[BBLISA] Cloud services: Amazon versus ...

[Paul Beltrani]

For the thread, I've been very happy with Slicehost,
http://www.slicehost.com/.  For $20/month I have system that's fine
for hosting my email and web servers.

Unfortunately, I don't think they will meet your needs as I believe
they only support Linux.

Something to consider is, do you need the flexibility of Amazon EC2?
Their tools and model are great if you need to spin up systems quickly
for some task and then turn them off.  However, if you're going to be
running one or two servers 24x7, the tools become less useful and the
recurring costs can be greater than that of the "virtual host"
vendors.

  - Paul Beltrani

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <lopser at nedharvey.com> wrote:
> What other cloud services are people using?
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> I'm asking in general, for general knowledge.  But I'm also asking for a
> specific reason right now.  Up till now, I've been doing my home backups by
> periodically rotating a disk offsite.  I'd like to start doing backups over
> the WAN instead.  I am aware of services such as mozy & crashplan, but
> that's not what I want to use.  I specifically want to be able to "zfs
> receive" on the remote end, which means I want to build my own personal
> virtual solaris/opensolaris server.
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> Amazon is an option.  But I don't want to naively assume it's the best
> option.
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> Thanks...
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