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Poll: Which cloud host do you use?
I am interested in not only seeing what you guys are using, but why you choose one over the other.
- ErrantX 17y agoSlicehost is ok, their pricing structure ramps up very fast though. MediaTemple is the one I would recommend to someone for a single (or just a few) site instance. If they needed multiple servers with complex config (or just want to lay them out in your own way) either EC2 (multiple clients model: we have 150+ instances working as clients) or MediaTemple CX (complex hosting - we are in the process of purchasing a 200 node cluster with them) would be my recommendations.
- raquo 17y agoIMHO Mediatemple is terribly overpriced* even wrt Slicehost - Their 40GB/512MB/1.5TB plan costs $100/mo for example. * - I've no idea how much CX costs though
- davidw 17y agoWell, I've posted it here before, but here goes: http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode
- radu_floricica 17y agoYup, read it before. Thanks! Noticed that most graphs start with the baseline being the lowest value (usually slicehost 512). Which is ok, but for somebody just glancing at them it looks like linode is always a few times better, when usually it's only 10-30%. Some form of relative comparison might be useful.
- JereCoh 17y agoI use Joyent. I would argue that Media Temple is not cloud hosting (and it's "grid" is always down). If Mosso gave OpenSolaris as an option, I would switch to it.
- jkrall 17y ago@Jerecoh: I use Joyent too... and have been very pleased with it. But, I have to admit that we didn't spend a lot of time evaluating all of the other cloud options out there. Why did you choose Joyent?
- SwellJoe 17y agoI think he already told us: "If Mosso gave OpenSolaris as an option, I would switch to it." I'm surprised to see it, since the majority of folks prefer Linux by some margin (certainly the userland is better on Linux). But Solaris has some killer features in the cloud space, and Joyent are doing a great job taking advantage of them. Solaris Zones are quite a bit more efficient than Xen, and quite a bit more stable than OpenVZ/Virtuozzo and vservers (which use roughly the same model as Solaris Zones).
- poppinphresh 17y agoI use Mosso for fun because of the low price. Start up a 20 machine cluster and run it for a couple of hours all for under a dollar.
- piers 17y agoPresumably you use the Cloud Servers rather than the Cloud Host?
- poppinphresh 17y agoYeah, I haven't had a chance to use the Cloud Host.
- known 17y agoNone
- jaxn 17y agoAppEngine doesn't count?
- spencerfry 17y agoIt should. We use Amazon AND AppEngine. AppEngine for e-mails.
- jo 17y agoLast time I checked, this was against appengine terms of service, has that changed?
- spencerfry 17y agoNothing about it in the Terms of Service: http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html
- spencerfry 17y agoAlso, nothing in the Program Policies. It just mentions no SPAM. http://code.google.com/appengine/program_policies.html http://code.google.com/appengine/program_policies.html
- merrick33 17y agoAdded - sorry about that, I forgot.
- djhomeless 17y agoI haven't tried any of these options, mainly because we use Nutch and CPU intensive stuff tends to get a bit pricey. Haven't looked @ Mosso though...
- axod 17y agoDo we have to call it 'cloud'? Can't we just call it hosting like we used to? I use linode for hosting, moved from slicehost - cheaper, and more options. Multiple datacenters etc.
- merrick33 17y agoWell, it's not just hosting though. Typical hosting you cannot just boot down and then boot up a server with 8x the ram or disk space. That's just one thing.
- axod 17y agoOK, It's hosting, with a fast upgrade/downgrade/deployment cycle.
- endtime 17y ago...which is why we call it something different. Sure, "cloud" is an overhyped buzzword, but you've gotta' choose your battles.
- keefe 17y agoThe absolute key thing is that you can do this with an API and pay by the hour! I think the proper term is utility computing and amazon launched the cloud meme with EC2...
- axod 17y agoTrue. >> "...and pay by the hour" If you have money to burn.
