2
• The latest from KDE, XFCE and LXDE
• ownCloud
• A tool for managing btrfs snapshots: Snapper
• Chromium 17 in the standard repository
• Overall performance improvements
• Many bug fixes

For a detailed list of changes and enhancements, you can peruse the official OpenSuse 12.1 portal.

Already here

You can quickly go and start your own VM with OpenSuse 12.1 right away. Just head to the App Center, select the image and click on Create.

After a few minutes you’ll be good to go.

Just recently we added an image with eCommerce software, called Magento. Naturally it wasn’t the only one out there, so this time we are unveiling another one to you.

The image is already available on our App Center, so keep on reading to know the details.

Prestashop

Prestashop is a virtual store software that allows you to easily sell your products online. Through a back-end you can add categories, products, pricing, images and even your store locations.

Prestashop comes packed with a lot of functionality but even so you can extend your options by getting new modules and themes.

Best of all, it´s open source and thus free to download and modify at your will. However, if you need some extra like training or customized modules, you can contact the developers directly at the Prestashop official website.

Image details

This City Cloud image is fully self-contained. This means that it comes with all the components needed to run Prestashop. This includes the web server, PHP support and the database server.

We have decided to use Nginx as the web server giving your server the ability to handles a great deal of connections.

Here are all the versions of the software installed:

• Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2.1 64-bit
• Web server: Nginx 1.0.14
• Database server: MySQL Server 5.5
• Scripting: PHP 5.3 (FPM)

To make things really easy for you, we’ve setup a basic installation of Prestashop. You can start customizing it immediately or install another one if you want since all the requirements have been met.

You can check the test site by adding a temporary URL to your hosts file: prestashopsite.com; and then accessing it through your favorite browser. Remember to use a real domain afterwards.

To access the control panel, you can do it through your temporary address: prestashopsite.com/admin45. You can then change all the settings you want.

Final comments

As usual, this is just the beginning. The real work begins by adding all of your products into the store, doing continuous customer support, maintaining the site.

Nonetheless, this is a great way to test the waters and begin to make your business grow through an online store.

WordPress is the software behind one of the most widely used blog platforms. That’s right, it’s an entire platform that is also used to build entire websites due to its flexibility and hundreds of excellent plugins, many of them free.

Since WordPress is quite heavy and resource intensive, we have decided to build an image using Nginx instead of Apache, which should give you a boost in terms of performance.

Already in City Network

WordPress is of course, already available on our shared hosting plan here at City Network. It’s blatantly easy thanks to our 1-click installations.

But sometimes you need something extra, like a dedicated server where you can tweak your WordPress setup with specific server settings.

This new image, already available on our City Cloud App Center comes pre-packaged with WordPress installed. It’s a dummy installation of course, but you can use it to base your site off of that or use it as an example.

The installation is completely independent, meaning that you can actually put several blogs in the same server, as many as you want.

Installation details

We have installed Nginx as the web server of choice, which is better suited for a lot of concurrent users due to its low memory footprint and optimizations in general.

Since the server contains both the web server and the database (MySQL), it’s recommended that you use at least a standard or medium profile if you have a highly visited site. You can always experiment with the server settings and even if you select the smallest profile, we made sure it works out of the box.

Here are the specific versions of the software installed:

• Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 64-bit 6.0.2.1
• Web server: Nginx version 0.7.67
• Database: MySQL Server: 5.1.49
• Blog platform: WordPress 3.3.1

To quickly check your WordPress installation, you need to edit your client hosts file (usually /etc/hosts on Linux or \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) as an administrator and add the following:

your_newly_server_ip wordpresssite.com

Afterwards, point your favorite browser to http://wordpresssite.com (do not omit the http:// part) and you should have access to the blog front-page, fresh out of the oven.

You can start to modify your blog by going to http://wordpressite.com/wp-admin/, the default credentials are on your virtual machine description. Make sure you change that after your first login.

One last note, this dummy domain needs to be changed as soon as you setup a real one. Make sure to enter WordPress admin panel and change it before you switch to the new domain.

Final Comments

Setting up WordPress is not that hard, but even so this image will save you precious time. Or if you wanted to learn how to tweak an installation, you can do it safely.

This setup is just the beginning, and if hopefully you are one of the lucky ones that has a popular blog, you might want to add more servers, move the database to another one, or play with the server settings.

In any case, this image is a great starting point and we believe it won’t disappoint you.

As usual, if you have any suggestions or comments, we’d love to hear them.

If you are a business owner that works in the retail industry, you have probably dealt with things like inventory, stock, providers, supply chain and everything related to selling products directly to costumers.

Moving all of that into the web is a logical step. Internet is the ultimate shop window and sooner or later, every business must face this decision.

