Host.net’s Cloud Services, Cut Costs in Half For years, the largest IT expense for gourmet coffee purveyor Luna Gourmet (formerly Boca Java, Inc.), was the cost of hosting its e-commerce infrastructure at a colocation facility 300 miles from its office in Deerfield Beach, Florida. When that contract was up for renewal, technology managers hoped to reduce costs as well as modernize their aging equipment by moving to their colo provider’s virtual machine (VM) platform. That plan fizzled when the provider’s virtualized service proved to be 25% more expensive as well as 30% slower in a series of disappointing performance tests. After nearly abandoning the idea of migrating to a VM environment, the coffee company decided to take Host.net’s Virtual Private Data Center (vPDC) service for

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