Comments on: Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-futures-pt-2-commodity-clouds Cloud strategy & infrastructure Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:55:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds | Cloudscaling http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-futures-pt-2-commodity-clouds/comment-page-1#comment-3201 Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds | Cloudscaling Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:16:40 +0000 http://cloudscaling.com/blog/?p=318#comment-3201 [...] you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity [...] [...] you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity [...]

]]> By: Kristoffer Sheather http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-futures-pt-2-commodity-clouds/comment-page-1#comment-3197 Kristoffer Sheather Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:54:06 +0000 http://cloudscaling.com/blog/?p=318#comment-3197 Well, its always nice to be first, in whatever niche you are playing in :)<br><br>From the pricing analysis that I've done, Rackspace Mosso Cloud Servers is one of the cheapest commodity cloud offerings out there today, roughly on par with Amazon EC2. The monthly pricing for a Small EC2 instance is $72 / month, though that only includes ephemeral storage. Add elastic block storage and you are looking at $92 / month. Compare that to the Mosso 2GB instance at $87.60 / month. Mosso data transfers are slightly more expensive for outbound traffic at $0.22/GB compared to EC2 at $0.17/GB, inbound is cheaper though at $0.08/GB compared to EC2 at $0.10/GB. GoGrid is free on the inbound data transfers which is a great idea to get the punters uploading loads of data to make use of their storage service :)<br><br>According to Rackspaces most recent financial results they have over 40,000 customers on their cloud products: <a href="http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1286961&highlight=" rel="nofollow">http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&...</a> Well, its always nice to be first, in whatever niche you are playing in :)

From the pricing analysis that I've done, Rackspace Mosso Cloud Servers is one of the cheapest commodity cloud offerings out there today, roughly on par with Amazon EC2. The monthly pricing for a Small EC2 instance is $72 / month, though that only includes ephemeral storage. Add elastic block storage and you are looking at $92 / month. Compare that to the Mosso 2GB instance at $87.60 / month. Mosso data transfers are slightly more expensive for outbound traffic at $0.22/GB compared to EC2 at $0.17/GB, inbound is cheaper though at $0.08/GB compared to EC2 at $0.10/GB. GoGrid is free on the inbound data transfers which is a great idea to get the punters uploading loads of data to make use of their storage service :)

According to Rackspaces most recent financial results they have over 40,000 customers on their cloud products: http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&...

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