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Wasn't Flexiscale the first UK cloud service?
by kierank 16y ago
Wasn't Flexiscale the first UK cloud service?
- petercooper 16y agoI think I might have caused confusing by "tweaking" the title on submission. Brightbox claim to be "the UK’s first true IaaS platform" but I wasn't familiar with the term IaaS (though I know what it stands for). It seems, to me, that "IaaS" has a little more to it than just selling VPSes which companies have been doing for ages.
- jeremyjarvis 16y ago"Offering VPSes at a single datacentre (even with an API) is, in our humble opinion, not a "cloud". There are actually very few existing "true" cloud providers - Amazon EC2 is, of course, currently the largest and most well known." -- FAQs
- kierank 16y agoFlexiscale isn't a VPS provider IMO. Although they've changed the pricing model a bit, you can purchase servers per hour like Amazon and scale up and down without problems.