Case Study
Pappayacloud.com is an exciting and fast-growing new startup public cloud services provider based in India & UK. The company launched in 2023 as a traditional public cloud service business in two different locations in India, offering alternative services to AWS including migrations.
Today the company has evolved into a full-service public cloud consultancy and enterprise cloud hosting provider for larger enterprises. According to CEO, Domonic Prabhu, this transition was enabled by the partnership with StackBill.
Uses StackBill CMP to
offer alternative service for AWS EC2
including database-as-a-service, migration &
Kubernetes-as-a- service for enterprise
clients.
Replaces VMWare workload with StackBill CMP
Infrastructure to centralize management and
enable new services after migrations.
Now expanding its
StackBill-based laas and Paas capabilities
into multiple regions in India.
"When we discovered StackBill we were able to consolidate our public cloud offerings using Apache CloudStack with KVM hypervisor Infrastructure, and create a single resource pool with centralized administration on multiple zones. This enabled us to develop our opensource cloud services not just for smaller clients, but for enterprises with more demanding needs-combining Infrastructure as a Service with anything-as-a-service (Xa-as-S)"
Now PappayaCloud is expanding its Infrastructure and Anything as a Service capabilities with StackBill in its Indian datacenter, enabling customers to choose from datacenters in different Tier-3 & 4 Cities in India. Importantly, PappayaCloud.com StackBill CMP enables a single point of control for multi-region and even multi-cloud deployment.
"Multi-Zone is important for resilience & DR, for example if there is a problem with connectivity in a certain zone," says Domonic Prabhu.
With StackBill, every zone can be managed in the same user-friendly interface. Our customers can also deploy to multiple third party public clouds if they wish - again, managed through a single control plane"
One of the core things that reduces the support requests on PappayaCloud.com is the ease of use of its StackBill cloud platforms. StackBill Ui/Ux experience cloud management makes life easier not just for PappayaCloud.com but for its customers, too.
"It's easy and complete self service with the StackBill CMP. Provisioning VMs, setting up storage, configuring High Availability-creating Kubernetes Clusters, Configuring DR sites are all streamlines with StackBill with only few clicks which saves our support time. Plus, customers can self-serve a lot of these features too," says Domonic Prabhu.
Pappayacloud.com is happy with its StackBill technology build on top of Apache CloudStack technologies, partnership and support, and the company is excited about its future growth with enterprise XaaS and laas services.
"On click provisioning VMs, setting up storage, configuring High Availability-StackBill simplifies these processes and saves us engineering time"
To learn more about Pappayacloud.com's growing Cloud and XaaS capabilities, visit https://pappayacloud.com
Frequently asked question about StackBill Licensing and customization.
StackBill is licensed on a per-hypervisor basis (Physical Nodes) without limitation on the number of virtual machines, physical/virtual cores, storage limits or amount of physical RAM. The license includes the other required physical components/servers like Management hosts (Apache CloudStack) and any storage devices.
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StackBill offers three types of Editions for different types of customer sizes and requirements, we believe every customer has a different business models with different requirements.
Standard Edition :
Suitable for startups and small companies to set their foot in the public cloud markets. StackBill offers a very flexible license model without any restrictions on the physical nodes. Small startups can even start with one physical nodes and scale-up any time to meet with their demands.
Premium Edition :
Suitable for SMEs and large organizations who want to offer next level of public cloud services. Premium edition packed with B2B business modules and other core add-on plugins to support end customers.
Enterprise Edition :
For large organization who want to build a customized public cloud solutions. With Enterprise edition everything is unlimited and also comes with developer hiring program to have their own unique features build for go-to-market.
Yes, you can upgrade the StackBill edition at any point of time to enjoy the add-on features. However for any downgrade required our team can help you to down grade your plan.
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You can uninstall StackBill at any point of time (please refer our uninstall guide for more information). Uninstalling stackbill will not have any effect on infrastructure running with Apache CloudStack. You will be still able to manage the infrastructure using Apache CloudStack.
Our STANDARD Edition deployment is self-serviced (please refer our installation guide for more details). We can help you with any customized deployment of StackBill for free on both the Premium/Enterprise Edition. We do charge for Apache CloudStack installation & setup.
Once you Signed up with us, you will be provide us with an help-desk login which is manned by our 24/7 support team.
Yes, you can upgrade or downgrade your edition at any point of time. You can also upgrade / downgrade your physical hypervisor count through our license server.
We do have the list of common payment gateway integrations with StackBill. However if you like to integrate with any of your preferred vendor, we can do that for free with any of our licensed versions.
