SingleHop Plan To Launch Cloud Services Platform

Dedicated and managed web hosting provider SingleHop has announced plans to launch a new cloud hosting platform, which will consist of several new cloud services that will be rolled out this spring.

According to the Chicago-based company, the new cloud hosting platform is called "Cascade" after a skydiving term that describes two lines that run together into a single line. "[T]he name of the program is relevant, because our goal here has been to develop a cloud product that integrates exceptionally well with dedicated servers," SingleHop communications vice president Dan Salcedo said in a statement.

"The current integration of cloud computing and dedicated hosting is cumbersome, and as such, the level of adoption from dedicated server users has been low. Like the cascading lines of a skydiver, Cascade is a suite of cloud services that will be integrated with SingleHop dedicated servers to offer all of the great functionality of cloud computing."

When bolted onto SingleHop dedicated servers, Cascade will offer additional security and stability over a shared cloud model and the ability to instantly scale in a variety of ways and pay only for what is used. It also enables high-availability and fault-tolerant hosting, as well as the ability to isolate sites from one another, and to access data from any computer, mobile device and other methods.

SingleHop president and chief executive officer Zak Boca said Cascade represents a new approach, which will be the answer to what's been missing from both the cloud computing and dedicated hosting markets. "Cascade is the most exciting announcement that we've had to date, and we feel is a real game changer to the dedicated server market.... It will do so by offering an inexpensive upgrade to dedicated servers that integrates the benefits and minimizes the issues of both technologies. We're expecting a huge adoption rate from our clients."

SingleHop employees went skydiving in November to celebrate the company's 19.5 percent third quarter growth over the previous quarter, and Cascade is not the only skydiving-themed service rolled out by SingleHop. In February, it launched a new reseller program called Tandem (tandem.singlehop.com), designed to provide resellers complete scalability, control, and flexibility in their offerings by taking advantage of all of SingleHop's partnerships and technologies.