- keefe 17y agoBeing able to pay by the hour massively, massively reduces the capital expenditure required when launching a public site? You can launch on a relatively cheap $75-$150 a month and then if you get Slashdot/Digg your code can automatically scale and only pay for the extra capacity when you need ... that's kind of the point of the service. Check out Bezos at startup school last year talking about animoto : http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/jeff-bezos http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/jeff-bezos You can't expect to launch a public site with no budget! It's only a few thousand to support this sort of thing. If you launch unprepared to scale, you are just asking for someone with funding to rewrite your stuff.
- breakall 17y agoWasn't there some Microsoft thing?
- JoelPM 17y agoAzure. https://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx https://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx I haven't looked at it in depth so I don't know how it compares to the offerings listed above. My guess is that it's closer to AppEngine - you write to the MS stack and deploy on their infrastructure, the details of that infrastructure are opaque to you.
- jasonkester 17y agoThat sounds about right. I write all my stuff on the Microsoft stack whenever I have a choice, and still I'm not at all excited about their Cloud offering. They really missed a great opportunity to dominate the space.
- jcapote 17y agoI prefer linode over slicehost because they let me run 32 bit systems as well as 64 bit ones.
- Andys 17y agoWhy is this important to you?
- SwellJoe 17y ago64 bit binaries consume dramatically more memory, thus, unless you have more than 4GB of available RAM, running a 64 bit system is simply stupid.
- wheels 17y agoThere are cases where you need more than 4 GB of virtual address space even if you're not actively using 4 GB of physical memory. Our application, for instance, uses mmap heavily and pretty easily tears through 4 GB of address space while comfortably running on a machine with less RAM. One other nitpick I'd add there is that 64-bit runtimes consume drastically more memory -- mostly meaning interpreted languages, JVMs, etc. Compiled C, C++, etc. fare better since they usually make use of the stack more widely rather than having everything running through three levels of indirection (thus using lots of 8-byte pointers) up in the heap.
- SwellJoe 17y agoA 64-bit OS build consumes more memory, even if your app does not. Perhaps there are special cases where it still makes sense, despite losing memory (though your example use case makes me feel funny, and not in a good way, but I don't know enough about such things to argue), but in the general web hosting case, it is stupid to have a 64 bit OS with less than 4GB of RAM. As you note, the difference is much more dramatic in dynamic languages (Ruby, Python, PHP, and Perl applications simply explode in size when run on 64 bit systems...like 50%-75% larger).
- codemechanic 17y agowe use slicehost. amazing service.
- agotterer 17y agoI have multiple boxes with slicehost. Couldnt be more happy. The customer service is fantastic. Usually get an email response within 2 - 3 hours. Admin interface is easy to use. Theres also a huge repository of tutorials and howtos for setting up your system.
- quellhorst 17y agoI use softlayer, mosso cloud servers, s3 and ec2.
- aristus 17y agoAWS and Mosso, possibly Slicehost in the future.
- mannicken 17y agoLinode for *nix, VPSLand for Win2k3. Both awesome services.
- kierank 17y agoWe use Flexiscale because of the low cost per core. CPU power is our bottleneck. Flexiscale has also been cheaper for us owing to the weak pound.
- iamelgringo 17y agoEC2 for windows server hosting
- niels 17y agoI use App Engine because of its simplicity and ease of deployment. I include Django trunk in my sources, so I am not really missing anything for regular web apps.
- swombat 17y agoEngineYard (kind of cloud... well if linode is, so's EngineYard)
- apalmblad 17y agoI'm on EngineYard as well, and have been pretty happy.
- tjr 17y agoOpenHosting. It seemed the most reputable at the time I first got the service, though today I'd probably pick SliceHost. No problems with OpenHosting, but SliceHost offers more for the same cost. I'd switch over, if I got myself motivated to go through the process of moving my data.
- morficus 17y agoI've been using Linode for about 3 months now and I'm 100% satisfied with both their service, the quality/rapid response of their support and billing team as well as the helpfulness of their IRC community. I originally was thinning between SliceHost and Linode, the Linode offered 'more bang for the buck' - same prices (and as far s I've read, quality too) as SliceHost, but with more RAM and disk space
- tofumatt 17y agoLinode's extra features (HA clustering, internal networks, custom partitioning, DNS service, and API), great support, and sweet price points all make it an amazing host.
