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

Score7.1 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is GoDaddy Container-as-a-Service (ElasticHosts, Springs.io), discontinued?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Container Management

Media

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

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Team Lead in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Container hosting, cloud virtualization
Elastic capacity scaling and pay-per-use billing
Linux kernel containerization technologies for container isolation and control

Cons

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;

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

AWS

Other Software Used

Apache Spark, Apache Tomcat, Cassandra, MongoDB, AWS Lambda

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine