Lunacloud is a

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Infrastructure as a Service provider based in Lisbon,

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History

Lunacloud was founded in 2011 by António Miguel Ferreira and Charles Nasser and launched its services to the general public on . It provided cloud computing infrastructure as a service, such as

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s and cloud storage, and Cloud Jelastic hosting.

Reception

The performance and cost of Lunacloud's offerings were favourably rated in TechWeekEurope

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and CloudSpectator when compared to

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and

Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of ...

Business model

Lunacloud had three base products — Cloud Servers, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic. Lunacloud helped design, build, and operate workloads across both environments depending on the individual needs of the customer.

Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers provided scalable virtual servers using Parallels and

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Cloud Storage

The API was also compatible with the Amazon S3 API.

Cloud Jelastic

Cloud

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(

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for Java Elastic) was an unlimited

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and Container based

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within a single platform that provides high availability of applications, automatic vertical and horizontal scaling via containerization to software development clients, enterprise businesses,

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, System Admins,

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Locations

Headquarters

Lunacloud headquarters were in Lisbon.

Customer service centers

* UK:

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* Portugal: Lisbon * France:

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* Spain:

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* Russia:

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Website

Lunacloud localized storefronts were differentiated by

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and

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References

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