ElasticHosts virtual servers come in sizes to suit all businesses, from a basic, but fully capable server from £29 per month to high-end configurations with up to eight cores, 5 GB memory, 2 TB disk.

Our virtual servers are tailored for web hosting, unlike Amazon EC2, which is a less targeted virtualization solution.

Feature Description ElasticHosts Amazon EC2
Basic virtualization Run multiple virtual servers on physical hardware. Y Y
Free choice of operating systems Run any operating system designed for PC hardware and any software on your virtual server. Y N
(Linux only)
Fully flexible sizing Resize your server, changing your processor, memory, disk or bandwidth on demand to fit your current capacity needs. Y N
(only 5: small, large, extra large, high-cpu medium, high-cpu extra large)
Easy-to-use web hosting services Benefit from a full suite of accompanying services that you need to build your web application (e.g. domain registration, DNS), all managed from any web browser. Y N
Automatic redundancy and failover Rely on automatic reboot of your virtual server in the unlikely event that it terminates due to software or hardware failure, together with RAID 6 redundant storage of your data, without the need to explicitly store to S3. Y N

Correct at time of writing, 22 May 2008