Why We Built ZaCloud: The Journey to Reliable, Affordable, and Flexible Hosting

Over my 7+ years as a software engineer specializing in backend development and DevOps, I've worked at companies of varying sizes, from small startups to large corporates with over 2,000 employees. Across these experiences, particularly in software houses, I've consistently encountered hosting challenges. Each project had unique requirements, but managing VPS hosting was a recurring struggle, especially for small companies with limited budgets.

I started my career with the rise of cloud computing and AI, during the digital transformation era in 2017. My first job involved deploying an e-commerce and delivery app on VPS hosting due to financial constraints. This decision led to countless issues: database outages from insufficient storage, managing app and database logs, ensuring uptime, monitoring, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. While VPS hosting was affordable, the manual effort and operational overhead were overwhelming.

Later, at another company, we turned to Google Cloud Run, drawn by its serverless autoscaling capabilities. While it worked well for certain scenarios, we quickly realized the high costs and limitations of long-running processes. The challenge was clear: balancing cost-efficiency, performance, and flexibility for various project needs.

VPS remains the foundation of many modern cloud hosting solutions, including Kubernetes clusters. Despite the advancements in cloud platforms, there are still valid reasons to use VPS hosting: cost efficiency for early-stage projects, data privacy, and control over your infrastructure. Recognizing this need, I founded ZaCloud, a managed cloud hosting platform, evolving it from a simple VPS management solution to a platform designed for seamless, secure, and scalable hosting.

Our mission is to simplify hosting while empowering developers to deploy their software effortlessly, with the flexibility to scale as needed. ZaCloud embodies this vision—offering reliable and affordable solutions tailored to the diverse needs of developers and businesses.

What is different in Zacloud

• ZaCloud aims to enhance the user experience for non-technical and technical users to deploy websites and applications with one click. Using one click you can choose the framework, programming language, and database you want to deploy and everything is 100% managed.
• ZaCloud gives you realtime monitoring and logs for each website and application to keep you on track of what's happening on every app running on the server.
• ZaCloud automates the backup for every app in a very easy way to manage, you don't need to worry about anything related to the backup, and when we say backup, it's an offsite backup which keeps your data safe and secure.
• Zacloud gives you an easy way to scale up and down your server, and clone the server or app from one place to another which helps you move between the staging environment to the production environment easily
• Uploading source code is easy, you can upload it using Dropbox, GIT integration, CI/CD pipeline connection or even you can connect ZaCloud with an outside artifact registry to pull the image from there.
• You even don't need to worry about docker or containerization or SSL certificates or anything, everything is auto-managed on the platform.
• Managed databases: It is always a hassle how to manage your databases and guarantee it's up and running all the time you might buy different solutions from different providers that depending if you are using NoSQL or SQL database, with ZaCloud, you don't need to worry about that, we support most of the known databases and all are managed.
• Finally: Cost, ZaCloud offers you many features to give you everything you need without charging you too much money that makes your pocket empty. Our managed VPS servers start from 7$ only!

ZaCloud integrates with different cloud providers such as Google Cloud, Linode, Vultr, and AWS to give you the freedom to buy the server you want from the provider you like.

Conclusion

I am happy to announce that today and tell you about what I experience last year that led me to build ZaCloud, I think we have great potential to give outstanding user experience to our users in the managed VPS hosting field, and soon we will support too many features that will blow your minds, I hope you try the platform today and give me your feedback, use the following coupon to try it for free 100-FREE-OFFER-ONE-MONTH