Own ARM Servers To Take On AWS, DigitalOcean

A couple of years ago, the team behind Online Labs started a long ambitious project — instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean and other VPS providers, it designed its own hardware for its cloud solution. Online Labs managed to squeeze 912 separate computers in a single server rack. But the best part is that the company also kept the best of both worlds — dedicated servers with the flexibility of virtualization.

“We started this project two and half years ago, and we designed our own hardware from scratch as we couldn’t find what we wanted on the market at the time,” VP of Product Yann Léger told me in a phone interview. “We used an ARM architecture because we wanted a scalable physical cloud.”

When you start a server on Online Labs, it takes about 30 seconds. Yet, the company isn’t just launching a virtual machine on an already running server, it is actually booting an ARM server just for you.learn more --->http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/13/online-labs-designed-its-own-arm-servers-to-take-on-aws-digitalocean/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity