Have you looked into EC2 at all? While they have precanned "instance types" as well, they also offer a separate Elastic Block Storage service where you can ask

Have you looked into EC2 at all? While they have precanned "instance types" as well, they also offer a separate Elastic Block Storage service where you can ask for as much storage as you want, and it acts like a virtual hard disk on your partition. http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/