There are many providers offering free virtual machines, but most of them are cloud providers, DigitalOcean, Atlantic, Nephoscale, Amazon, CloudSigma, etc and the list can continue. Indeed they requir

https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/

There is some Amazon cloud service for encoding files

Might not be much, but maybe a few $/customer. If they can get a couple of thousand customers, with their centralised operation (so ONE lot of tech/support/sales staff are dealing with all their custo

IWStack is not a competitor for Amazon, DO, Microsoft and the like, we are not delusional so we do not intend to use the same advertizing they do, if we have one customer for every 1000 of theirs, tha

Amazon AWS : 12 months free tier

I think neither when I bought a few notebooks in Amazon.com I needed to send my ID copy.

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I would have suggested temporarily sticking some Amazon affiliate ads on it until you build up enough traffic that advertisers will be interested in placing ads on your site, but Amazon doesn't accept

Ubuntu/Debian for desktop usage. Ubuntu started to have privacy-related issues (such as Amazon ads being displayed in certain circumstances in certain versions), so I perhaps will replace it with pure

Acceptable payment options are PayPal, Credit Card via PayPal, Payza, Amazon Simple Pay, Check/Money Order (US Funds drawn on US Bank)

At some point it's inevitable that all hosts and websites will have a problem...if your name is Amazon.com or Amazon Payments that point is right now...crash! http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-

EV SSL Protected Shopping Cart, Accept Credit Cards, Paypal, 2 Checkout, and Amazon Checkout

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I guess Amazon might be my only decent option still. I hate their interface. A lot of things that should be easy are made way too complicated.

@sman Because there's already Amazon? Nobody wants to compete with them in that space.

Why isn't anyone doing what CloudVPS is doing in N. America? Besides Amazon of course.

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CloudVPS appears to be offering a VPS that does it at 10euros a month + Object store pricing which looks similar to Amazon S3. I don't need much storage. So doesn't seem that exotic to me. Or is Cl

This is what I see from that Amazon AWS document.