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10 Amazon EC2 Alternatives
Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is dersigned to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ Digital Ocean Deploy an 512MB RAM and 20GB SSD cloud server in 55 seconds for $5/month. Simple, fast, scalable SSD cloud virtual servers. This competitor was recently featured on Uncrunched and the site boasted, “Digital Ocean v. AWS: 10x Performance For 1/3 Cost”. I am floored at how fast their servers are (if you know linux try doing something like du or updatedb or even find / -iname “*firefox*” – each command takes about 1 second! https://www.digitalocean.com/ Slicehost / Rackspace Create Cloud Virtual Servers in minutes and pay per usage. Get a Windows or Linux Cloud Server with root access. 1 to 50 servers in minutes. Choose a server size and pay for what you use. Accessible … Continue reading
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