ALTERNcloud provides a host of individuals, nonprofits, and businesses with vital Cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), including but not limited to family advocacy nonprofits, political organizations, and tech companies. As part of our ongoing client showcase, we’re featuring the nonprofit National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to highlight how it’s utilizing ALTERNcloud services to support its operations. After becoming the first nonprofit to be cancelled by the IRS, in addition to being cancelled by other groups such as Human Rights Campaign, NOM was looking for a bullet proof solution to maintain its online presence – which is where ALTERNcloud came in.
National Organization for Marriage: A Nonprofit Advocacy Organization
The mission of NOM is critical: to help protect traditional marriage at the local, state, and national levels within the United States. Launched in 2007, NOM works with legislators to ensure individuals have the information they need to confidently vote on legislation concerning marital rights, and “by giving marriage a voice in courts of law as well as in the court of public opinion.” To accomplish this goal, NOM “works to develop political messaging, build its national grassroots email database of voters, and provide political intelligence and donor infrastructure on the state level.”
When discussing how NOM decided to shift its online operations to ALTERNcloud, President Brian Brown shared:
We have been de-platformed by bank and credit card payment processors such as Stripe, [and] are migrating all our digital assets to a safe and trusted vendor: ALTERNcloud.
How NOM Uses ALTERNcloud
Currently, NOM uses a variety of ALTERNcloud products, including our VPC Medium, Edge DNS, EZ Cloud Starter, and ALTERNmail. By using ALTERNcloud’s products, NOM’s team can ensure that their data is securely stored and their website is easily and quickly accessible 24/7 – they never have to live in fear of being de-platformed. And with ALTERNmail, NOM can conveniently send automated transactional and marketing email campaigns. An email infrastructure as a service, ALTERNmail is built on a Cloud infrastructure which won’t cancel you or slow you down, allowing companies to send large volumes of email in minutes.
VPC Medium
Develop and deploy powerful websites and apps with ALTERNcloud’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) packages. With a multi-tenant advanced Cloud configuration, ALTERNcloud’s VPC Medium provides customers with a fully virtualized environment and immediate provisioning. Featuring 80 shared and dedicated vCPUs, an extensive compute templates library, and a Cloud core managed by ALTERNcloud, VPC Medium grants users advanced self-service versatility. Learn more.
Edge DNS
ALTERNcloud’s DNS management offers a range of services, with plans starting as low as $20.00; five managed domains and five million queries are included. We provide real-time traffic routing to optimize the resolution process and offer a global DNS with data centers and Points of Presence to mitigate any latency due to distance. Our Edge DNS Services help prevent downtime, resulting in a query resolution of 30 milliseconds or faster. We augment our services with built-in network and performance monitoring, health checks, and query analytics, then ingest data from these sources to optimize how traffic flows to your Cloud services. Learn more.
EZ Cloud Starter
Start developing and deploying apps with ease with ALTERNcloud’s EZ Cloud starter. Kickoff your plan by selecting the size of Cloud you need, and once it’s initiated, only get charged for the compute resources you create and use. With a multi-tenant configuration, ALTERNcloud’s EZ Cloud provides customers with a fully virtualized environment and one-click simplified provisioning. Featuring shared and dedicated CPUs and GPUs, an extensive compute templates library, and a Cloud core managed by ALTERNcloud, EZ Cloud grants users advanced self-service versatility and is easily upgradable. EZ Cloud Starter includes three floating IP addresses, five compute instances, 40GB of memory, and 500GB of volume block storage. Learn more.