Lunacloud
Lunacloud is a cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service provider based in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud computing provider Cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service Web hosting |
| Founded | November 21, 2011 Lisboa, PT |
| Founder | António Miguel Ferreira Charles Nasser |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | António Miguel Ferreira (CEO) |
| Products | Cloud Server, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic |
| Services | E-commerce, Cloud computing |
Number of employees | 54 |
| Website | lunacloud various national sites |
History
Lunacloud was founded in 2011 by António Miguel Ferreira and Charles Nasser and launched its services to the general public on June 1, 2012. It provided cloud computing infrastructure as a service, such as cloud servers[2] and cloud storage,[3] and Cloud Jelastic hosting.[4]
Reception
The performance and cost of Lunacloud's offerings were favourably rated in TechWeekEurope[5] TechRepublic[6] and CloudSpectator[7] when compared to Rackspace and Amazon EC2.
Business model
Lunacloud provides cloud servers, cloud storage, and cloud jelastic. The design, build, and workloads are operated across both environments depending on a customer's individual needs.
Cloud Storage
The API was also compatible with the Amazon S3 API.
Cloud Jelastic
Cloud Jelastic (acronym for Java Elastic) was an unlimited PaaS and Container based IaaS within a single platform that provides high availability of applications, automatic vertical and horizontal scaling via containerization to software development clients, enterprise businesses, DevOps, System Admins and Developers.
Locations
Headquarters
Lunacloud headquarters were in Lisbon, Portugal.
Website
Lunacloud localized storefronts were differentiated by top-level domain and country code:
| Region | Sovereignty | Domain name |
|---|---|---|
| Asia | ||
 China | lunacloud.cn | |
| Europe | ||
 Portugal | lunacloud.pt | |
 France | lunacloud.fr | |
 Germany | lunacloud.de | |
 Italy | lunacloud.it | |
 Netherlands | lunacloud.nl | |
 Spain | lunacloud.es | |
 United Kingdom | lunacloud.co.uk | |
 Russia | lunacloud.ru | |
| North America | ||
 United States | lunacloud.com |
References
- "About". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- "Cloud Servers". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- "Cloud Storage". Lunacloud. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- "Cloud Jelastic". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- Judge, Peter (2012-07-19). "How big is a piece of cloud". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- Rodrigues, Thoran (2012-08-07). "Side-by-side comparisons of IaaS service providers". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- "Lunacloud, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace Cloud Compared | Cloud Spectator". Cloud Spectator. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
