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StormOnDemand Cloud Hosting Review

Thursday, July 1st, 2010
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Overview:
Traditional web servers take hours to setup and place online. With Storm On Demand cloud servers, you can deploy a new server in minutes. Add additional servers and remove them as often as needed and only pay for what you use. If you need to increase your disk space or even add a new server? With Storm On Deman, scalability is in your hands. Increase or decrease your capacity as needed in minutes. Provisioning a new web front end is now as easy as copy and paste! Storm on Demand’s proprietary Cloud Server technology provides powerful and flexible on-demand hosting infrastructure for deploying applications of all sizes.

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Features:

  • Load balance traffic across Cloud Server & Storm Bare Metal Dedicated Servers
  • Load Balancer SSL Termination & Session Persistence for proper source logging & security handling.
  • Redundant fault tolerant enterprise class Load Balancer Hardware with Multiple Gigabits of Connectivity
  • Multiple Load Balancing Methods including: Round Robin, Least Connect & Historical Intelligence
  • Storm On Demand includes a powerful API that allows programmatic access to control and manage all aspects of your cloud servers.

Summary:
If the popularity of your web application increases, you’ll need to upgrade the hardware on your Dedicated Server. With a traditional server, that involves down time and data center staff who physically have to upgrade your server. Storm Servers are different because resources can be upgraded and downgraded on the fly. Scaling your server is now simpler than ever; you can add RAM, Disk Space and Bandwidth,with a few clicks. Storm Servers feel like a traditional server, but have all the benefits of a cloud hosting environment. Available software includes: Debian, CentOS, ubuntu, Fantastico DeLuxo, and C-Panel.

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Reliability and Uptime:
99.999% uptime guarantee

Customer Support:
Storm is fully supported by in-house data center experts. You can be confident that help is only a phone call away, night or day. StormOnDemand cloud hosting manages and monitors the network, hardware, backups and the virtualization layer. You get full control of your server.

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Choose a Server Size and OS Image
SERVER SIZE IS DETERMINED BY MEMORY ALLOCATION
Select Bandwidth and Backup Options
OPTIONS INCLUDE PAY-AS-YOU-GO, OR BUNDLED SERVICES
Launch your Storm Server
IN JUST MINUTES, YOUR NEW SERVER WILL BE ONLINE
  • Starting at $0.07/hour.

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PEER 1 Cloud Hosting Review

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
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Overview:
PEER 1 has developed a next-generation cloud, on-demand or SaaS enabling application. CloudXcelerator and CloudOne are the two main PEER 1 Cloud hosting solutions offered.  Although they are not cloud hosting, they are cloud storage.

Features:

  • Pay As You Grow
  • Free Bandwidth On Our SuperNetwork™
  • Unlimited Free Customer Support
  • Control Your Data And Storage Costs
  • Store Data Copies In Multiple Data Centers
  • Best-in-breed Partner EMC Atmos
  • Large Existing Atmos Ecosystem And API
  • Scalable, Reliable And Easy To Administer

Summary:
Starting at just 15¢/GB/Month, CloudOne Storage provides redundant online storage for your files and rich media. Built on the best-in-breed EMC Atmos storage platform, you’ll enjoy unprecedented scalability, reliability and ease of use. You can upload, store and manage as many files as you like through the API and track usage, costs, and user credentials through our user friendly control panel. You can also tap into the large Atmos development community for even more great applications.

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Reliability and Uptime:
SAS 70 Type I certified for Managed Hosting. This means that PEER One Cloud Hosting has undertaken an independent and in-depth audit of our control objectives and control activities, including controls over information technology and related processes. They’re also a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, Red Hat® Advanced Hosting Partner, SafeHarbor® certified, and a proud member of the Green Grid.  They also have 100% Power SLA and 100% Network Uptime SLA.

Customer Support:
24x7x365 NOC Support. PEER One cloud hosting gives you one of the fastest and brightest Network Operation Centers (NOCs) in the business who are committed to first call resolution. No need to bombard support with helpdesk tickets, we take care of you on your first call. In most cases, your issue will be resolved within minutes, allowing you to get back to more important things. Our NOC monitors the network 24x7x365, while our engineers and data center personnel keep our facilities running smoothly. You also have around-the-clock access to phone and online support.

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The Planet Cloud Hosting Review

Thursday, May 27th, 2010
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Overview:
The Planet Server Cloud is is built on a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization platform, directly integrated into the mainline Linux kernel. It offers multiple benefits compared with legacy virtualization technologies like XEN:

  • The open-source platform everybody loves: Backed by the Linux Foundation and the top Linux distributions, including Red Hat and Canonical.
  • High-performance, feature-rich platform: KVM supports the latest in virtualization technologies, including live migration, RAM de-duplication, para-virtualized storage and network capabilities.
  • Interoperable and portable to physical servers: No operating system guest modifications are required by KVM, which makes it a great platform for a truly portable hybrid hosting infrastructure.
  • More up-to-date technologies: As part of the mainline kernel, KVM offers direct access to all Linux updates and security patches as they’re released.

Features:
On-demand virtual servers designed for high availability and dependable performance.

  • Dedicated resources guarantee performance
  • Redundant highly available storage protects data
  • Full root and kernel access provide control and security

Summary:
The Planet Server Cloud provides the consistent high-performance and dedicated resources missing in other virtual server offerings, backed by its powerful infrastructure: Sun Storage Area Networks, Intel Nehalem processors, a Cisco- and Juniper-powered network, and Dell servers.

Reliability and Uptime:
The Planet manages over 180,000 square feet of raised floor data center across eight facilities in Houston, Dallas and London.

  • The Planet secure data centers are monitored 24×7 to ensure your servers are always safe
  • Customers can be confident with our N+1 power generator architecture
  • The Planetfeature N+2 redundant data center HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) systems
  • Advanced fire suppression systems ensure  any fires are localized
  • Preventive maintenance, performed regularly by our own highly trained personnel, meets or exceeds manufacturers recommended practices.
  • The Planet is a member of the Uptime Institute, a prestigious knowledge consortium where global standards and best practices are created and delivered to maintain system uptime and availability

Customer Support:
24x7x365 support

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