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Ask HN: Apart from Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Joyent any other cloud provider?

7 points by fgblanch 16y ago

I have used Amazon EC2 and Rackspace (Joyent not yet) , but I'm looking for some other Iaas (Infrastructure as a service) providers any ideas?

spooneybarger 16y ago
there is http://www.gogrid.com/ http://www.gogrid.com/ but i don't personally have any experience using them.
devspade 16y ago
My company used GoGrid prior to me getting here. The anecdotal reviews were very very bad. That being said I've never used them and it was 18 months + ago so maybe they are better now. We use EC2 almost exclusively but do run some instances on Terremark (http://www.terremark.com/services/cloudcomputing.aspx http://www.terremark.com/services/cloudcomputing.aspx) just because we had some issues a while back where EC2 wasn't letting us create new instances for like a week and we wanted to have some insurance.
koenbok 16y ago
http://www.linode.com/index.cfm http://www.linode.com/index.cfm is pretty good.
- fgblanch 16y ago
  I knew about this one but we are looking for cpu/hour service. It seems that linode only have monthly plans!
superjared 16y ago
Storm On Demand has a pretty cool offering with decent prices. They even have a "bare metal cloud". http://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/ http://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/
fgblanch 16y ago
I've just found: - Microsoft azure http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/compute/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/compute/default.aspx - SoftLayer http://www.softlayer.com/ http://www.softlayer.com/ - NewServer http://www.newservers.com/ http://www.newservers.com/
Rantenki 16y ago
http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud in Sweden, presumably safer against DMCA etc.
fragmede 16y ago
Surprised no one else has mentioned Heroku and GAE yet.
- fgblanch 16y ago
  They are not Infrastructure as a server providers. They provide platforms to deploy applications
strooltz 16y ago
EngineYard - http://engineyard.com http://engineyard.com. they're built on top of EC2 and a little pricey but their support/service is incredible and they make it a breeze to deploy...

7 points by fgblanch 16y ago

I have used Amazon EC2 and Rackspace (Joyent not yet) , but I'm looking for some other Iaas (Infrastructure as a service) providers any ideas?

spooneybarger 16y ago

there is http://www.gogrid.com/ http://www.gogrid.com/ but i don't personally have any experience using them.

devspade 16y ago

My company used GoGrid prior to me getting here. The anecdotal reviews were very very bad. That being said I've never used them and it was 18 months + ago so maybe they are better now. We use EC2 almost exclusively but do run some instances on Terremark (http://www.terremark.com/services/cloudcomputing.aspx http://www.terremark.com/services/cloudcomputing.aspx) just because we had some issues a while back where EC2 wasn't letting us create new instances for like a week and we wanted to have some insurance.

koenbok 16y ago

http://www.linode.com/index.cfm http://www.linode.com/index.cfm is pretty good.

fgblanch 16y ago
I knew about this one but we are looking for cpu/hour service. It seems that linode only have monthly plans!

superjared 16y ago

Storm On Demand has a pretty cool offering with decent prices. They even have a "bare metal cloud". http://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/ http://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/

fgblanch 16y ago

I've just found: - Microsoft azure http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/compute/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/compute/default.aspx - SoftLayer http://www.softlayer.com/ http://www.softlayer.com/ - NewServer http://www.newservers.com/ http://www.newservers.com/

Rantenki 16y ago

http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud in Sweden, presumably safer against DMCA etc.

fragmede 16y ago

Surprised no one else has mentioned Heroku and GAE yet.

fgblanch 16y ago
They are not Infrastructure as a server providers. They provide platforms to deploy applications

strooltz 16y ago

EngineYard - http://engineyard.com http://engineyard.com. they're built on top of EC2 and a little pricey but their support/service is incredible and they make it a breeze to deploy...