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Lunacloud
Company type	Public
Industry	Cloud computing provider; Cloud computing; Infrastructure as a Service; Web hosting
Founded	November 21, 2011; 12 years ago ; Lisboa, PT
Founder	António Miguel Ferreira; Charles Nasser
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	António Miguel Ferreira; (CEO)
Products	Cloud Server, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic
Services	Cloud computing
Number of employees	54
Website	lunacloud.com (original UK. site); various national sites

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Lunacloud is a cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service provider, based in Lisbon.^[1]

History

Lunacloud was founded in 2011 by António Miguel Ferreira and Charles Nasser and launched its services to the general public on June 1, 2012 (2012-06-01). It provides cloud computing infrastructure as a service, such as cloud servers ^[2] and cloud storage,^[3] and Cloud Jelastic^[4] hosting.

Reception

The performance and cost of Lunacloud's offerings have been favourably rated in TechWeekEurope^[5] TechRepublic^[6] and CloudSpectator ^[7]when compared to Rackspace and Amazon EC2.

Business model

Lunacloud has three base products — Cloud Servers, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic. Lunacloud helps design, build, and operate workloads across both environments depending on the individual needs of the customer.

Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers provides scalable virtual servers using Parallels and VMware . The clouds servers can be deployed by using the control panel or API.

Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage is an easy-to-use storage service on the Internet. It works like a virtual disk. Is highly scalable with unlimited size and redundant! You can store and retrieve any number and size of files (objects) from the control panel or through the API. The API is also compatible with the Amazon S3 API.

Cloud Jelastic

Cloud Jelastic (acronym for Java Elastic) is an unlimited PaaS and Container based IaaS within a single platform that provides high availability of applications, automatic vertical and horizontal scaling via containerization to software development clients, enterprise businesses, DevOps, System Admins, Developers

Locations

Headquarters

Lunacloud headquarters are in Lisbon.

Customer service centers

UK: London
Portugal: Lisbon
France: Paris
Spain: Barcelona
Russia: Moscow

Website

Lunacloud localized storefronts, which differ in selection and prices, are differentiated by top-level domain and country code:

Region	Sovereignty	Domain name
Asia
Asia	China	lunacloud.cn
Europe
	Portugal	lunacloud.pt
	France	lunacloud.fr
	Germany	lunacloud.de
	Italy	lunacloud.it
	Netherlands	lunacloud.nl
	Spain	lunacloud.es
	United Kingdom	lunacloud.co.uk
	Russia	lunacloud.ru
North America
North America	United States	lunacloud.com

References

^ "About". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
^ "Cloud Servers". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
^ "Cloud Storage". Lunacloud. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2012-08-29. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Cloud Jelastic". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
^ Judge, Peter (2012-07-19). "How big is a piece of cloud". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
^ Rodrigues, Thoran (2012-08-07). "Side-by-side comparisons of IaaS service providers". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
^ "Lunacloud, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace Cloud Compared | Cloud Spectator". Cloud Spectator. Retrieved 2017-03-28.

[about-1] "About". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.

[servers-2] "Cloud Servers". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.

[storage-3] "Cloud Storage". Lunacloud. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2012-08-29. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[jelastic-4] "Cloud Jelastic". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.

[techweekeurope-5] Judge, Peter (2012-07-19). "How big is a piece of cloud". Retrieved 2012-08-29.

[techrepublic-6] Rodrigues, Thoran (2012-08-07). "Side-by-side comparisons of IaaS service providers". Retrieved 2012-08-29.

[7] "Lunacloud, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace Cloud Compared | Cloud Spectator". Cloud Spectator. Retrieved 2017-03-28.

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