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

superjared · on Nov 18, 2010

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

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

devspade · on Nov 18, 2010

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.

fgblanch · on Nov 18, 2010

I've just found:

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

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

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

strooltz · on Nov 19, 2010

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...

Rantenki · on Nov 18, 2010

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

koenbok · on Nov 18, 2010

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

fgblanch · on Nov 18, 2010

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

It seems that linode only have monthly plans!

fragmede · on Nov 18, 2010

Surprised no one else has mentioned Heroku and GAE yet.

fgblanch · on Nov 19, 2010

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

spooneybarger · on Nov 18, 2010

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