ElasticHosts offers you the ability to choose CPU, memory and disk independently; friendly email and phone support as standard; and a range of other competitive advantages.
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Amazon EC2
Rackspace 1&1 |
FlexiScale
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VPS.net
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Traditional VPS with Virtuozzo VPS with VMware ESXi |
| ElasticHosts | 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 | |||||||||||||
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| Fully flexible server sizing | |||||||||||||
| Chose CPU, memory and disk independently | ![]() |
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| Scalability | |||||||||||||
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| Billing | |||||||||||||
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| Configure VMs just like hardware | |||||||||||||
| Full root/administrator access | ![]() |
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| True static IPs | ![]() |
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| All storage persistent | ![]() |
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| VNC console during boot | ![]() |
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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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| Additional services | |||||||||||||
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| Migration options | |||||||||||||
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| Upload and download ISOs and disk images | ![]() |
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| Technology | |||||||||||||
| 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, US | 3x US, Ireland, Singapore, Japan | 2x US, UK | ![]() |
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| Support | |||||||||||||
| Friendly, expert phone and e-mail support as standard | ![]() |
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| SLA | |||||||||||||
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Correct at time of writing, 6 July 2011



