GoGrid Cloud Hosting Review

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Posted on 26th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting Reviews

Overall Rating44444
Price4.24.24.24.24.2
Uptime44444
Support4.44.44.44.44.4
Features44444

Overview:
Deploying a cloud server is easy with GoGrid. Simply select a server image and a server size (based on RAM) and you’ll be up and running in minutes.  Their server images use standard Windows or Linux Operating Systems with full root/administrator access, giving us the freedom to configure your cloud server however we’d like.

Features:
GoGrid is the only cloud operator to provide a true hybrid hosting infrastructure, which lets you build server networks that combine the elasticity of cloud computing with the control of physical servers via a web-based control panel.  GoGrid Dedicated Servers are available on your cloud VLAN and can be load-balanced the same as cloud servers and can connect to your GoGrid Cloud Storage.

With GoGrid, you can deploy Linux (and/or Windows) cloud servers instantly with just the click of a mouse and you’ll only pay for the deployed RAM and data transfer that you actually use. GoGrid is the only cloud provider that gives you the flexibility to choose between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003.

Summary:Cloud Hosting and Hybrid Hosting Network Diagram
From Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server to Linux RedHat with PHP, Apache and MySQL we offer a wide variety of standard OS installs and common software packages and give you full root / administrator access.  One really nice thing is that GoGrid has partnered with dozens of companies to provide us with a full suite of server images created and mainted by their partner community. Some of their partner server images come prebundled with popular software and applications, others provide development and testing solutions, or disaster recovery and backup solutions, or cloud management solutions, and some provide solutions for cloud server security & monitoring.

Click here to visit GoGrid Cloud Hosting

Reliability and Uptime:
Promising 100% uptime.  They keep everything public so you can see about everything that has happened in the past and what they have done to fix it.  It’s on Eblogger so even if they go down it won’t.

Customer Support:
GoGrid Cloud Support works around the clock, 24/7 support.  They only help with the base OS, they don’t support the applications, programs, nor do they troubleshoot problems with databases and stuff like that.

Coupons:
Sign up now with a $100 dollar credit: http://www.gogrid.com/signUp/?promocode=GGSB

Click here to visit GoGrid Cloud Hosting

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Rackspace Cloud Hosting Review

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Posted on 26th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting Reviews

Overall Rating33333
Price33333
Uptime2.712.712.712.712.71
Support3.143.143.143.143.14
Features3.293.293.293.293.29
Overview:
The Rackspace Cloud Hosting can quickly scale to thousands of servers to make resources available as they’re needed. Rackspace Cloud hosting customers never need to worry about buying new hardware to meet increasing traffic demands or huge traffic spikes. With over 40,000 customers and a goal of 100,000 customers by the end of 2010 qualifies them for one of the best cloud servers out there.
Rackspace Cloud offers three hosting products: Cloud Servers for on-demand computing power; Cloud Sites for robust web hosting; and Cloud Files for elastic online file storage and CDN.

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by Rackspace
Features:
On-Demand Servers With Root Access, Scale Up & Down At Any Time, Open Source APIs, Pay by the hour for each instance, No long-term contracts—pay only for what you use, Bandwidth available for 7¢/GB in and 22¢/GB out.

Summary:
Rackspace Cloud Hosting is simple to set up…  It’s as easy as 1… 2… 3…

  • Step One: Build Your Cloud Server. Pull out your credit card, pick your server size and click ‘build’. It’s that simple.
  • Step Two: Run Exactly What You Need. Ruby on Rails. Python and Django. PHP, Java and more – it’s your call. How about an application server?  Apache, Mysql, Mongrel – Cloud Servers can run anything you need.
  • Step Three: Scale to Meet Demand. Need a bigger server? Hit the upgrade button and resize instantly. Want to add servers based on

Click here to visit Rackspace Cloud Hosting

Reliability and Uptime:
Rackspace Has over 40,000 users across the world and have a 95.99% uptime.

Customer Support:
Rackspace prides itself on its Fanatical Support. They are always prompt to answer all tickets, emails, tweets, and texts.  Voted top support in the industry by users

Coupon:
REF-YY to get $25 off the first month hosting bills

Cloud Computing & Cloud Hosting by Rackspace

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Single Hop Cloud Hosting Review

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Posted on 26th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting Reviews

Overall Rating3.53.53.53.53.5
Price3.53.53.53.53.5
Uptime44444
Support4.54.54.54.54.5
Features33333

Overview:
SinglHop provides cloud hosting services for over 2,500 servers from two world-class data centers in the Chicago area. SingleHop cloud hosting plans to closely integrate our existing services and cloud computing services.

