Overview:
SymetriQ’s cloud platform has been built from the ground up to meet the needs of users who demand enterprise-level service, so you’ll find it has many features that differentiate it from other cloud providers:

• Highly secure and robust Data Centres that are fully ISO9000 & ISO27001 compliant
• Fully redundant power feeds and IP transits
• Only Tier 1 Hardware is used in the SymetriQ Cloud
• SymetriQ can guarantee the location of your data
• Data Centres are on the N3 Network
• All Data Centre staff are SC cleared
• Granular Billing Engine allows accurate interdepartmental billing
• Our GUI allows for the easy provisioning of complex enterprise level networks

Features:

Summary:
SymetriQ is a provider of cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).  In essence, they offer virtual server hosting on their UK-based infrastructure, which you can deploy in minutes to create your own virtual data centre. Specifically they provide you with the following services via our virtual servers and all are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, like utility billing:

• Processing power
• Memory
• Storage
• Bandwidth
• Operating Systems (Windows, Solaris, Linux)

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Reliability and Uptime:
Build with Sun Hardware, Local and SAN Based Storage, Integrated Backup and Restore, Guarantee of Data Location, Government Level Security Datacentre.

Customer Support:

Phone support is available upon request.  CymetriQ cloud hosting offers email support via support@symetriq.com. They endeavour to get back to you within 4 Hours. Customers are also urged to consult the forums for guidance on everyday issues.

Coupon:
15 Day Trial for £1.00

Overview:
CariNet will train you on how to use and leverage 3tera’s ® AppLogic ™ Cloud OS to maximize your IT investment. The DEV Cloud Hosting platform enables you to optimize the software test and delivery cycle for greater agility and quality control in an environment of constant change. CariNet’s DEV Cloud Services will help you create a more productive, dynamic yet stable test environment by assessing your requirements and then providing a strategic road map to the scalable cloud solution tailored to exceed your needs.

Features:
Your storage volume is automatically mirrored on at least two nodes in the grid at all times. It’s an automatic RAID-1 setup with no configuration or hassle on your part! If your server crashes, AppLogic will automatically restart it on another node, so any downtime is absolutely minimal. There are NO SETUP FEES – just a single fixed monthly cost, which will simply be prorated up or down if you need to change your Cloud Server size at any point during the month.

Unlike a traditional server, this bandwidth is NOT just for data traffic between your application and the public! Since your hard drives are virtualized, network bandwidth is also used for all disk I/O. The limiting is performed in real time, so if the limit is reached, your application may simply slow down (especially if you are working with large files), but it will not stop working.

Summary:
Subscribers get five one-on-one training sessions covering the basic operation of an AppLogic virtual data center. The training will be tailored to and focused on your specific needs and current technology.  The On-Demand public cloud service (powered by AppLogic™) enables utility computing by building applications that are completely self-contained and fully scalable. The exact quantity of resources assigned to each instance of the application is entirely dependent on the users’ needs at any given time. The On-Demand cloud service gives the end user the unique ability to scale in any direction on-the-fly based on their specific needs at the time.

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Reliability and Uptime:
99.999% uptime guarantee on all dedicated servers each calendar year.

• 1 or More Hours Downtime = 1 Day Credit
• 4 or More Hours Downtime = 1 Week Credit

Customer Support:
Subscribers get five one-on-one training sessions covering the basic operation of an AppLogic virtual data center. The training will be tailored to and focused on your specific needs and current technology.  CariNet’s in-house technical support staff are ready to help 24×7×365. Our staff carry Cisco, Microsoft (MCSE), CCNA, CCIE, & A+ certifications in addition to years of technical support background and training.

Overview:
Cloud.bg hosting platform creates competitive advantage for you. Cloud.bg cloud hosting can not compare their cloud hosting solution to other similar services, because at the time it was launched (January 20, 2010) there were no other providers on the European hosting market to run fully automated cPanel/WHM enabled cloud hosting service.

Features:
Cloud.bg customers can move their websites and applications on the cloud risk-free, without any need to learn new technologies and to adapt to the Fuscan Linux Cloud andcPanel/WHM.  You always have enough disc space, data transfer and power in your Cloud.bg hosting account and all the resources are guaranteed. Cloud.bg cloud professionals can always allocate more SAN space, bandwidth or processor time if you need them.

Summary:
Cloud.bg is not just a provider of Cloud Hosting, but is the only one on the market to offer cPanel/WHM enabled Cloud hosting. This does not mean separate virtual instances (vps), but a large load-balanced infrastructure that runs cPanel on top.

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Reliability and Uptime:
When you host your websites on the the Cloud.bg you can welcome hundred thousands or even millions of daily visitors on your websites. You will not have a service outage and Cloud.bg will handle the load.

Customer Support:
24/7 Phone and ticket support.

Get  FREE Cloud Hosting SSL Certificate (coupon code “FREECLOUDSSL”)

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:
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.

