Jelastic is a cloud platform software vendor that provides multi-cloud

Platform as a Service Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a category of cloud computing services that allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing ...

-based on container technology for hosting service providers, ISVs, telecommunication companies, enterprises and developers. The platform is available as public cloud in over 70 data centers, as well as virtual and on-premises servers. Jelastic provides support of

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, PHP,

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, Python, Go environments, custom Docker containers and

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clusters. Jelastic's co-founder and CEO was Ruslan Synytskyy.

History

Jelastic was founded in 2011 as a public cloud. Initially, it was a Platform as a Service specifically targeted on Java hosting. In 2012, the company received the Java Duke Choice Award. From 2013 to 2015, the platform added support of PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, .NET and support of Docker containers. The latest runtime addition was in 2017 by integrating GoLang. In 2014, a private cloud solution was introduced, and by 2015, the platform could be used as a hybrid and multi-cloud service. Jelastic closed a set of funding rounds from

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, Almaz Capital Partners, Foresight Ventures and Maxfield Capital. In June 2013, Jelastic announced the hiring of

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, a former Microsoft architect and contributor to MS-DOS, as a senior adviser. In July 2013, Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of PHP, joined Jelastic as a senior adviser. In November 2014, the creator of the Java programming language

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and Bruno Souza joined the Jelastic team. In 2018, Jelastic received Duke's Choice Award for the second time. In 2021, Virtuozzo acquired Jelastic technology and business to offer First Full-Stack Cloud Management Solution for Service Providers. The acquisition comes after a 10-year partnership between the two companies.

Services

Supported Technologies

* Languages:

, PHP,

, Python, .NET, Go * Virtualization:

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, Virtuozzo * Load-Balancers:

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, Apache, HAProxy, Varnish, LiteSpeed * Application Servers: Tomcat,

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, NGINX PHP, NGINX Ruby, SmartFoxServer, Railo, Spring Boot, TomEE,

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* Databases:

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* VPS: CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows VPS * Additional: Maven, Memcached, Storage * Integrated IDEs:

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Installation

The platform can be installed on bare metal or any IaaS as public cloud, VPC, private on-premise, hybrid or multi-cloud. Jelastic PaaS can be installed and fully configured by Jelastic Ops team, or this can be performed automatically on top of Google Cloud, MS Azure and Digital Ocean, as well as on top of bare metal using an ISO image. The platform configuration includes integration with billing systems like WHMCS, Odin System Automation, Cleverbridge or custom billing if required.

Pricing Model

Jelastic provides a

pay-as-you-use Pay-as-you-use (or pay-per-use) is a payment model in cloud computing that charges based on resource usage. The practice is similar to the utility bills (e.g. electricity), where only actually consumed resources are charged. One major benefit of t ...

pricing model within public cloud. Resources are charged on an hourly base: RAM and CPU (cloudlet resource unit), Disk space, External traffic, Public IP and SSL. The price for each resource unit depends on the chosen hosting provider and can be estimated on a monthly, daily or hourly base within dev panel. Cloud hosting expenses can be tracked and optimized using built-in billing details for whole account or specific application. Private cloud installation is charged monthly on a license base per physical server. There are two types of licensing - for installation with further self-administering and for installation with managed services. Partnerships with service providers is built on a franchise model with revenue sharing.

Partners

Jelastic is installed by a wide range of hosting providers and telcos, among them are DataCenter Finland,

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, eApps, infomaniak, PrimeTel, Elastx, innofield, CloudJiffy and others.

Customers

Jelastic is used by system integrators and companies from different spheres (finance, software, sports, gaming etc.) like the

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, GMV, G5 Games, Miele, Philips Lighting and others.

References

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