GigPark

Amazon EC2 hosting serviceVirtual server hosting

I'm not the expert in this stuff but Paul Dowman, GigPark's Director of Technology, knows what he's talking about ...

Here's his recommendation: www.gigpark.com/recommendations/r0400805

And his 2 cents ...
EC2 provides "resizable compute capacity in the cloud". That means virtual servers (for web hosting or anything else), but what makes EC2 different from most other hosting services is that you can change the number of running servers within minutes, either manually or automatically.

It's perfect for startups because they charge based on the amount of capacity consumed hourly, so you can increase and decrease your available resources as much as you like and never pay for unused capacity.

There are also pre-configured server images available (including mine: http://ec2onrails.rubyforge.org/ ) which reduce the amount of time you need to spend configuring servers from scratch.

There are many hosting services, but I recommend EC2 for anyone who's looking for more than just cheap shared hosting.

Seattle, United States, recommended 7 months ago, viewed 121 times