What is java Hosting

Java is a modern programming language, very popular and actively developed. Java Virtual Machine provides maximum portability and isolation. There are numerous frameworks for Java that ease developer work like Springs, Struts, JSF, GWT, Grails, Stripes, Play, Zkoss, Wicket, Tapestry and others. All these can be used in our Java hosting with dedicated JVM. We recommended only dedicated JVM so that our clients applications do not need to share JVM like it is in many Java hosting companies. Dedicated JVM is more expensive comparing to shared JVM but we keep our prices low so that you can get dedicated JVM for the price of shared JVM. You can use any library, framework or jar with dedicated JVM. With dedicated JVM you have full control over it with either shell or our custom Java Control Panel JCP. Those of you who need even more security, isolation and memory can choose XEN VPS where we install JDK and preferred application server for you free of charge.

Why choose us as your Java host?

  • Experienced Java hosting staff

    Hosting Java applications including servlets, JSP, standalone applications and application servers or servlet containers is our specialty. Company founders were working as sysadmins for several Java hosts for a few years before they decided to offer a better Java hosting services under their own brand. These years of experience in Java hosting industry became important factor to our success.

  • Cheap Java hosting for everyone

    One of the goals was to bring Java hosting prices to a friendly level as it was a stopper for some developers for many years. Cheap Java hosting continues to be our mark also with the recently introduced 'Lowest Price Guarnatee' that guarantees our clients maximum savings in hosting costs. We also do not use hidden fees, late fees or force client into long term contract like some companies do. Nobody likes it. With us you pay as you go and you have the flexibility of changing your billing period anytime you want.

  • Java Hosting stability with enterprise hardware

    Another goal was Java hosting environment stability. We decided to only offer dedicated Java (many companies still offer shared JVM/Java hosting) and use only enterprise grade hardware. Our private Java package prices were set at similar level as other companies shared Java packages. Multiprocessor and multicores Supermicro servers with RAID10 and hot swappable enterprise drives make for speed, stability and easy recovery.

  • Custom and easy management solutions

    We also developed our own Java Control Panel as being dependent on third party panel provider support (e.g. asking them to introduce a feature important to our clients) was not giving us enough flexibility with the changes we were continuously introducing and also conflicted with our vision of practically useful Java hosting control panel. The panel ease management, control and monitoring of Java and application server with a browser.

  • Variety of Java Hosting solutions

    A variety of Java hosting solutions has been offered and we are working on extending the offer based on the market needs. Base offer includes private Java on shared server and private Java on VPS. The former gives our clients managed environment with commonly wanted services and control panels. The latter is unmanaged (by default but management can be ordered as an addon) and gives even higher isolation and full control over the system. As cloud gets popular we will also introduce cloud Java hosting in Sept 2013 and will offer easy switch for any of our existing clients and a brand new Java hosting product to new clients. Custom Java hosting setups including clustered solutions are also offered. Clients can easily upgrade, downgrade and change packages and Java hosting solutions.

  • Backups, integrity and safety of accounts

    Data integrity and safety is also on our mind. Everyone wants his Java based website to have 100% uptime. The first line of defence is RAID10 disk subsystem. VPS clients can use VPS Central backup and restore. Additionaly, full VPS filesystem backups are performed weekly. Shared server clients can perform backups using cPanel. We also run weekly and monthly full cPanel account backups for you. If you need a dedicated backup solution for your Java hosting account or VPS we can set up one for you too. Last but not least the chosen datacenter is SSAE16 Type 1 certified.

     

  • Continuous packages' upgrades

    Continuos upgrades are important for security of your Java hosting account. We take care to provide you with newest versions of JDK, servlet containers and application servers. These can be easily upgraded in our Java Control Panel. cPanel and OS level upgrades take place in background as soon as new versions are released.

Java hosting models

Shared server with shared JVM and Application Server

It was very popular some time ago - even cPanel has it included. The approach is still used by some Java hosting companies for low price accounts. Drawbacks are undefined resource limits (you never know how much RAM you can use before admins will ask you to upgrade to private Java package), poor isolation from other clients of shared JVM, limited restarting/redeployment, no Tomcat Manager/Admin. Java applications running on shared application server can easily be crashed by other user applications. We never offered shared Java hosting.

Shared server with private JVM and Java Application Server or Servlet Container

This model gives you dedicated JVM and Tomcat or other application server so you know exactly your heap and PermGen memory limits, you can monitor it and upgrade easily when necessary. At the same time you do not need to setup other useful hosting services (FTP, DNS, web server, mail, etc.) by yourself but have them included in your package as shared services. You also get Java Control Panel to ease management of your JVM and application server. You can use Tomcat or JBoss Admin and restart your Java anytime you wish.

