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[AndiV74]

Hello,

can you recommend me a cloud provider?
Or is outhere a list with all cloud providers in the world wide web


Best regards

[MACscr]

Depends on your definition of what a cloud actually is.

[AndiV74]

Sorry, I mean services like Amazon EC2.

Looking for alternative cloud computing providers.

[Dedicatedone]

There's a few platforms out there.
What are you hoping to host?
What are your priorities?

These can help narrow it down so we can help you.

Best of luck,

[AndiV74]

Looking for flexibility for the cloud computing provider.

Should have 100 MB Port connection.

[gothy]

What I've used: Amazon EC2, Mosso.com (now Rackspace Cloud), GoGrid.com (ServePath), Google AppEngine.
Most complicated, yet powerful is EC2, of course, but you have to be a real Pro and know what you're doing to use it.
GoGrid is a bit different and easier to manage than EC2, few nice bonuses like free incoming traffic and load-balancing.
Mosso\RackCloud is just great, average user will adapt to it easily. Not as flexible as EC2, but it's storage is persistent, images\instances size can be changed flawlessly and backed up on schedule automatically.
AppEngine is from Google, but it's not a standard cloud(like a set of VPSes), it's a Platform. The biggest minus is lots of limits of this platform and you'll need to rethink and modify your existing apps to fit appengine. Pluses - it has "pack" of resources that you can consume for free, also Google gives you already scaled platform, you don't have to invent your own cluster structure.
Eventually, if you know what you need and what you can and can't, you'll find solution that suites you, there is a lot of others also But there is no "THE BEST" for now I think...

p.s. all those clouds are very expensive for bandwidth-intensive apps\sites

[01globalnet]

You can also check Cartika (fully managed - shared hosting on cloud or roll your own vps/dedi cloud) and Softlayer (unmanaged).

[TrevorN]

Terremark has a very powerful enterprise cloud. Not sure exactly what you were looking for, but noticed it wasn't added to this list.

[jclutter]

Cool, this helps a lot!

[bin_asc]

Softlayer is still at start IMO. If you need only to compute, and can afford having downtime, they are still great.

[astutiumRob]

Originally Posted by eming

slicehost would qualify...

slicehost became rackspac-cloudborgslice or something recently.

[jbvps]

There is "vCloud express".

[HiVelocity]

Originally Posted by bin_asc

Softlayer is still at start IMO. If you need only to compute, and can afford having downtime, they are still great.

How can you say this , any provider of their stature in the marketplace must have done extensive BETA testing prior to doing a public launch , as my company is currently doing , we have had a cloud for quite a few months now , and we are only doing beta testing to make sure the offering is ready for prime time , also don't you think if there were issues with their cloud people would be complaining by now?

[gdtechind]

Originally Posted by HiVelocity

How can you say this , any provider of their stature in the marketplace must have done extensive BETA testing prior to doing a public launch , as my company is currently doing , we have had a cloud for quite a few months now , and we are only doing beta testing to make sure the offering is ready for prime time , also don't you think if there were issues with their cloud people would be complaining by now?

You asked if someone will complain about Softlayer. Here i am today to complain. Having a downtime of more than 6 hours.

The support team is responding slow now (around 1 hour to get back with canned responses).

I guess they are still not having expertise to run cloud. I have been using them for almost one month for CloudLayer. I am otherwise having Dedicated servers from them for past 2.5 years.

[HiVelocity]

Originally Posted by gdtechind

You asked if someone will complain about Softlayer. Here i am today to complain. Having a downtime of more than 6 hours.

The support team is responding slow now (around 1 hour to get back with canned responses).

I guess they are still not having expertise to run cloud. I have been using them for almost one month for CloudLayer. I am otherwise having Dedicated servers from them for past 2.5 years.

Perhaps I am wrong maybe they didnt BETA test prior to launch , IDK.