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Their prices seem really high. 1 instance with 1.7GB RAM is $233/m vs $44/m for Amazon EC2. What an I missing here?
by dbrian 14y ago
Their prices seem really high. 1 instance with 1.7GB RAM is $233/m vs $44/m for Amazon EC2. What an I missing here?
- acjohnson55 14y agoDotcloud is built on top of EC2 to provide super painless configuration and management. If you want to manage your whole stack, EC2 is not a bad way to go, but for early testing and deployment with modest hosting needs, it's a cheap way to avoid a lot of sysadmin work. Particularly if you haven't done it a whole bunch of times before. There are a whole bunch of folks that provide this type of service, it's called "Platform as a Service".
- hoop 14y agoHi, dotCloud employee here. You're missing the 24x7 on call engineers who monitor your application, the single-command scaling, the built-in metrics and logging, and the easy deployments, at a minimum. The way I look at it, personally, is that we're not hardware providers. Instead, we provide some level of "ops as a service" -- partially through tooling and partially through highly skilled engineers.
- ksajadi 14y agoYou can try something like DigitalOcean combined with http://www.cloud66.com http://www.cloud66.com for even a cheaper combination and greater control.