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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

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Overview:
AirVm is a leader in hosted VMware cloud services. Their equipment is in a state-of-the-art SAS 70 type II certified data center, with redundant power and network connectivity. Live on-demand snapshots

Features:
With SAN storage, flexible RAM and CPUs plus your choice of OS, VMs that are tailored to your needs. Preconfigured VMs are supported and are deployed directly into their cloud environment. Clients can trade performance for capacity. Switch from Tier-1 to Tier-2 storage on the fly and receive triple the amount of space at no additional cost or have both a Tier-1 and Tier-2 virtual disk in a single VM.

Summary:
Tier-1 hardware, software and network.  Basic package comes with CentOS, Ubuntu, or Debian for your Operating System.  32 bit or 64bit, 25 GB Tier-1 Storage, 1 GB Memory, 1 500 MHz Processor, 500 GB/mo Bandwidth, along with 1 Daily Snapshot.  If you would like c-panel on your cloud server it will cost you an additional $17.00/month

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Reliability and Uptime:
AirVM Cloud Hosting use the finest quality servers and hosting equipment with 24/7 monitoring & UPS power backup. Reliability has always been a good selling point for AirVM and we have always received great results and feedback. They have redundant power and network connectivity to always keep your cloud server up.

Control Panel:
AirVM cloud hosting use cPanel control panel at an additional cost of $17/month per server.  You can have Plesk 9 on your cloud server for $15.oo/month

Customer Support:
AirVm Cloud Hosting has a very interesting support section using primarily a ticket system although they have a emergency ticket system.

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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

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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.

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.

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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.

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Overview:
GoDaddy.com is the world’s largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The GoDaddy Group, Inc. As an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Go Daddy has more names under management than any other registrar, offers products at prices up to 70% less than the competition and supports them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.  With Go Daddy hosting and servers, your online presence is secure, reliable and lightning-fast. Best of all, every plan comes with a rich feature set to help you make the most of your site. No wonder that millions of satisfied customers have made them the world’s largest hostname provider.

Features:
Powered by Apple’s enterprise-class Xserve® and Parallels™ technology, GoDaddy Cloud Servers provide ready-to-use email, user directory, chat and more — right out of the box. Plus, complete iPhone® integration and Mac and Windows® compatibility insure that everyone in your company will benefit.

Summary:
Go Daddy cloud hosting require patience at times.  For instance, expect long waiting times for requests (such as the installing applications or setting up databases) made on your hosting account.  Many users might have an issue with this flaw because their visitors demand new and fresh content without having to wait for it.  This wait time is understandable though.  When your service is as popular as the one Go Daddy offers, your servers are going to get overloaded every so often.  It’s inevitable.  They should get more powerful servers to eliminate these delays.  Luckily, Go Daddy’s popularity has remained consistent over the years, which means they’re a solid option in the web hosting world.

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Reliability and Uptime:
Go Daddy’s hosting plans offer 99.9% guaranteed uptime, best-of-breed routers, servers and firewalls.

Customer Support:
GoDaddy Cloud Hosting claims to have the best 24/7 support and maintenance on the Web.

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This technology helps customers to host their website by spending just the right amount of money and with high efficiency. In cloud hosting, you will be managing your website which is actually distributed over a network of servers. With Cloud Hosting, it is also easy to add resources to the website and expand it when the website needs it.

So, why should a business choose cloud hosting over the traditional methods of website hosting? Well, the answer is simple; using Cloud Hosting services, the company will be able to save a lot of money when it comes to website hosting. This is because Cloud Hosting does not require the same amount of resources when compared to normal web hosting.

When you hire Cloud Hosting services, you only need to pay for what you actually use. This helps extremely in reducing the costs of website operation. With most Cloud Hosting service providers, there is option for you to select whether you want to pay for what you use or pay a fixed monthly amount. If you choose to subscribe for a longer period at the beginning itself, most cloud hosting service providers offer discounted rates.

Look whether the Cloud Hosting service provider is offering any website building tools with the hosting package. If there is, check how efficient the tool is and whether it can be used with your website. Control panel is a very important part of a website for every website administrator. Therefore, take a peek at the control panel of the hosting service to see how easy it is to use and how much control you have over the website and resources.

An easy to handle control panel can always contribute to better website efficiency. It is also important to get a word regarding the uptime of the website that service provider promises. With cloud hosting, there is little chance for the website to face any downtime.

A lot of cloud hosting service providers is coming to the lime light these days. The number has increased drastically and it has also made the process of selection little bit harder for the companies. It would help the cause immensely if the company decides to choose a service provider who has been an active presence in the field for some years.

Experience in providing cloud hosting services would definitely be a plus for selecting the service provider. If anything unexpected happens to the server, then the experience of the service provider will definitely come into play when resolving the issue. The technical support team of the service provider has to be up to the mark and always ready to help you with the problems that you face.