Many choices now for a decent Cloud servers in USA:
- Rackspace Cloud Servers - http://ww.rackspacecloud.com
- Amazon Web Services – http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
- Microsoft Windows Azure – http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure
- SoftLayer Cloud Server - http://www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer
- VCloudExpress - http://vcloudexpress.terremark.com
- GoGrid Cloud Hosting – http://www.gogrid.com
- FlexScale Utility Computing – http://www.flexiscale.com
- Cloud Hosting – http://www.elastichosts.com
- VPS Virtual Cloud server – http://www.vps.net
And our best choice is: Rackspace Cloud!
Many reasons why RackSpaceCloud.com is the most popular Cloud Service in USA:
- Super low price – the smallest instance is as low as 0.015 USD per hour only! Or $10.95 USD per month. You can get a rock stable 256M RAM, 10G Disk, 1G CPU resource Linux system with this price, plus a free dedicated public static IP address. It’s good enough to run MySQL+PHP+Nginx for WordPress Blogs, VOIP softswitch, Web hosting system, or online shopping cart etc.
- Highest Reliability – With Rackspace’s own Cloud technology ( now they opened the source code at openstack.org web site ), easily end users can get 99.999% SLA for its up time guarantee. By utilizing the redundancy and network balance technology, mostly users won’t experience any single down time for several continuous months. It’s pretty amazing considering the mini system costs only 10 bucks!
- Super flexibility – When needed, Rackspace Cloud system can grow up smoothly from tiny system to monster big system in just couple of clicks! And of course you can shrink back to small size easily when your business peak time moment is gone. That’s the the beauty of cloud computing!
- Easy backup and duplication – Remember the decade Network Administrators using the Ghost to backup each servers and computers just in case they got crashed? The nightmare is OVER! Through Cloud storage coming from Cloud service, customers can easily backup the WHOLE operation system into network storage at just one or two USD per month! There are even having options to auto backup the whole systems automatically every day! Want to start a new system with same configurations? Just duplicate it.