GoGrid, EdgeCast Partner on Cloud Hosting and CDN
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Content delivery network operator EdgeCast Networks (www.edgecast.com) announced this week that it had partnered with GoGrid (www.gogrid.com), the well known cloud infrastructure hosting service belonging to managed hosting provider ServePath (www.servepath.com), to provide a cloud hosting service with integrated content delivery.
According to the press release, CDN will be available as part of a "hybrid cloud hosting" service, the term now being used generally to describe systems of connected dedicated and cloud hosting resources.
The product is called GoGrid CDN – and a lengthy description of the service is available on the GoGrid website. The CDN service is now available to existing customers, as well as any new customers, through their control panels. CDN-based delivery via North American, European, Asian and Australian PoPs is priced at 25 cents per GB for large files and 30 cents per GB for small objects.
Though it isn't explicitly described as a white-label or reseller agreement in the announcement, it stands to reason that the partnership between GoGrid and Edgecast at least roughly fits the mold of EdgeCast's white label program, which is specifically designed to enable hosting providers to deliver the EdgeCast CDN directly to their customers.
GoGrid customers can provision cloud computing infrastructure, including servers, load balancers and cloud storage, almost instantly and with a commitment as short as an hour. Users now can easily provision CDN services as part of that process.
According to GoGrid, customers of ServePath or ColoServe can provision CDN through GoGrid without actually provisioning any cloud servers.
"This is exciting because it offers a one-stop solution to companies regardless of their size," says Michael Sheehan, technology evangelist for GoGrid, quoted in the announcement. "Established enterprises can quickly extend their existing corporate infrastructure on an as-needed basis, and young companies can deploy content and services without paying for hardware or other complex hosting arrangements. This lets them focus on their core business - and not the worries of infrastructure deployment, maintenance, or depreciating assets."
