Their Pitch
Cloud, edge, security and AI solutions.
Our Take
It's cloud hosting with a really fast content delivery network. Less fancy than it sounds, more useful than most alternatives.
Deep Dive & Reality Check
Used For
- +**Your e-commerce site crashes during Black Friday traffic spikes** → Auto-scales without you buying servers you'll use twice a year
- +**Videos buffer forever for international users** → CDN caches content globally so a user in Singapore loads as fast as someone next door
- +**Manual backups that you forget to do until disaster strikes** → Automated backups to Amazon S3 or Dropbox run while you sleep
- +**Training AI models on your laptop takes 3 weeks** → Rent NVIDIA H100 GPUs for €1.25/hour, finish in hours
- +Kubernetes management without the usual nightmare setup - they handle the complex networking stuff
Best For
- >Your website loads like molasses for users outside your home country
- >You're getting hammered by DDoS attacks and your current host just shrugs
- >Need GPU servers for AI but don't want to remortgage your house
Not For
- -Solo developers or tiny teams — the free tier is fine for personal projects but you'll outgrow support options quickly
- -Anyone wanting simple shared hosting — this is overkill if you just need a WordPress site
- -Companies that need everything on-premises — this is cloud-only with no hybrid options
Pairs With
- *Kubernetes (for container orchestration with their managed networking that doesn't make you cry)
- *Amazon S3 (where your automated backups actually live)
- *Cloudflare (some people run both CDNs for extra redundancy, though it's probably overkill)
- *PostgreSQL (databases that need the fast storage and backup features)
- *Stripe (for e-commerce sites that need the global speed boost)
- *Docker (deploy containers without fighting with server configs)
- *Terraform (to manage your infrastructure as code instead of clicking through dashboards)
The Catch
- !Video streaming hits bandwidth limits faster than expected - budget for overages if you're pushing lots of content
- !Advanced features like custom SSL and enhanced DDoS protection cost extra on top of base pricing
- !Entry-level VMs will bottleneck if you throw serious workloads at them - you'll need to upgrade sooner than planned
Bottom Line
Cheaper than AWS, faster than basic hosting, without the PhD in cloud architecture.