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 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! > > -- > Vimal Shah, VP of Engineering > Sokikom > Office: (480) 788-1849 > Mobile: (480) 752-9269 > Email: vimals@sokikom.com > Web: www.sokikom.com > > Follow us: twitter.com/sokikom > Like us: facebook.com/sokikom > -- Sent from my mobile device --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss