I updated the virtual hosting buyer’s guide that I’ve been maintaining for a while now; I also gave it its own permalink so I wouldn’t have to keep looking at old posts on this blog to figure out where the data resided. It now lives at http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/projects/hosting.
Today’s big news is Amazon’s announcement of EC2 Micro [...]
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Updated Virtual Hosting Buyer’s Guide
September 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Amazon, Virtualization, Work
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Updated VPS Hosting Price Comparison (June 2010)
June 16th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Virtualization, Web/Tech
Update: There’s a more recent version of the data below at http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/projects/hosting.
Linode announced that they’re increasing the amount of RAM by a lot (like 40%) on all of their virtual server products today. I’ve been watching pricing for a few of these services for about a year now and I’ve made a few posts comparing [...]
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Price Points for VPS Hosting Services
February 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Virtualization, Web/Tech
Over the past few years I’ve done a few posts highlighting the differences between various virtual hosting services, including Slicehost (which we use today and are happy with) and Amazon EC2 (which we’ve used on behalf of consulting clients and also like quite a bit). But as more virtual hosting products with different price points [...]
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Comparative Pricing for Virtual Hosting Providers
June 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Amazon, Virtualization, Web/Tech, Work
Rackspace just launched a new suite of cloud computing (really virtualized hosting) products. We use a bunch of these products from different companies. We also have a consulting practice dedicated to Amazon’s EC2 offering, so I wanted to take a closer look at how the different offerings stack up in terms of price and features. [...]
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Windows on Amazon EC2
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Virtualization
Back in February I suggested that Amazon and Microsoft should figure out a way to provide Windows Server on Amazon’s EC2 hosting service. Three weeks ago, Amazon announced a private beta of their Windows hosting service on EC2; today they are opening EC2 on Windows up to everyone.
Their pricing is interesting. It’s slightly more than [...]
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New Platform Consulting Products: Amazon and Facebook
October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Amazon, Business, Collaboration, Content, Community, Facebook, Virtualization, Web/Tech, Work
Just posted three new categories of consulting practices over on the consulting web site:
Facebook (application strategy, corporate presence and application development)
Amazon Web Services (focusing on their S3 storage and EC2 hosting products)
The Facebook and Amazon practices actually aren’t new, but we’ve packaged them up in the form of consulting practices and put them on the [...]
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Google App Engine: Fish or Foul?
April 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Google, Virtualization, Web/Tech
We’ve been paying attention to the launch of Google App Engine over the past day and a half and we will continue to keep an eye on it on behalf of our consulting clients. As is often the case with paradigm-challenging products, people often try to characterize the new thing in terms of what they [...]
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Make Windows Server’s Licencing Virtualizable
February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Microsoft, Virtualization
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on behalf of clients who are looking to deploy applications to virtual data centers. When I first started working as a technology consultant in the ’90s, it was a given that if you wanted to have a web application, you had to buy a bunch of servers [...]
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Amazon Rolls Out New EC2 Server Types
October 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon, Virtualization
Amazon.com added some beefier server configurations to their EC2 virtualization product (and some new price points). You can now get a virtual 64-bit server with 7.5 GB of RAM and 850 GB of storage for $0.40 for hour or a big burrito with 15GB of RAM and 1,690 GB of storage for $0.80 per hour. [...]
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