Subscribe to our PaaS hosting services and benefit from a web development environment that fits your needs

At Gandi, we understand the market’s increasing demand for simple and affordable, yet also reliable and powerful PaaS hosting solutions. It’s for this reason that we list several web hosting offers which are designed to let you start your new projects and deploy websites as well as web applications as quickly as possible. This article aims to help you understand what PaaS is about, and why it’s the ideal choice for many web developers.

What is PaaS?

PaaS is an abbreviation for “Platform as a Service”, which refers to a solution based around cloud computing and online web development tools. PaaS hosting solutions are designed for you to be able to develop your websites and web apps after spending a minimal amount of time setting up and configuring your instance. Using a PaaS solution lets you bypass many of the steps necessary for deploying anything online, including managing hardware, dependencies and installing the web development tools you need.

Let’s say you wish to create a new blog or website for your business, using WordPress. While you’re very familiar with WordPress, you don’t have any web development skills outside of the use of the CMS integrated customization and publishing tools. In this case, Gandi’s PaaS Simple Hosting solution is your best option. In this example, we would initialize your instance on our servers, install PHP, MySQL, and WordPress so that you’re ready to start working with the tools you’re familiar with without any hassle.

Thus, you can create an account at Gandi, generate a Simple Hosting instance, and instantly be provided with all the tools you’re perfectly comfortable working with, and never have to worry about any of the programs running in the back-end

What are the PaaS hosting solutions available at Gandi?

Our Simple Hosting offer is a very affordable PaaS hosting solution. When creating your Simple Hosting instance, you will have the choice between WordPress (PHP), Node.js (Javascript), Python, and Ruby as your web development languages and tools. Our servers are preconfigured and come with 50GB of free storage space that may be upgraded to up to 1TB. There isn’t a hard limit to how much bandwidth you may use, meaning that you will never face any additional costs in the event that your website would experience a spike in traffic due to a sudden increase in the number of visitors.

You may choose a Simple Hosting pack among several differently-sized options going from S+ to XXL, depending on how large your websites and web applications are expected to be in terms of the resources they require to properly function. If your pack happens to be too small for your needs, please know that you may upgrade to a larger sized pack at any time, which is done smoothly and without any server downtime.

All of our Simple Hosting offers also include a free SSL certificate for each of the domain names you use them with. These domain names may be purchased directly on Gandi, or via another platform, and configuring them to redirect to your websites is really easy thanks to our simple and intuitive DNS interface.