Now, fortunately, you are not starting from scratch. Let us tell you why.

What is Magento?

The web landscape got pretty complex in terms of applications tailored to all kinds of needs. One of those are the eCommerce applications that have been built to emulate a store, where you can add products and provide a virtual mall to your users, complete with online transactions and payment systems integration.

Since we’re building City Cloud images with pre-made software, we couldn’t overlook this. In that regard, we are now bringing you one of the most complex ones, Magento.

Magento is a complete eCommerce platform that you can use to base your online business upon.

Here are some of its most important features from their website:

• Catalog browsing and management
• Marketing promotions and tools
• Analytics and reporting
• Product Browsing
• Online Cart and Checkout
• Customer service

And plenty more. Of course, the entire process of converting your business into Magento or any other eCommerce solution, requires that you be knowledgeable about servers, databases and online infrastructure. Or that you hire a trusty professional.

The important thing to remember is that this is a must if you want to remain competitive. Even if you don’t sell online, the publicity and online presence adds value to your company.

Installation details

Magento as a complex system, requires quite a big of processing power. While it can be installed on a shared web hosting, it’s not recommended.

You will need at least a dedicated server, but you are in good hands since this is City Cloud, home of our dedicated virtual servers platform. We took special care to leave this working even with the smallest configuration so you can start developing and testing right away. We also tossed in Magento sample data as you will see the minute you connect to the default site.

But, what about supporting a great amount of users? Not a problem! You start with the smallest server, and scale up using our platform (with a couple of clicks! I never get tired of mentioning that). Just keep in mind that you should adapt your server configuration to its new capacity if you go up, or down for that matter.

The server comes pre-installed with the following software:

Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2.1 64-bit

Web server: Apache 2

Database: MySQL server 5.x

eCommerce: Magento 1.6.2 (Community Edition)

Additional: Zend server for additional performance. And all modules needed to run Magento (cURL, Graphics Library, etc).

Finishing the installation

To finalize the installation of Magento, there is an additional step that you need to perform. This is because Magento generates an encryption key during install stage that it’s used to save certain configurations in the database.

Fortunately, we have setup everything else and the remaining steps are really straight forward. But just in case, here they are.

1) There are two ways to access the server. Using a dummy domain name, that you can set by editing your client hosts file (usually /etc/hosts on Linux or \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) as an administrator and adding the following:

your_newly_server_ip magentosite.com

1.1) Then, just point your browser to http://magentosite.com and follow the installation steps (2).

1.2) Or alternatively, if you have already pointed a domain name to the server IP address, you will have to update the corresponding Apache Virtual host file, which is located in /etc/apache2/sites-available/magentosite.com

There, just change the line:

ServerName magentosite.com

For (replace as necessary):

ServerName www.your_domain_name.com

Remember to restart Apache 2 with the following command on the server (as root): apachectl restart

2) Follow the instructions. Of particular importance is to enter “/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock” (without the double quotes) when asked for MySQL host. And when asked for the “Base URL”, if you don’t have a domain, use http://magentosite.com.

Once you have completed all the steps, you will have your own Magento installation ready to be used.

Final Comments

This is the first step to help your business grow. And while you don’t need a dedicated server for a small website, you can always have a combination of a shared web hosting account (here in City Network) and when your users go to your virtual store, they are then redirected transparently to the dedicated virtual server.

Last but not least, this Magento installation is free but you can always upgrade to their enterprise edition (on the Magento website) to get tailored support and customization.

If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment or tweet about it. We are always listening.

Since some time there is a lot of buzz around clouds and cloud computing. Everyone should have it and move his services to virtual servers. Is it really something worth dooing or is it just good marketing around it? We had a quick interview with blogger Maciej Wilczyński about cloud computing and City Cloud.

Tell us a bit about yourself, what is your profession and how it all started?

I am a web, desktop and mobile applications programmer. I work in a small local Company and I sometimes study in the evenings. My fascination with computers has begun already in primary school and no one even dared to dream about Windows XP. I wasn’t really interested in hardware – everybody has to know, how computers work in general, I was always fascinated with software only. I couldn’t even think about myself creating even a simple application. Now it is hard for me to imagine, how people cannot do that. Well, I think it is just a feeling you get, which is normal .

What are you doing in your spare time if you have it?

I don’t have that much of a spare time. As I mentioned, I study, work, have my own technical blog, do some freelance work and I also write posts on ITTechBlog.pl. There are times though, when I suddenly loose my Internet access thanks to my Provider, then I like to listen and to compose music.

We are following you on Twitter and blog and we noticed that you like to use cloud services. How important it is for you to work in this environment?

