Introducing Happy Moose hosting – hosting with antlers!

We have not gone completely bananas and launched an animal themed shared hosting company. But we have made a fake one – Happy Moose – as a reference to running such a business in a public cloud using AWS. Here is how it came about!

Shorter time to market for new customers

We have been playing with the idea to deliver our software in a public cloud for long. The reasoning behind this is simple: shorter time to market for our new customers. When launching a service based on a high capacity hosting software like Atomia using on-prem infrastructure, installation and configuration are the biggest time consumers.

No hassle with infrastructure

One of the challenges using an on-prem infrastructure is that everyone sets it up differently and often without considering the requirements too carefully. Therefore, a lot of work goes into adjusting the setup to work with infrastructure. This problem is eliminated offering our customers a prepared AWS setup.

Less complexity, faster launch

Another time consuming part of the time to market phase is configuration. Once you have everything installed you want to configure it to work like the hosting software you already have, which you want to replace with Atomia. While this is somewhat of a contradiction it is essentially the case. By serving a prepared setup that is ready to go we can get around this added complexity. This entices our customers to make just a few changes before launching their new service.

Cost examples

Now, there are some concerns with running hosting in a public cloud. So below we have listed some infrastructure and cost examples for the Happy Moose setup. We can’t guarantee that these are completely accurate for your company, but this gives you some idea. All prices are given in euro with AWS location in Frankfurt.

If you prefer to utilize your on-premise shared hosting and/or cloud resources you will only need the setup in the first table for the Atomia Platform.

On-premise shared hosting
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
Atomia internal server	2 CPU / 4 GB RAM	50
Atomia public server	2 CPU / 4 GB RAM	50
Domain controller	2 CPU / 4 GB RAM	50
Atomia Database	2 CPU / 8 GB RAM	75
Storage / Snapshots	600 GB / 800 GB	130
Network (data / IP)	50 GB / 2 IP’s	10
Total		365
Shared hosting clusters
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
Atomia Domain Registration	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Atomia DNS Master server	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Name server 1	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Name server 2	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Total		70
Miscellaneous
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
Internal DNS resolver	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Puppet master	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Nagios monitoring server	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Daggre stats processing	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
AWStats processing	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
Cron server	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Atomia File System Agent	1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM	10
Installatron	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
Webmail	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Internal mail server	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
Total		200
FTP cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
FTP Server 1	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
FTP Server 2	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
Total		40
Apache Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
Apache Server 1	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Apache Server 2	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Total		80
CloudLinux Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
CloudLinux server 1	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
CloudLinux server 2	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Total		80
IIS Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
IIS server 1	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
IIS server 2	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Total		80
Mail Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
Mail server 1	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Mail server 2	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Total		80
MySQL Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
MySQL server 1	4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM	180
MySQL server 2	4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM	180
Total		360
MS SQL Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
MS SQL server 1	4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM	180
MS SQL server 2	4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM	180
Total		360
PostgreSQL Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
PostgreSQL server 1	4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM	180
PostgreSQL server 2	4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM	180
Total		360
SSH Server Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
SSH server 1	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
SSH server 2	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
Total		40
GlusterFS Storage Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
GlusterFS server 1	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
GlusterFS server 2	2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM	40
Total		80
Load Balancers Cluster
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
LoadBalancer server 1	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
LoadBalancer server 2	1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM	20
Total		40
Storage (for all above)
Role	Specifications	Monthly price
Total amount of storage	10 TB	1100

Example of total costs for shared hosting

As an example, if you would like to offer the following:

1. Atomia platform
2. Domain registration + DNS
3. Apache webhosting
4. FTP
5. Linux email
6. MySQL servers
7. Miscellaneous (webmail, statistics, Installatron)
8. Load balanced shared hosting
9. Total of 5 TB usable storage for webhosting

The total costs for this setup would be 1,910.00 euro per month.

We give you Happy Moose – what will you give to your customers?

We want to make it faster and simpler to launch high capacity and modern hosting services. Happy Moose hosting is our example of how this could work. All the work around it was done in just a couple of weeks – and one has to agree it is looking pretty good. 🙂

Want to see Happy Moose in action? Check it out at happymoose.atomia.com or simply send us a shout out at [email protected]!