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This.
This one explains it nicely
http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/cloud-computing
No it doesn't.
Digital Ocean API does this.
Digital Ocean and AWS do this exactly the same with bundled packages.
Digital Ocean and AWS do this exactly the same as per hour or per month billing.
As you see the article can't describe the differences and can only point some features of many.
Only the companies can tell their differences offered as every company handles things differently. Some offer X feature, some don't. And none of them classifieds them as cloud or not.
As I said, there is no scientific definition for cloud hosting.
No useful information here. Move along.
Agree with @serverian. Cloud is a marketing term and means different things to different people depending on feature set required.
For some, it's all about scaling and being to fire up and destroy instances quickly and resize those that are all running (preferably through a full featured API)
For others its about HA and redundancy
To others, its about having a sky looking website, a quick signup process and selling people easy to manage VPS products.
Why are videos from these companies always cheesy?
Doesnt the mothership always get destroyed in the end? XD
Not sure why anyone would want to get in to this nowdays, seems like a great way to lose money.
Compute pricing seems competitive, but HD storage at $0.15/GB can't compare to AWS's $0.05/GB. Still, no charge for IO so that's a plus.
These new providers have one thing right: their billing model. It's convenient to be able to put $10 into account credit and create/destroy VMs on an as-needed basis, especially when evaluating the provider.
Aside from SAN storage, it'd be nice to see more providers implement private networking; I'm not sure why it's not a more common feature.
Still waiting for a cloud provider willing to announce own IP space or assign larger nets than stupid /29s... seems to be just impossible.
That video is awful.
Every provider with own structure can announce customer block. Just contact them directly, some charge it, some not, but most with own structure will do it.
It's just because mothership.com already registered. LOL
Although its registered, adding '1' will help ?? I don't think so. Please clarify if it adds some meaning here
Got email from them today"To begin using our service, we require you to upload a minimum credit of $50USD to your account."I think i will pass for now when they will launch actual service then i will try.
What kinda name is mothership1 lol
I got that email too, which really disappoints me. I just want to test out their services and see if it's up to par.
just deposit your 50usd to vultr, and you'll get extra 50 credits with them. More worth!
I guess their mothership has lost contact with the mother planet earth. They are heading to another planet now.
Yes vultr is good i already have account with them.Hourly billing rocks.Anyway i am not going to deposit $50 on this mothercloud since they are on their beta stage i am not going to take risk with this new company.
Original email from them yesterday:
I replied how I was a developer as an individual with corporation ties. Told them my intended uses as so. Received this just now:
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I'll let you know how things go.
Hi, we have updated our value proposition page to explain you better what Mothership1 wants to bring differently compared to other cloud providers. See the table at the bottom of that page.
Of course some things are similar as other providers, like most run on SSDs and some things we don`t do as well (yet). Most unique features are: Virtual machines are by default private & protected on private LAN, the integrated enterprise capable virtual firewall/router/VPN, new server deployment in less 5 seconds, snapshots in a matter of just seconds, immediate rollbacks and faster start and stop.
Would you consider smaller amounts as account credit? I'd like to test it out, however throwing 50$ at something that I might or might not use is a little bit meh.
All SSDs are PRO SSDs in RAID 1
Yes. We do this now because of high demands. Please signup and reply to the questionnaire in the response e-mail and include as well the question of this forum. Customer support is flexible on people that want to provide feedback and help us to continually improve our offering.
I like your site a lot! I'm sure it's planned, but it may improve readability a bit if you re-organize your colophon, contact and privacy policy pages.
I'm wondering what locations you plan to offer in the near future; I'd try your service but unfortunately all of your locations appear to be east-coast.
Bracknell (UK) is next on the list, after that we will expand to one or more of our other data centers: Rochester, NY (USA), Buffalo, NY (USA), Mississauga, ON (Canada) and Hong Kong.
@mothership1 Did you deliberately join the 'Cloud services with ridiculous names' club, or was it happy coincidence?
We're "GoodHosting" , so I guess we can't join the club .
I'm going to go sulk on WHT now.