I may say that since couple of months cloud computing is as important to me as my own computer. In some aspects it is even more important. I have all my applications and services source code, SDK for Android and Visual Studio in the clouds. I test all my services there before they go public. Thanks to the cloud computing I can access my data everywhere and whenever I want. RDP client (remote desktop) is installed even on my smartphone.

What you use clouds for most of the time?

Like I said before, I have most of my services and applications there and most of the time I work directly on them. The only exepction there is Windows Phone, since its emulator doesn’t like virtualisation. Such solution has many advantages, even I all of the sudden loose my Internet access or connection, I am sure that my application is safe on my server and left intact. When I want to compile an application, I often set up high parameteres and thanks to it, the process goes much faster compared to other machines.
Of course I also have a second cloud which has lower parameteres, I install IIS on it and use it as a test server for my services in ASP.NET.

How did you come across City Cloud and what your first impression?

It started with a message on Twitter that @citynetwork_pl started to follow me. It didn’t look like another spam account, so I decided to look into their services. I ended up on the website I haven’t seen before and checked the offer. It turned out that it was very attractive.
At the same time I had quite unpleasant situation with other cloud computing service, and I wrote about it on Twitter. I got a response to this tweet from @citynetwork_pl … and that is how it started .

What did you like the most in City Cloud?

It was fast, professional, very nice customer service, large offer, many Operating Systems and apllications, as well as user friendly control panel. Actually it could be easier to ask about what I didn’t like but it can be hard to find .

We work constantly on improvements and we listen to our customers suggestions. Thanks to them we add new .iso images to our application center. Is there anything you think we can improve?

I’d like to be able to install applications from own .iso images. Other than that I cannot really find anything else.

Do you think that cloud computing has a potential, that is still not fully used and explored?

Yes, I agree with that. People talk more and more about cloud computing, but still it is a solution for “IT people”. People who are not that technically advanced don’t really know what cloud computing is and even if they did, they wouldn’t see any purpose and use in it. It would be really good to see a social campaign that would explain to people how easier their professional and personal life would have been with cloud computing.

We hope that our cloud will still work great for you, thank you for the chat and we wish you a nice day.
Thank you and the same to you .

You can find more information about DeWo here:www.webdewo.pl , and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/webDeWo

L.A.M.P. is a known acronym that describes a server with GNU/Linux as the operating system, some version of Apache for serving web files, MySQL as the database and PHP for the preferred scripting language.

Since performance has entered a privileged place due to overall increased complexity of internet sites, a new acronym has surfaced in recent years: L.E.M.P.

The main difference is basically using Nginx (try to pronounce LNMP three times fast) instead of Apache for the webserver. Keep on reading to know if this could be of use to you.

The Russian Webserver

Less known than Apache, with a less fancy site and out of nowhere, this tiny piece of software took the Internet by storm.

Apache has been the king of the world when it comes to sheer number of installations. It grew to a point where it blew the competition out of the water. The problem was that with its approach to modules and multi-process, it chews memory like there is no tomorrow.

Since version two, there are official variants that use different methods of multi-process. Threads for instance are nicer on memory usage but more taxing on CPU and due to the way they work, modules needed to be thread-safe, shortening the list of compatible ones.

Nginx slowly but surely appeared into view, and to make a long story short: Today when we talk about performance, we usually mention Nginx. And even there are some configurations where we still have Apache but behind Nginx, since it’s also a proxy server and load balancer.

Two of the major reasons: less memory footprint and capable of handling a lot more of simultaneous connections. It has its downsides, like having to write redirect rules inside the configuration files (no Apache like htaccess for you) and since it has no modules support, you usually need to reconfigure and recompile if you need to add more functionality. Not a major inconvenience but Apache is great for adding new functionality in real-time (or disabling it if you don’t need it).

This scenario lead to a fierce competion and Apache just announced that the upcoming 2.4 version is going to focus in performance, and they mention Nginx as the main reference. In the end, it doesn’t matter which one has the most performance because we all win.

Let’s get to the details

Well, since we don’t have dynamic loaded modules in Nginx, we also don’t have mod_php (of course), so we have to relay on the standalone version of PHP and communicate through CGI, which is a standard way of connecting web servers with applications that usually spit back dynamically generated HTML.

In this case, we loaded Nginx and used PHP-FPM (website here), which the site describes perfectly: “PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.”. Worth mentioning as well is that we used GNU/Linux Debian 6.0.2.1 64 Bit as the operating system and added alternate caching for PHP called APC.

MySQL is installed as usual, ready to be used.

We also added a test site that you can use to check that everything is working and as a starting point as well. To test the new server, put the following line in your hosts file:

your_virtual_machine_ip samplesite.com

And then just point your browser at http://samplesite.com

The test site is located under /www/samplesite.com and the configuration file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/samplesite.com, ready to be modified at your discretion.

