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These days I think that's like asking what hosting provider you use and why. There are so many out there which have some sort of cloud elements these days. If
by gexla 16y ago
These days I think that's like asking what hosting provider you use and why. There are so many out there which have some sort of cloud elements these days. If going the dedicated server route, Softlayer is among the best. If going VPS, then Rackspace / Slicehost can give you great flexibility with pricing options (and some of the cheapest VPS options if you have low traffic.) EC2 is among the best if you need a well developed swiss army knife / kitchen sink API and wide assortment of services to work with. Heroku is among the best if you work with Ruby and don't want to be bothered with system administration (Lot's of others rising up in this space, and GAE for Python / Java.) Joyent is great if you would rather work in Solaris rather than Linux.
Edit: Forgot to mention Azure for the MS world, though EC2 also offers Windows servers. I should have known to mention Linode since that service is so popular with the HN community. Though the Rackspace options provide more cloud services last I checked.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoI would imagine for most use cases, Linode would be a better and more cost-effective option in place of Slicehost, and their level of support is just as good.
- gexla 16y agoSure, I didn't claim that Slicehost has the best performing machines. The EC2 micros are terrible, but I plugged EC2 for it's API's and other AWS services. Slicehost / Rackspace also has more cloud services the last I checked. But this may not be true anymore or for much longer (cloud storage, CDN, etc)
- haploid 16y agoSoftlayer customer here, but not for long. Some points need to be made about SoftLayer: 1. They have a fantastic network. 2. Point #1 is the only good thing that could be said about them. They used to be an incredible company, but recently, following the TP merger, they have adopted a policy of capriciously shutting down customers without notice for arbitrary reasons that have nothing to do with TOS or AUP violations. See the cases of SimpleCDN and SiteGround for examples of this. Host with SL at your own risk.
- foobarbazetc 16y agoThere are plenty of good things to say about SoftLayer (and I'll say that they're the best dedicated host by a huge margin) -- including awesome hardware, great prices if you talk to sales, great network, and unrivalled automation in the portal. As per SimpleCDN, see http://twitter.com/#!/SoftLayer/status/15059240414609408 http://twitter.com/#!/SoftLayer/status/15059240414609408 I think there's more to that story than any of the other parties are letting on. Edit: But I agree with you that the TP merger has not been without issues. It's like things have ground to a halt over there, which is a real shame. Hopefully it's just a transient thing.