More and more cloud service providers are nowadays promoting their capabilities on elastic scaling, but what exactly does this mean and how businesses can leverage this provision of cloud?

Elastic Cloud Server is a Cloud Computing (IaaS) service wherein you can simply tailor your virtual server with exact resources you require. For instance, CPUs (cores), RAM, HDD, IP numbers, backup, and even the load balancing provision. It is considered as a high accessibility provision, and comprises of the infrastructure that consists of redundancy and involuntary failover attributes that can take care of the things if something unpredictable happens to the hardware where your virtual server is sited.

The service does not have a lock-in period; you can choose and configure your resource that seamlessly fits in your ongoing requirements. Elastic Cloud Server is very flexible in terms of price evaluation wherein resource pricing is calculated on hourly basis, which means that you can begin with a prepaid account which gives you the desired flexibility to create different servers as and when you have a requirement and even remove them through a self-managed portal.

Unlike many other servers, cloud with Elastic Server provision has made it possible for the end-users to tailor the resources with very high granularity. You can adapt resources, for instance the number of visitors to your website. Let's suppose you over a weekend, want to run a promotional campaign and expect that huge volume of web visitor will turn up to your website. In such situation you can scale up resources on the server to handle the load. When the rush is over you can again scale down resources to their usual level and thus only pay for what you require.

-Auto scaling - Enables you to automatically expand or contract your server capacity or your cluster just within minutes, not even hours or days. This can be done with ease, simply by setting limits on the control panel.

-Flexibility - The web-based control panel enables the end-user to create, update and remove virtual servers, administer storage, backup and other resource settings. Furthermore, you can monitor where and how much of your resources are being used through the informative and graphical reports. It also enables you to keep a track on your outlays and see what your virtual servers cost you on an hourly basis.

-DNS - You get an additional layer of DNS protection when your domain name is placed on DNS servers in the world. After this you will become less susceptible to unexpected overload spikes. Plus, speedy execution of domain lookup will give you as a customer and your visitors a superior experience.

In few words: Elastic scaling is indeed the best attribute, wherein you get so much flexibility which has never been possible before. Adopt Elastic Cloud Server and always stay in control.