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
GoGrid Storm On Demand |
VPS.net
VMware vCloud provider Dedicated server |
Traditional VPS with Xen
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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| Chose CPU, memory and disk independently | |
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| Configure VMs just like hardware | |||||||||||||
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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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| 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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| Data centre locations | 2x UK, US | 3x US, Ireland, Singapore, Japan | 2x US, UK | |
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| 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
