The new pricing is part of a Layershift “Spring Sale” which applies to new and existing users until June 20th, 2014 and provides the following typical savings:
"micro" with 1,000GB traffic, 10GB EBS
Competitor: £79 / month
Layershift: £19 / month (75% saving)
"small" with 1,000GB traffic, 160GB disk
Competitor: £91 / month
Layershift: £47 / month (48% saving)
"medium" with 1,000GB traffic, 4GB disk
Competitor: £104 / month
Layershift: £92 / month (12% saving)
"We're blowing the market wide open today by offering our advanced PaaS/IaaS solution at prices significantly below that of even basic IaaS territory", said Damien Ransome, Service Director at Layershift. "This aggressive new pricing, combined with additional savings from pay-per-use billing delivered by Jelastic's unique dynamic scaling features, provides our customers with significantly better ROI than competitive cloud solutions - delivering the full potential of the cloud."
Simplifying Cloud Billing
Cloud hosting services usually require the user to calculate up to 12 different resource types to determine the final price. This causes confusion and makes it hard to compare one provider's true cost with another.
Layershift's Jelastic PaaS removes these complexities. The first 10GB disk usage is included free, so most users don't need to worry about disk usage at all, but if they exceed 10GB they only pay for actual disk consumption - no pre-booking needed. The same applies to traffic, with the first 2GB/hour free (up to 1.5TB/month).
This leaves most users with just a single resource to consider - the cloudlet (Jelastic's composite RAM and CPU resource unit). Layershift have slashed cloudlet prices by 35 - 48%, as well as simplifying their automatic volume discount structure, enabling it to offer enterprise PaaS/IaaS functionality for much less than the competition.
Additional savings through dynamic scalability
Traditional cloud pricing models force users to buy fixed amounts of resources, with variations over time generally handled by adding and removing entire servers. The drawback of this model is that users always have to pay for an amount of resources they're not actually using - buy a 1GB server but only use 800MB, and you're wasting money paying for the extra unneeded 200MB.
In contrast, Jelastic’s unique pay-per-use model with dynamic scalability means that users are only charged for the resources they actually use. The user sets minimum and maximum scaling limits to suit their application's needs and budget, with resources dynamically scaled up and down between those limits. This provides significant savings over competitive solutions.
About Layershift Layershift Limited is a global leader in high-quality managed hosting services with infrastructure in the UK, New York, and Singapore. Layershift’s team of virtualization and hosting industry professionals use more than a decade of experience to consistently deliver end-to-end excellence in all aspects of the company, backed by their renowned technical support team achieving exceptionally high customer satisfaction (rated above 97% in Q1 2014). Find out more about Layershift’s Cloud VPS, Jelastic PaaS at http://www.layershift.com.
