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05-04-2011, 04:11 AM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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What do you guy's think
What do you guy's think the best cloud service provider is?
I'm currently just browsing for personal use. i don't really have much set requirements/budget i'm currently just browsing looking at different places/products.
A true cloud service, and such. Provide recommendations that you have tried / and details about the service if you can also budget/links that they offer/describe around here if possible.
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05-04-2011, 04:45 AM #2Web Hosting Guru
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Check on this thread which is almost the same as yours: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=876700
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05-04-2011, 04:49 AM #3Junior Guru
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Amazon EC2
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05-04-2011, 05:44 PM #4
This for UK, USA or what?
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05-04-2011, 06:36 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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EC2 is my defacto cloud, just because it provides pretty low-level control over your cloud infrastructure alongside the most robust security model I've seen. Not all my apps are simple web servers.
I've had Rackspace Cloud servers in the past and wouldn't really recommend them over EC2 except for some specialized cases. Also, for personal use, they're not going to teach you much about the requirements for web scale software.
The only downside with EC2 is that they're not representative of the new bred of Cloud Hosting that's targeting the mass market appeal of 'cloud'. AWS is as hardcore as you can get.
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05-05-2011, 10:30 AM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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I'm not so sure about EC2. We have a lot of customers coming from EC2, I also have some customers that run ours and run EC2. Integration with EC2 is the hard part. I guess if you don't "do" it right, you have results like the customers that have come from EC2 that say they have 70% uptime. I guess that's one way that separates other providers that are not agnostic in their setups.
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05-05-2011, 10:48 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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There's already quite a few different cloud providers out there - many who are specializing in various niches, or have different infrastructure types. So, a lot of it depends on what you're trying to do and your familiarity with cloud hosting/servers. For example, a lot of what we see is people struggle with using EC2 due to it's complexity, while others have zero problems with it. Others aren't nearly flexible enough or their billing isn't setup to be most beneficial for certain consumers.
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05-05-2011, 07:15 PM #8Aspiring Evangelist
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Are you looking for cloud servers, or cloud hosting. There is quite a big difference between the two.
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05-09-2011, 03:24 AM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-09-2011, 03:26 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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05-09-2011, 10:33 AM #11HostXNow - Shared Web Hosting | Semi Dedicated Hosting | Enterprise Reseller Hosting | VPS Hosting
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05-09-2011, 04:19 PM #12Newbie
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05-14-2011, 12:12 PM #13Newbie
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EC2 FTW, it is run by Amazon and is very reliable, I've never had a problem with it.
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05-14-2011, 03:57 PM #14Newbie
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05-14-2011, 04:31 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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05-14-2011, 05:05 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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There's really no such thing as a Cloud Server...
I don't understand why a provider is asking this kind of question. How do you rate your own service?
Take a look over at lowendbox and follow the ratings. You can get good services for 10 bucks a month - buyvm.net has people standing in line. They don't oversell, and when they introduce new nodes for their VPS's all inventory is gone the same day.
That's the mark of a good provider.
In a nutshell, if you can't touch it, it's in the cloud - i.e., there's really no such thing as a "Cloud Server" or "Cloud Hosting". it's just a buzzword to describe a rented host or webhosting account you can get from any rented colo provider, VPS provider, or hosting provider like hostgator, dreamhost, etc.,
In fact, many companies brand both types of services, and sell them as different concepts, while you'll find that you can buy one shared hosting account, one cloud hosting account, and realize they're both on the same actual host.
No such thing as "Cloud Services". You can also call it SaaS, ASP, VPS, rented dedicated host. It's just a marketing term borrowed from the telecommunications industry to describe 'out there somewhere' on, for example, a visio diagram
If you can touch it, it is still in the cloud if it's a forward facing host on the internet and available to others not located where you are
You can argue semantics all day long, but in the words of Mr. Ed: "A host is a host from coast to coast unless of course the horse is Mr. Ed." LOL.
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