VPS with private JVM and Application Server

Here you get pristine VPS with requested software preinstalled. It gives you very good isolation (Xen). Usually preinstalled software include JDK, appserver (mostly Tomcat), an SQL server firewall and a CVS/SVN/GIT. Application server is serving pages directly. If you need support for PHP/Perl/Python we will install a web server for you. Need any other software? We will install it too. Note that in this model you need to ensure you have enough RAM to have all required services (e.g. mail server, FTP server, DNS server, etc.) installed. Most users are aware what they exactly need and only order a VPS with amount of RAM that will be split among Java heap, Java non-heap and MySQL. To save on RAM you can use third party mail service, use SCP instead of FTP, use your registrar DNS service and so on. Upgrades are easy in this model.

Clustered Application Servers (VPSes with Private JVMs)

It is a variation of above model where 2 or more VPSes will be clustered on application server (e.g. Tomcat) and SQL server level providing high availability system. Recommended for mission critical Java hosting clients.

Java Hosting and the Cloud

When it comes to cloud - any of above can be run with or without cloud architecture. cPanel or VPS servers can run in IaaS cloud. Application servers can run in PaaS cloud. Cloud is still using the same hardware on the low level but offering you a higher level of abstarction and usually faster on demand resource allocation. Our cloud (IaaS based on OpenStack and PaaS based on OpenShift) Java hosting packages are now being tested are expected to be available early Autumn 2013. Stay tuned.

With dedicated JVM all Java related technologies, frameworks, libraries and applications are supported. We list some of them:

  • ActiveMQ
  • Alfresco
  • Ant
  • Apache Axis
  • Apache Xerces
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Atlassian Crowd
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Cocoon
  • Cyclos
  • EJB Facelets
  • GIT Glassfish
  • Grails
  • Hibernate
  • JAX-WS
  • JDBC
  • JSF
  • JSF2
  • JSP
  • JSTL
  • Java EE
  • JavaMail
  • Liferay
  • Magnolia
  • Maven
  • Mifos
  • MongoDB
  • MyFaces
  • MySQL
  • OpenBravo
  • OpenCMS
  • OpenGTS
  • OpenJDK
  • OpenJPA
  • Openfire
  • Pebble
  • Play Framework
  • PostgreSQL
  • PrimeFaces
  • Spring
  • Stripes
  • Struts
  • Taglibs
  • Tapestry
  • Tomcat Native library + APR
  • WebSockets
  • Wicket
  • Zkoss

Reasons why one should choose our hosting company

It has always been difficult to select a suitable, efficient, and yet, affordable web hosting service provider. Explore the reasons why hostelevator.net is the right choice for your web hosting requirements:

  • Best value for money

    You get what you expect, and then some

  • Unquestionable 30 Day Money Back Guarantee

    Our 30 day money back guarantee enables our clients to test our quality services, stability of our servers, and experience the sharpness and expertise our technical team. For VPS AND Dedicated Server 7 day MBG.

  • Stability

    There are two reasons why our servers are stable: (1) We never oversell and (2) we upgrade our hardware on a regular interval. These two core practices ensure reliability, agility and speed.

  • Free of cost and hassle free transfer from other service provider

    If you are planning to change your hosting service provider, all you need to do is to let our support team know about your decision and they will take care of the rest.

  • Special hosting services suitable for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.

    Our servers are equipped to host any of the above mentioned requirements. If there are additional requirements that are not listed, please advise our tech team and most of the time we will be able to accommodate.

  • Genuine Technical Support on 24 x 7

    Claiming and truly providing round the clock technical support are two different things. Anyone can test our round the clock presence on our live chat support. Additionally, we offer 24 x 7 support via our ticket system.

  • Reliability Redundant Fast Low latency

  • Affiliate Program

    Our affiliate program offers you an opportunity to earn up to Rs.5000.00 by referring any client. You can recommend our services to your friends, family, and other contacts via our referral link and let our affiliate system handle the rest. For more details please click on the Affiliate button on our home page.

  • Choice Of Our Data Center (INDIA, USA AND UK)

    We have pioneered the concept of a Globally distributed Datacenter. Our Data center is a globally distributed collection of redundant server infrastructure which hosts all our Products and Services. We have above 4 data centre located in INDIA, USA AND UK.

  • 99.9% Up-time Guarantee

    Based on the quality of our servers and our management team, we can confidently guarantee a 99.9% up time of your website. The up time is measured by our round the clock monitoring system.

  • Free Add-ons with every Domain Name

    We provide free Email Account, Free DNS Management, Free Mail Forwards, Domain Forwarding, Domain Theft Protection, Easy to use Control Panel ETC

  • High End Multi core/ Multi Processor Servers

    All Administration, Security, Backups and Upgrades managed by Host Elevator