Last comments

While Nginx is geared towards great performance, it’s not a magical solution. This image is setup with default and basic parameters, so you will have to adapt the configuration file according to the capabilities of your virtual machine. Just in case, the default configuration works nicely with even the most basic City Cloud profile (“small”).

In a future article, we’ll tell you how you can tweak Nginx and PHP parameters to squeeze as much juice as you can out of your server.

Nonetheless, you have this image already available in the App Center. You can go there and start using it right now, with a few clicks.

Here at City Network, we have two offers for dedicated servers. In the first one, you can order a physical one, which as soon as it arrives is setup on one of our racks and after the operating system is installed, you can access remotely.

The other one has to do with virtual servers (City Cloud), where the physical layer is abstracted. This gives you the ability to provision your own servers and start using them immediately.

Each case has their own advantages, we’ll briefly describe each provisioning process and let you decide which one is better for your needs.

Physical Servers

Getting a physical server involves several steps, as follows.

Once you hire us to get one, we call the hardware provider (Dell in our case) and wait for several days for the hardware to arrive at our offices in Sweden. With the hardware here, one of our technicians locate a free rack unit, install the server, connect the corresponding cables and power supply and after talking to the customer, the desired operating system is installed.

After a few basic diagnostics and with the operating system ready to go, users are delivered their credentials. After this, you can remotely access your server and start setting up whatever software you wish. At this point, control is up to you and we only intervene for reboots and hardware changes. Although once configured, this is a rare occurrence. The servers we use from Dell have great quality hardware, redundant disks and all kind of components built to last.

We take care, of course, of the network and make sure you have fast connectivity at all times. Top of the line Cisco routers and switches, redundant refrigeration and continuous power ensure you won´t get any hiccups under normal circumstances.

The server runs non-stop until the end of times, or until you decide to stop using it.

Virtual Servers

Virtual dedicated servers or Infrastructure as a Service as it´s commonly known is a way of having your own machine and while the end result is similar, the way to order one is different.

You start by registering an account (here at City Cloud), and when you have confirmed your email and identity, you get access to our control panel. From there, you just click on “New VM”, select the operating system and/or image (some of them come with pre-installed software ready to go) and wait a few minutes.

That´s right, after a few minutes you get a new virtual machine that can be accessed by SSH or VNC. The IP address is assigned automatically so you have everything you need to start installing software.

Servers run continuously until you turn them off, which can be done with literally one click. You can then clone them, erase them, turn them back on or just leave them paused.

Since you pay by the hour and by capacity, you can increase and decrease power and cost between minutes. Choice is really up to you or your application, since this can also be automated.

The right tool

So, as you can see, our Cloud Computing platform has benefits that pop into view. But, does this mean that you need to go over completely to cloud servers? Or negate physical servers altogether?

Not so fast

That´s right, always remember the old adage “the right tool for the job”. There are cases where you need a physical server.

For instance, with a physical server you can go overboard and get a really powerful server just for yourself. Physical servers are the only way to guarantee a complete server free from any overhead possible.

Examples of this are really specific nowadays, for instance, when you need a big database server that uses intensive disk operations. Or you have a game server that needs to handle thousands of users.

The other advantage of using a physical server is that you now exactly where your server is, nobody touches it and there is no underlying software to worry about.

On the other hand, if you are starting out of even so, if you are a medium or big sized company that need to scale, cloud servers are a great fit. Its cost effectiveness is hard to beat and the ability to manage your own private dedicated servers are a remote system administrator’s dream come true. You can “sit” at a virtual console and check for problems, you can do all sorts of changes that would otherwise require you or your trusty technician to be seated at the server rack.

And before we forget, these two options are not mutually exclusive either. We have several customers that have both physical and cloud servers running at the same time.

Conclusions

As you can see, there seems to be a trend. Many people are starting to move their servers into the Cloud (private or public) and some others are starting out directly using virtual servers.

If we had to recommend one to you, it would be virtual servers, since it gives you a lot of control over resources and most importantly, how you spend your money. With physical servers you pay even if nobody is accessing your web server, however with virtual ones, you just pay for resources you use and turn them off the unnecessary ones.

Most worries today about cloud computing have to do with not knowing where the resources are located, but that´s exactly where our expertise comes in. We take care of keeping the physical layer running smoothly while you concentrate on the software side, where you can shine.

Other concerns have to do with performance, how much overhead is a virtual machine running on a networked host? and the storage layer? what about CPU? I´m fighting for usage with other customers? These are valid questions, which we will respond in a future post.

In the meantime, it doesn’t hurt to try City Cloud and we can even offer you some test time if you are unsure, give us the opportunity to pleasantly surprise you.