Features:
No current Single Hop Cloud Hosting Features

Summary:
No current Single Hop Cloud Hosting Summary

Click here to visit SingleHop Cloud Hosting

Reliability and Uptime:
No current Single Hop Cloud Hosting reliability and uptime news

Control Panel:
No current Single Hop specs yet.

Customer Support:
SingleHop is well known in the industry for the quality of our tech support. In most cases, it will take them no longer than 25 minutes to respond to a ticket, and most of the time faster than that. Their telephone hold times are under 20 seconds.

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Amazon EC2 Cloud Hosting Review

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Posted on 26th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting Reviews

Overall Rating3.333.333.333.333.33
Price3.673.673.673.673.67
Uptime3.333.333.333.333.33
Support2.332.332.332.332.33
Features33333

Overview:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Features:
Amazon EC2 provides a number of powerful features for building scalable, failure resilient, enterprise class applications, including: Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) offers persistent storage for Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EC2 provides the ability to place instances in multiple locations, Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing,

Easy To Use:
To use Amazon EC2, you simply:

  • Select a pre-configured, templated image to get up and running immediately. Or create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data, and associated configuration settings.
  • Configure security and network access on your Amazon EC2 instance.
  • Choose which instance type(s) and operating system you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the variety of management tools provided.
  • Determine whether you want to run in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, or attach persistent block storage to your instances.
  • Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data transfer.

Summary:
Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

Click here to visit Amazon Ec2 Cloud Hosting

Reliability and Uptime:
Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable environment where replacement instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned. The service runs within Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and datacenters. The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region.

Customer Support:
Amazon Ec2 has the best support of all the cloud hosting providers.  They have been around longer and know what they are talking about.  The AWS Premium Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel to help you build and run applications on AWS Infrastructure Services.  AWS Premium Support covers issues related to your use of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon SimpleDB, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).  AWS Premium Support costs a fair amount but is worth the costs if you need the support.

Click here to visit Amazon Ec2 Cloud Hosting

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Linux community turning away from Xen virtualization

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Posted on 30th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Alex Barrett states that  “In the past couple of months, hosting providers ranging from IBM, NTT Communications in Japan, the Dutch virtual private server (VPS) provider Tilaa, and Houston, Texas-based The Planet have all said they will offer services based on KVM rather than Xen. At the same time, Red Hat released a beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 last week that no longer contains Xen, which has been in the distribution since RHEL 5.0, released in 2007.”

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SoftCom announces that Parallels will now be in the cloud

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Posted on 30th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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“Parallels, a cloud enablement leader, recently announced that SoftCom, a SaaS business enterprise applications provider, has launched Parallels Automation, which allows the company to offer full service in the cloud.”

“Deploying Parallels Automation was a practical decision both from an operational point of view and from a profitability perspective too,” Celal Ulgen, chief marketing officer for SoftCom, said. “We looked at the alternatives prior to deployment and Parallels stood head and shoulders above the rest. This gave us the extra confidence we needed to be able to trust our entire hosting automation needs to Parallels.”

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What is Cloud Computing and What Are Its Pros and Cons?

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Posted on 29th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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By Patrick Seery (Best Cloud Server Guest Article)

The arguments for this approach are generally strong in terms of convenience. This kind of activity is already common – either in web mail (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc.), Flickr (photos), Megaupload (file transfer), Delicious (bookmarks), etc. In addition, there’s the software safety aspect of keeping everything hosted, where regular backups and upgrades to software, maintain all your information. This is something which doesn’t often happen on PCs, a lot of information gets left behind when upgrades occur. There is however, a comparatively weak argument regarding the economics of the cloud computing approach. Many of these applications are currently free, so the prospect of migrating all your information off your PC and onto some remote server, doesn’t make long term economic sense from the large entity’s perspective. How are they paying for all the computers in the cloud?

Richard Stallman – founder of GNU – the Open Source software foundation, speaking to the Guardian about cloud computing states: “It’s a trap… It’s worse than stupidity, it’s a marketing-hype campaign.”

Get Off My Cloud
Returning to the issue of how these services are going to be paid for. Stallman remains convinced that charges will start small and then be hiked. As corporations (Google and IBM are the two most vociferous proponents), their financial return will no doubt be in the long term, paying less heed to short term revenues and far more interest to global market share. Google’s unofficial motto “don’t be evil”, is surely being tested by employing such a strategy. Perhaps it’s time to consign the phrase to a back room for storage. It’s reminiscent of the IBM of old, when the World would only ever need around a dozen computers (or clouds in this case) – all of them owned by Google (with IBM’s help). Upset these proprietary gorillas and it might affect the future of your business. These ‘cloud-masters’ may find themselves in a position to cherry pick businesses who will do well, and those who will fade into obscurity. Which sounds feudal and undemocratic to me. And possibly evil.

