Lately there is a lot of buzz on social media and in the blogging community about a company called clouding.io that is dedicated to the rental of Cloud Servers and that it has Datacenter in Spain. Well, we too are encouraged to try it and give our opinion about what we think of this interesting project, which we liked a lot from the outset, because we have hardly contacted them, they have responded as soon as possible, in Spanish and with precise information.
It is worth noting that VPS servers in SpainThere are many, with different characteristics, qualities and weaknesses, which is why selecting the most appropriate one is an arduous task. But to speed up this process, we are going to describe this platform in detail, giving a sincere impression of what it offers and leaving open the possibility that you try them for free.
What is Clouding.io?
It is a company domiciled in Barcelona - Spain, which is responsible for providing service of Cloud VPS Server rental, with operating systems Linux and Windows, SSD hosting, expandable resources, data redundancy and most importantly billed by the hour.
This platform is entirely based on open source technologies as they are openstack y front, adapted to the requirements and needs of users, bets considerably on the use of tools that are in the public domain and also creates its own structure. Without a doubt, this is an added value, knowing that it is a success story that uses free technology.
What makes Clouding.io different?
clouding.io It is the result of the work of experienced hosting administrators, who have grouped into a single service:
- A wide range of Linux distributions to choose from.
- High performance (20Gbps network, Intel processors and SSDs).
- A 100% redundant platform.
- Rates for hours and use.
- Use of open technologies.
- Extensive monitoring controls.
- Development of customized technologies and carried out by the same team.
- And the most important, the possibility of expanding according to our needs.
The union of all these characteristics makes it a provider of Cloud Servers that can be seen as having high availability, a promising future and a good option for any type of project.
Made in Spain
This platform is domiciled in Spain and its Datacenter They are located in Spain, this is extremely important, especially for those projects that target audiences in this country and throughout Europe. Having your servers in that country, theoretically makes access to it faster and even some SEO experts (I don't know if it's true) say that it is easier to position for a specific country if the server IP is from that country.
Free testing a VPS server
This Spanish company is giving away 5€ so that we can test their servers, in DesdeLinux We have taken advantage of this promotion, creating an account to view the features and verify that everything they offer is true.
For you to enjoy it too, just create an account from here., will request personal data to verify that you are a real user and that you do not have a multi-account.
Once your account is verified and activated you can enjoy your 5€, in our case we have created a server with ubuntu 16.04, although it was also available Debian, Centos, in addition to facilities prepared from Docker, Magento, Prestashop interface and even installations with control panel Plesk y VestaCP.
In our case we have chosen the minimum requirements, once selected and clicking the confirmation button, it did not take a minute to have our server available (¡¡Fabulous!).
Connecting with SSH
In the Firewall tab we can give access to the IP that we want to be able to connect by SSH and in the SSH keys tab we can download the key to connect to our server.
Then with the access data of our server we can execute the following command from our console, replacing with your data:
ssh -i "llave.pem" root@servidor.clouding.host
It will ask us for the access password, which can be found in the servers tab and it will welcome us with this message.
My conclusion on Clouding.io
I have reviewed Clouding.io from head to toe, doing benchmarks, mounting updates and doing some stress tests, the results have been above expectations. I highlight its support and its ability to expand features in real time.
Something that perhaps I have not been able to exploit is how it behaves with visits that are not Spanish, in addition that until now we cannot reduce the disk storage capacity that we hire, although we understand that it is due to technical reasons inherent to the infrastructure.
Nor have I been able to test thousands of real visits, but I assume from the characteristics of its infrastructure that they will not have a major problem. It is quite an inspiring and promising project that I could certainly recommend to anyone.
Very good article, Luigys. I can not test as you wrote, because my ISP does not allow Internet output via SSH. If not, it proved for sure.
I'm going to try it because I have a project that I could put in there and I'm sure it would improve. Thank you!
For pioneers in this with infrastructure in Spain (at various points) I prefer GinerNet.
Whoever knows who is behind will appreciate it.