- sant0sk1 17y agoDreamHost, SliceHost, and Heroku. Didn't know which poll choice to select so I went with "Other" :|
- rwebb 17y agoM5
- snowstorm 17y agoI use slicehost and AWS. I wish AWS offers EC2 instances with less ram like 512mb and 1GB. I was going to try Cloud Server from Mosso(http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers_pricing.jsp http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers_pricing.jsp). But its outgoing bandwidth is too expensive for 22cents/GB.
- Xoff 17y agoLinode service is fantastic, and its by geeks for geeks.
- ginamarie 17y agoI totally agree!
- igorlima 17y agoMosso has a slick suite offering. There is great potential here.
- sanswork 17y agoI have a bunch of servers with Amazon, a few with GoGrid and a couple personal ones with SliceHost(probably going to be switching to Linode soon). Amazon + Scalr is by far my favourite.
- purana 17y agoLinode.com thumbs up
- uggedal 17y agoslicehost, prgmr, linode (currently evaluating prgmr and linode)
- bkrausz 17y agoVPSLink anyone? I've had few trouble with them, though they're young enough that they do occasionally run into hiccups.
- rhhtdc 17y agoi can NEVER get linode on the phone...it's an infinite freaking loop...
- tasaro 17y agoit's not an infinite loop. leave a message and we'll return your call.
- rhhtdc 17y agoslicehost
- juliend2 17y agoI use Linode but i read the SliceHost doc when i need to set up my node. The best of both worlds!
- christefano 17y agoI'm abstaining since I use the services of 3 companies included in the poll and 1 that isn't (Rimuhosting).
- pg 17y agoLooks like someone gamed this poll. 36 of Linode's 93 votes came from newly created accounts. (For comparison, 1 of Amazon's 78 did.) I think in future I'll ignore votes of newly created accounts in polls. For now I'm going to manually subtract them.
- tasaro 17y agoThis may have something to do with it. Did you manually subtract votes from all newly created accounts or just Linode's? http://is.gd/xuVf http://is.gd/xuVf http://is.gd/xuUZ http://is.gd/xuUZ http://is.gd/xuVE http://is.gd/xuVE
- pg 17y agoEveryone's. Linode had the most.
- wheels 17y agoI'm confused at the numbers then: 93 - 36 > 24 (current number of votes)
- pg 17y agoOops, I changed the software to ignore votes from newly created users, but in this case I'd already manually subtracted them. I fixed it.
- manualsmania 17y agohttp://www.manualsmania.com http://www.manualsmania.com
- A83 17y agoI'm using Slicehost right now but plan to switch to Mosso as soon as they support billing of clients outside of USA.
- manualsmania 17y agobtw, I think you should add GoGrid to the list...
- balabinba 17y agoWe've been migrating from theplanet to Mosso for a month and cloud hosting concept is great. Mosso's live chat service is very responsive and helpful. I chose it for its partnership with Limelight CDN service and the service reputation by Rackspace.
- rboothby 17y agoWhere's Joyent?
- mkered 17y agoI was using SliceHost for about 3-4 months for playing around. Service and support were good, but I recently switched to a MediaTemple Rage DV and I love everything about it except for Plesk. Linode looks interesting and cheap, hmmm.
- mjeppsen 17y agoVery satisfied with MediaTemple service and support.
- danbedford 17y agoI agree with keefe that "cloud" should be replaced with "utility computing". I host my website with Media Temple on their (gs) Grid, but when I use utility comp services, I use Amazon. Why is Media Temple even on here? Utility computing services let you provision servers at will, where Media Temple still has to provision your server for you. So, to answer your question, I use AWS EC2 as my "cloud host".
- tobyx 17y agoMedia Temple. Best customer service, best karma.
- kngspook 17y agoGandi.net should probably be on the list, with their recently-out-of-beta hosting offering. I hear good things, though I can't claim to have tried it myself.