Provider portrait: Strato

Strato is a good example of how the hosting market has changed over the years, as the Berliners are always at the forefront of new ideas and trends. From the outset, Strato has taken other paths than many competitors, thus preserving its flexibility despite the increasing size of the company.


Not just classic hosting


Long before the big hype around Cloud Computing, Strato for example in shared hosting already no longer rely on individual servers, which were gradually populated with customer accounts. Rather, Strato has been working with large Sun clusters from the outset to make shared hosting much more flexible and scalable.


Server-Cloud


Following the trends, the portfolio also included products which, at first sight, are no longer typical Webhosting, but which can be professionally implemented with the existing know-how and open new and creative opportunities for hosting customers.


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For example, Strato has been using an on-line storage system with Hidrive, which goes far beyond simply storing data in the cloud. And the latest Cloud product from Strato is the cloud server, which provides tremendous flexibility, especially for professional hosting customers.


Certified data centers


In addition, of course, all the classic hosting products can be found in the offer, from the homepage building kit, domain and e-mail accounts, via shared hosting and vServer to professional hosting offers from Strato Pro with fully virtualized, managed and dedicated servers as well The highly configurable multi-server.


Strato has not invented the server cloud, some other hosters offer similar. But the Berliners have been well-placed to build an attractive and highly flexible offer, which is available at a very low price.


The idea of ​​the server cloud: configure virtualized servers exactly according to their own requirements with regard to CPU performance, memory and hard disk space - with hourly billing and immediate availability. Such servers are therefore more than just a classic web server.


On the contrary, staging servers can be deployed, which are only paid for the period in which you really work. Updates or software changes can be tested very easily and, above all, without risk for the runtime environment with an exact server copy.


And any kind of projects with fluctuating resource requirements can be run at low cost. Power units such as 100 GB of hard disk space, a virtual CPU hour or 1 GB of RAM per hour, each with a "credit", are paid.


Same is basically a cent, but is also much cheaper to get quantity discounts. The server cloud is thus always cheaper when used intensively.


The two data centers of Strato in Karlsruhe and Berlin are also TÜV certified according to the standards of the ISO-27001 standard, which also have to fulfill the data centers of banks and insurance companies, for example. For a large host, it is almost natural that the data centers are operated with regenerative energy.


And also the customer service of the web host is certified - by the way self-operated, not outsourced to external call centers. The quality of the customer service department is also regularly checked by the TÜV-MS service.