GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
GoDaddy supported container management and container-as-a-service products, including (since 2016) ElasticHosts and Springs.io (e.g. Elastic Containers), are discontinued under those brands as of June 2020. However, GoDaddy development services, SDKs, and other projects are now hosted at GoDaddy Engineering and some are available open source.N/A
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSprings.io is unlike other cloud hosting providers. Our reactive servers dynamically resize based on demand, and you only pay for your consumption, not your provisioning. This means you can save money and not sacrifice performance.
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued
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Ratings
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
8.0
5 Ratings
2% below category average
Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings6.95 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Platform access control00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
Development environment creation00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Development environment replication00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Issue recovery00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
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IBM Cloud Private
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinuedIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinuedIBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Unlike other providers, Springs doesn’t use a pre-built container solution, instead opting for their own software built from the ground up.
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IBM
Clearly, the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] tool is very useful when you have multiple services and each service is connecting with other services through APIs in different networks. To manage this type of complex network, [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] is very useful. It comes with a license that can increase the billing of your project so make sure if your application network mesh, monitoring cannot be managed on your own then you can use it. If your application is not very complex then you have many tools available like Grafana, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, which you can integrate individually with your cluster and implement. In this type of scenario, it is better to not use [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] and it will serve your purpose as well.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Container hosting, cloud virtualization
  • Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
  • Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control
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IBM
  • Layers transparently onto existing applications
  • Allows control of access and rules to be developed
  • Creates metrics for usage
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Provide more options at lower costs
  • It would be nice to see that expanded out to more distributions. What would be potentially even better though is templates. Some hosts can deploy ready-to-run WordPress/Drupal sites, LAMP instances, ownCloud instances, etc. at the drop of a hat. If Springs could replicate this with their container hosting they’d immediately appeal to a much, much wider audience;
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IBM
  • Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
  • Better technical user guidance.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
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IBM
Training and usage support available
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.
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IBM
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • In the beginning I wasn’t sure what I should set it to for my web server, so I left it. After a while the Average usage area begins showing how much resource the container is demanding and from that more adequate limits can be set.
  • Springs is drastically cheaper than running 4 OVH servers, and a little cheaper than running nano instances on AWS.
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IBM
  • It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
  • One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
  • It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
  • It reduced the number of labor hours.
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ScreenShots

GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued Screenshots

Screenshot of Springs are reactive servers which scale automatically to the load. That's why you don't need to pay for unused capacity at all.