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Elastichosts are pioneers in the cloud hosting world with their Cloud Servers service. We offer you the ability to choose CPU, memory and disk size independently, and scale your servers instantly. See how Elastichosts compares with other cloud IaaS providers.
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| Amazon EC2 | Rackspace Cloud Servers | 1&1 | FlexiScale | GoGrid | Storm On Demand | VPS.net | VMware vCloud provider | Dedicated server | Traditional VPS powered by Xen | Traditional VPS powered by Parallels Virtuozzo | VPS powered by VMware ESXi | ||
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| END-USER FUNCTIONALITY | |||||||||||||
| Easy-to-use self-service web control panel |  |
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| Choose CPU, memory and disk independently | |
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| SCALABILITY | |||||||||||||
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| CONFIGURE VMS JUST LIKE HARDWARE | |||||||||||||
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| All storage persistent | |
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| Upload and mount ISOs | |
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| RUN ANY X86 OPERATING SYSTEM | |||||||||||||
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| Use your own install media | |
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| Use your own Windows licence keys (or ours) | |
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| Upload and download ISOs and disk images | |
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| Hypervisor | KVM | Xen | Xen | Xen | Xen | Xen | Xen | Xen | VMWare | n/a | Xen | Virtuozzo | VMWare |
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| Clean, simple API | |
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| LOCATIONS | |||||||||||||
| Data centre locations | 2x UK, 3x US, Canada, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Sydney | 3x US, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, Sydney, Sao Paulo | 2x US, UK | |
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| SUPPORT | |||||||||||||
| Friendly, expert phone and e-mail support as standard | |
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| 100% SLA with 100x downtime credits | |
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Correct at time of writing, 6 July 2011
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sales@elastichosts.com