ALTERNcloud provides vital Cloud infrastructure services (IaaS) to nonprofits and businesses across a variety of industries, with clients ranging from family advocacy nonprofits to political organizations to tech companies and more. As part of our ongoing client showcase, we’re featuring the nonprofit International Organization for the Family (IOF) to highlight their use of ALTERNcloud services to support their operations. A global-reaching nonprofit, IOF needed a dependable platform to support their online presence and email operations.
About IOF
IOF supports the natural family worldwide by uniting and equipping leaders through four main foci: the annual World Congress of Families; The Natural Family journal, a quarterly academic publication; the Article 16 Initiative, which empowers leaders to protect the family in accordance with Article 16 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and lastly, the Emerging Leaders Program, which trains young professionals, scholars and activists.
How IOF Uses ALTERNcloud
Currently, IOF uses a variety of ALTERNcloud products to reach readers, followers, and donors around the world, including our VPC Medium, Edge DNS, Edge CDN, and ALTERNmail. By using ALTERNcloud’s products, IOF’s team can ensure that their data is securely stored and their website is easily and quickly accessible 24/7.
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.
Next-gen Edge CDN
Our next-gen Edge CDN, powered by 150+ Points of Presence worldwide, stores popular content close to users, reducing latency and improving page load times. Furthermore, ALTERNcloud’s CDN can easily protect servers from overloading during unexpected traffic surges or denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Edge DNS services enable client websites to avoid downtime and improve domain performance with an average query resolution of 30 milliseconds or less. Discover how you can use our next-gen Edge CDN to stream fast quality video, run a secure online store, and more on our blog.
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.
ALTERNmail
With ALTERNmail, IOF can send automated transactional and marketing email campaigns to supporters around the globe. 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.