On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Steve Power <steev@initsix.co.uk> wrote:

EC2 can be viewed in the same way as a dedicated host in terms of management. i.e. you have to be able to run the servers and OS like you would a dedicated host. bytemark.co.uk are the only people i can recommend for a vps, but again once you start paying for engineers to do stuff, you're looking at similar prices to rackspace.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@theingots.org> wrote:

Jamie Holly wrote:

Not really. I pretty much recommend people go with a bigger service like RackSpace, which has a very solid reputation, but also comes with a steep price tag (of course the old saying "you get what you pay for" comes into play here).

How about Mosso? (www.mosso.com) A cloud service owned by RackSpace. But if I understand their pricing correctly, the service starts at $350/mo. I hope I'm wrong. If you look at http://www.mosso.com/cloud.jsp it says:

"Step Two: Watch it Scale
...
* Scale your bandwidth
Starts at 500GB/mo. As much as you need for 25¢ per GB
* Scale your storage
Starts at 50GB/mo. As much as you need for 50¢ per GB
* Scale your compute
Starts at 10,000 compute cycles/mo. As many as you need for 1¢ per compute cycle"

So we have a minimum of: 500*0.25 + 50*0.25 + 10000*0.01 = $350/mo.

:-(

Honestly, our site would do fine with 5GB of disk space and 10GB of bandwidth.

Daniel.

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