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Cloud Central Cloud Hosting Review

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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Overview:
Cloud Central is located in AU with their own private “cloud” in a secure data center in Canberra.  They provide an easy way for a person to sign up for cloud hosting with a very user friendly back end. This makes it easy for cloud hosting customers to upgrade on the fly.

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Features:

  • Pay As You Grow – Start from just 3c per hour / $20 per month, and pay only for what you use
  • Rapid Scalablity – Cloud Servers offer instant scalability, increase or decrease your capacity at any time
  • Instant Provisioning – Cloud Servers can be created and running in under 2 minutes
  • Free Load Balancing – Cloud Servers can be load balanced for FREE for optimum performance
  • Persistent SAN Storage – Cloud Servers feature persistent mirrored ZFS SAN storage

Summary:

The Cloud Central platform is Xen (v.3.3) based.  What’s unique is that users receive guaranteed CPU share that is burstable to the entire CPU available on the server. Even more intriguing is the way in which the company has defined its unit of cloud computing, choosing to use the nomenclature of a nano, or 1/8th of a CCU as its base offering. The CCU is a standardized measure of compute power that Cloud Central devised to define a unit of measure to compare the performance of cloud infrastructure CPUs. Cloud Central’s Cloud Server range starts with 256MB RAM, 16GB of SAN storage space, 1/8 CCUs and a single CPU core. The Cloud Central Cloud Server range features cloud servers including small, large and extra-large units available up to a maximum of 8 CCUs, 16GB memory, and 1024GB of SAN storage space for Australian $1.92 per hour.

Click here to visit Cloud Central Cloud Hosting

Reliability and Uptime:
SLA is 99.9% uptime.

Customer Support:
Cloud Central was created from the very beginning to be a provider that our customers can rely on. There are real people behind the web site, and your Cloud Central support team is available to you 24×7. At the same time, they strive to make your experience as user-friendly, straightforward and error-free as possible, so that the need for customer service is kept to a minimum. Your data will be located in Cloud Central’s own private “cloud” in our secure data center in Canberra.

Sign up today, and have a fully functioning data center in five minutes

Traditional on-premises solutions require a lengthy process of issuing RFPs and comparing equipment, time-consuming deployment and testing, and high up-front costs. Cloud Central lets you get up and running right away.

The process is simple

  1. Signup for the Cloud Central private beta program.
  2. Login to the Control Center.
  3. Choose a Cloud Server size starting from 256 MB memory, 16 GB SAN storage – 1 CPU through to 15.5 GB memory, 1 TB SAN storage and 4 CPU’s.
  4. Choose from one of our 64-bit operating systems, including CentOS 5, Debian 5, Ubuntu 9, and Windows Server 2008 R2, with your choice of pre-installed web, application and database software.
  5. Your new Cloud Server will be ready to use in less than two minutes.
  6. You’re in business! Start deploying your SaaS applications and take advantage of Cloud Central’s superior infrastructure.

CloudCentral Server Provisioning Evaluation from Andre Leibovici on Vimeo.

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Windows Azure Cloud Hosting Review

Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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Overview:
Windows Azure is a flexible platform that supports multiple languages and integrates with your existing on-premises environment. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio® expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.

  • Compute = $0.12 / hour
  • Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
  • Storage transactions = $0.01 / 10K
  • Data transfers (excluding CDN) = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB – ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)*
  • CDN data transfers = $0.15 GB for North America and Europe ($0.20 GB elsewhere)**
  • CDN transactions = $0.01 / 10K**
  • Introductory Special – Promotional offer with an amount of Windows Azure Platform services provided each month at no charge. Requires no monthly commitment and is the first plan to choose if you are unsure how much you will use each month. For SQL Azure this offer is only valid for 3 months.
  • Consumption – Flexible “Pay As You Go” plan for all Windows Azure platform services. If you need one or more additional subscriptions that require no monthly commitment, this is the plan for you.
  • MSDN Premium – Promotional offer with a monthly amount of Windows Azure Platform services provided as an added benefit to MSDN premium subscribers. Requires you to be a MSDN Premium subscriber.

Features:

Windows Azure Platform products overview

  • Run enterprise workloads in the cloud
  • Build, modify, and distribute scalable applications with minimal on-premises resources
  • Perform large-volume storage, batch processing, intense or large-volume computations
  • Create, test, debug, and distribute Web services quickly and inexpensively

Summary:

  • Bring your ideas to market faster and pay as you go
  • Reduce costs of building and extending on-premises resources
  • Reduce the effort and costs of IT management
  • Respond quickly to changes in your business and customer needs
  • Choose an on-premises or off-premises deployment model that best suits your needs.
  • Scale your IT resources up and down based on your needs.
  • Consume computing resources ONLY when the needs arise.
  • Focus less energy on managing operational resources and constraints.
  • Remove the need to manage hardware
  • Use your existing development skills to build cloud applications
  • Consistent development and management experience across on-premises and the cloud.

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Reliability and Uptime:
Microsoft Windows Azure has 99.95% uptime

Customer Support:
24/7/365

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GigeNET Cloud Hosting Review

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
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Overview:
The GigeNET Cloud cloud is built on a completely redundant and transparent 10 Gb/s network infrastructure, we also offer all customer clouds access to a 1 Gb/s port. Thats 10x faster than the average dedicated server. Best of all, we offer 1 Gb/s ports at no additonal cost.  To facilitate the use of the Xen Hypervisor GigeNET Cloud also utilizes Citrix Xenserver. Xenserver takes enterprise level virtualization to the next level. GigeNET Cloud offers high availability, live migrations, downtime node maintenance, complete redundance, and many more features that other cloud providers simply cannot offer.

  • Fully Redundant, Self Healing SAN’s CPU utilization based on the amount memory assigned to a machine.
  • A friendly, reliable control panel that offers usability second to none.
  • Support for multiple linux distributions.
  • Completely transparent private networking with free unmetered bandwidth

Features:
Reliable Clouds Starting at $10/mo or 1.3¢/hr. GigeNET Cloud utilizes the Xen Hypervisor to offer full Hardware Based Virtualization to all of our cloud servers. Xen is a reliable industry standard that provides quick and efficient virtuzlization for nearly every Operating System.

Summary:

  • Fastest Cloud Server Deployment on the GLOBE! Deploy a server in under 1 minute!
  • FREE Windows on all Windows Cloud Servers!
  • Xen Hypervisor using Citrix Xenserver Technology.
  • Direct KVM console access that can be used to recover a file system failure, or malformed network configuration.
  • Fully Redundant, High Availability SAN’s with Automatic Failover.
  • 10Gbps Ethernet Throughout the entire cloud infrastructure.
  • CPU utilization based on the amount of memory assigned to a machine. CPU Bursting when needed and available.
  • All cloud nodes are based on 64-bit architectures.
  • A friendly, reliable control panel that offers usability second to none.
  • IDS (Intrusion Detection System) default on all Cloud Servers. Protected by Juniper SRX.
  • Multiple elastic public IP addresses.
  • Support for multiple Linux Distributions
  • No overselling or over comissioning of resources.
  • Completely transparent private networking with free unmetered bandwidth between other machines.
  • Ability for Virtual Machines to use 32-bit or 64-bit architectures.
  • Full Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Support.

Click here to visit GigeNET Cloud Hosting

Reliability and Uptime:
99.999% uptime guarantee

Customer Support:
24×7 support and an average of 5 minutes or less hold time to reach an expert who’s committed to helping you with your support needs. GigeNet cloud hosting offers help where others fail with blazing fast responses and insightful answers.

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