Amazon vs Linode

[Bryan O'Neal]

It all depends on your desired service level vs desired expense rate
vs brain trust. I would probably set up a private cloud on a commodity
hosting provider for less than a hundred a month but what you have
expressed can also be done with any solution you want.

On 4/20/11, Vimal Shah <vimals at sokikom.com> wrote:
> Hello PLUG,
>
> It was a pleasure meeting some of you the other day at Pita Jungle.
>
> Our application uses Flash and is database heavy. We are currently trying to
> decide which cloud hosting provider to go with, Amazon or Linode. This link
> does a great comparison.
> http://www.slideshare.net/mpeters/cloud-hosting-survey
>
> The state of our company:
>
> -Our Linux/Sys Admin knowledge is limited and rudimentary
> -Since our launch we've had over 2000 students join and the user base is
> growing daily.
> -Software development has 3 server environments; development, stage and
> live.
> -Linode offers multiple IPs per server,  Amazon has 1 IP per server
>   > Multiple IP made it easy to add SSL certs to multiple environments
> - Currently dev and stage are on Linode
> - Currently live is on Amazon.
>
> Do we move from Amazon to Linode or from Linode to Amazon? Which one will
> provide the scaling we need?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
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