Web Infrastructure on Cloud

Hey Developers out there, if you are searching for a reliable server to host your applications. Here is a small help for all of you.

1. Cloudbees
2. Jelastic
3. Redhat openshift
4. Google Appengine
5. Amazon EC2

The importance of using a hosting service is that you don't have to worry about managing servers and resources. These hosting services provide autoscaling to your services, of-course there is some cost involved but at-least your services are up and running at all times without any type of congestion.

One can choose on variety of platforms like unix, windows or linux. You can choose if you need any relational DB. Generally My-SQL is present with all the vendors. Amount of disk space, max RAM utilization can be chosen but are generally based on pricing slot selected.

Well established services like redhat openshift, google appengine and amazon ec2, which are the pioneers of the cloud services guarantees 99.999% uptime.

Pricing:
Presence of small as well as big players in the market has led enormous competition. The prices are competitive. Prices are based on amount of computing power utilized by the application. The prices are as low as $0.0139 for small applications and as large as $1.477 per hour for high I/O instances on Amazon EC2.

Some other local services might provide you more competitive pricing yet they might have a lot of hidden charges, also they will not be able to provide you with a guaranteed 99.999% uptime.


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