Privacy
There are of course further issues, particularly those associated with user privacy. I know who’s looking on my PC – it’s whoever I give permission to and even then, it’s probably just a login. With your information in a cloud, who knows who might be digging through your private information? Won’t the physical location of the cloud, dictate the laws governing who can access the information? You don’t and probably won’t know, where it is, or who has access to it.

The argument for, is like emptying your household and keeping everything in a large aircraft hangar up the street. When you want something, they send a car round and you can get what you want. Only trouble is – I’m sure someone’s using my stuff when I’m not there and on my way home, last visit, I saw a notice which said: due to costs associated with maintaining this service, it will be necessary to impose a small fee from next week and in really small writing at the bottom – a much larger fee at peak times (weekends – when everyone actually wants to use the service). That’s probably how they’ll fund it.

Old Hat
This is an old strategy – the lightweight, network computer was a buzz-term 15 years ago. It offered a cheap price-point with low functionality (just like IBM ‘dumb’ terminals of the 1970s). You got a very simple PC with nothing stored locally and paid for software use on a remote server, as you used it. That way you could get a PC for $300. It fizzled out and died as a concept – despite backing by all the major players. It’s interesting to note that the $300 price-point was met by fully functioning PCs and Laptops anyway. It’s a warning from history that even if you ignore corporations’ advice, you might still get what they’re promising anyway.

I’ll keep my laptop and programs locally, and publish information to the Internet as and when I want to. I understand the argument that in business you must continually expand or risk being superseded, but the corporations who embrace this ‘take over the world’ philosophy always end up resembling hackneyed, Bond villains. Look on the bright side Google – when cloud computing fails to ignite long term user interest. You can dust down and start unofficially using that ‘don’t be evil’ slogan again.

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Cloud Computing and Open Source Software

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Posted on 29th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Cloud computing would not exist without open source software.  Will open source cloud computing will be the driving factor in helping consumers save money?  Saving money is the goal or cloud computing right?  That’s what I’ve been being told by all the large hosting giants out there.  Then why is all the different software tagged along the cloud servers so expensive?  The only thing that will help is if we standardize cloud hosting and keep it open for everyone to make improvements.  What are your thoughts on this?

Open source has been a viable option within the corporation for a long time, but it is now becoming a force for change. It is now part of the fabric of the IT industry. The IT industry that has been backward in adopting Open Source is now opening it with their arms wide open. They have always been enthusiastic users of free software and, web hosting companies in particular seem to use almost nothing else. (That in turn means that hosted bloggers like me use almost nothing else, because I use the software they provide.)

The costs of cloud services will follow a similar model to licensed software, because as the cloud business grows, its costs will fall through simple economies of scale. And, of course, the end user will probably not see much of those cost reductions. Hopefully all the early cloud server adopters will see those savings… I doubt it.

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Microsoft Gloating about Cloud Partner Successes

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Posted on 29th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Right from Microsoft Hosting Summit 2010, Microsoft is gloating about all of it’s many cloud server and cloud partner successes.  Hosting providers Fasthosts and nGenX  have successfully leveraged the Microsoft “Dynamic Data Center Toolkit” to launch cloud-delivered managed services through their channel partners.

More updates to come!  Read Full Cloud Partner Story

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Amazon Adds Singapore Data Center

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Posted on 29th April 2010 by cloudhostingguy in Cloud Hosting

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Amazon customers in the Asia Pacific Region can now run their cloud computing infrastructure in a data center located in their Region, as Amazon is now hosting services in a data center in Singapore.

“By leveraging AWS’ physical infrastructure in Asia, we are able to minimize latency for our KE Trade iPhone mobile trading app and the speed of our app will not be compromised if there are any sudden spikes in end user traffic,” said Ong Seng Gee, Executive Director, Kim Eng Securities. “Going forward, Kim Eng intends to use AWS cloud computing infrastructure to help enhance our development capability and product innovation, to reinforce our position as a leading stockbroker in Asia.”

“We weighed our options and the decision to use AWS was clearly the best option for launching and running the IPL Indiagames T20Fever game on Facebook,” said Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames. “We have demanding infrastructure requirements and AWS allows us to focus on our business while reducing operational overhead. By leveraging Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon CloudFront, we’ve been able to handle thousands of gamers concurrently without having to spend a rupee on physical infrastructure.”

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