Ask HN: Apart from Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Joyent any other cloud provider?

7 points·fgblanch··10 comments

I have used Amazon EC2 and Rackspace (Joyent not yet) , but I'm looking for some other Iaas (Infrastructure as a service) providers any ideas?

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Storm On Demand has a pretty cool offering with decent prices. They even have a "bare metal cloud".

http://www.stormondemand.com/cloud-hosting/

My company used GoGrid prior to me getting here. The anecdotal reviews were very very bad. That being said I've never used them and it was 18 months + ago so maybe they are better now.

We use EC2 almost exclusively but do run some instances on Terremark (http://www.terremark.com/services/cloudcomputing.aspx) just because we had some issues a while back where EC2 wasn't letting us create new instances for like a week and we wanted to have some insurance.

I've just found:

- Microsoft azure http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/compute/default.aspx

- SoftLayer http://www.softlayer.com/

- NewServer http://www.newservers.com/

EngineYard - http://engineyard.com. they're built on top of EC2 and a little pricey but their support/service is incredible and they make it a breeze to deploy...

http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud in Sweden, presumably safer against DMCA etc.

http://www.linode.com/index.cfm is pretty good.

I knew about this one but we are looking for cpu/hour service.

It seems that linode only have monthly plans!

Surprised no one else has mentioned Heroku and GAE yet.

They are not Infrastructure as a server providers. They provide platforms to deploy applications

there is http://www.gogrid.com/ but i don't personally have any experience using them.

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