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What is a "Cloud Provider"?

Sorry if this is the wrong S/E for this type of question. Well, I am asking what is a "Cloud Provider"? Is it just a hosting site? Is it something special? I know that the "Cloud" means internet, ...
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Building Cloud WebHosting using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud OS

Currently I run a few CentOS dedicated boxes on which I run a few hosted applications (these are online). It currently caters to a little over 200 clients. For the sake of scalability as this is going ...
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Are there alternatives to Ubuntu Private Cloud?

In particular, alternatives that: Do NOT use VMs Provide small host OS image size (in reply to Steven Xu's comment) Ubuntu Private Cloud features: Linux based Provides web administration (AFAIK) ...
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WHats the difference between MediaTemples Grid Server hosting and RackSPaces Cloud Server?

I'm having huge issues with media temple. I have a grid hosting account signed up on media temple currently but am absolutely not ahppy at all with the services. To start with I've been getting too ...
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EC2 vs VPS for hosting [closed]

I started out with Amazon EC2 as a monthly host for my project. I am running a 'small' Windows 2k8 instance with SQL server. This is the HW that I am getting: 1.7 GB memory 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 ...
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How to measure cloud incoming and outgoing bandwidth?

I am renting a Rackspace cloud instance now and I want to measure the incoming and outgoing bandwidth. When a normal request comes for a page - what is the bandwidth consumed and when a normal page ...
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Cloud based server for PHP

I plan to open a subscription based website that will be video and image heavy. I have the video and image hosting sorted using Amazons S3 and CDN. now, I will still need a main server to host php/...
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Hosting providers who can do mix of virtual and physical [closed]

Looking for some suggestions on hosting providers who can provide: Mixture of physical systems built to our specifications, as well as a virtual "cloud" service that allows dynamic growth and on ...
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Vmware / vmdk / virtual machine hosting providers? [closed]

I'm new to cloud/virtual hosting and having a difficult time finding much useful information on google about this question. Are there any reputable hosting providers out there, aside from hosting.com,...
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what cloud platform should I use for my rails app?

I was reviewing the platforms Heroku = I am a beginner but heroku hides a lot of details i want to learn. so i dont want to user heroku Linode Amazon EC2 which is one better. I dont want to spend ...
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Are there any hosting providers or cloud computing providers providing services with IPv6? [closed]

You hear a lot of talk about IPv6, but I have yet to see it in the wild. Are there any hosting providers or cloud computing providers that offer services that use IPv6? I'm not looking for something ...
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cloud hosting with ability to mount in unix platform

as the title states...i would like to push the images of my gallery to the cloud...but i need to have access to them through the filesystem rather than an API. Can anybody recommend any good ...
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Is cloud hosting, computing, server etcetra a buzz phrase?

I want an unbiased approach towards cloud term that is being hyped today. Is this really a new term, new dimension or is it just a buzz phrase to re-market existing technologies. Personally I think ...
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Best Linux distribution in Rackspace for Java applications

When choosing a Linux distribution available in Rackspace to host a Java application running on Tomcat (or JBoss) and accessing a MySQL database, what do you take into account? For me it seems more a ...
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Is using cloud files worth it? (Or any cdn?)

A little about my website: The front page needs to load fast, and it has a background image The website is an online store with lots of product images How much would it help alleviate the server of ...
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Install Package dependencies separately over Cloud

Install Package dependencies separately over Cloud Hi all, I am working on a project that sets up packages on the cloud. For example, If i want to setup Drupal, i need seperate machines to maintain ...
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Confused about cloud hosting? Cloud server... 3 Dedicated or 1 Cloud? Which is the way to go?

I've finished programming an entire social network to replace an old one with already 60,000 users, (well after 6 years),but it has 100-300 users on-line at some times. I was going to start putting ...
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How do I setup a site-to-site VPN between two Windows 2008 servers?

We have a Windows 2008 server that we want to move offsite to the cloud (we're using Rackspace). It has to talk to our Active Directory domain constantly, so we need a stable site-to-site VPN between ...
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Advice on keeping cloud server secure? (linux)

I'm able to take a basic linux distro (stable Ubuntu Server) and install everything I need to get my web apps up and running. (Django, Rails, PHP etc...) But after all of that I would appreciate some ...
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Windows 7 or Windows Vista in the cloud

Hi I am looking for a cloud-based solution that offers Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP to be served in the cloud using VNC or a similar remote desktop. Does such an offering exist? Is there ...
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High CPU performance on a cloud hosting platform

We need a cloud hosting platform that provides high CPU throughput for a very specific high-CPU utilization application we have. Can anyone recommend a cloud hosting platform whose virtual instances ...
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Features to identify a true cloud host

I'm reading around to understand cloud computing, and I saw 2 comments that prompted this question: "Cloud" is a marketing term. The actual implementation is what really matters. If you can get ...
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Rails Hosting - Is RailsPlayground.com a Good Host? [closed]

My team is currently looking into hosting for RoR apps, and we're considering RailsPlayground, Linode and SliceHost. We haven't found anyone recommending rails playground, and web of trust seems to ...
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Which one to go Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting?

We are going to outsource a solution from the data-center (for some reason), it is a web solution built on .NET and SQL server and it has scheduled night services. I searched for Cloud Hosting (IaaS) ...
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VPS Providers With Instance APIs

My company is trying to find a list of VPS / cloud providers who offer an instance API to create new instances, tear down old instances, and get new IPs / etc. We're trying to make our platform ...
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What is the cheapest non-colocation way to serve about 10 static files at a rate of 100 megabits per second to the web? [closed]

I've looked at Amazon S3 and it costs roughly $4746 per month for 100 megabits/s (which translates into 31,640 Gigabytes of data transferred. That's at a rate of $0.15 per gig.) I haven't found a ...
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How much does 24 hours of a large instance on ec2 cost? [closed]

I'm trying to get a gist of how much a large ec2 instant ( 64bit 4GB RAM ) would cost, without the bandwidth & incoming/outgoing requests. If i were to start an instant and keep it running for a ...
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How to move from a physical server to an online server?

My father has a small company: 10 PCs running Windows, 1 running Windows Server 2000 and 1 Fax/Printer. I want to remove the server and make the network based on an Online server. Can I do that? If ...
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Cloud Providers that support FreeBSD? [closed]

NOTE: Even though I've accepted an answer for this, if you have a better one, please put it below. Thanks! I'm looking for recommendations from the wise and all-knowing Server Fault community on ...
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About to go live: virtual dedicated server or cloud?

I am about to launch my startup company, and we will be going live in a few weeks time. We have really tight budgetary constraints, since we are bootstrapping - and would prefer not to raise external ...
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Is it possible to guarantee 100% uptime in redundant hosting servers inside a cloud computing structure?

I'm interested in find a hosting that can offer really 100% of uptime. Is it possible in hosting servers inside a cloud computing structure?
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Distinction between Cloud Servers and VPS

What is the distinction between a Cloud based host and a VPS? I talked to a Rackspace Cloud sales person for around 45 minutes and never came to a real conclusion on this. So, to elaborate on my ...
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amazon cloud vs rackspace cloud [closed]

I'm looking to take a dedicated server - in the process I read about Amazon Cloud computing & Rackspace Cloud Servers. Now I'm not sure which one to opt? Could somebody suggest - Performance &...
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Rackspace Cloud Sites: Compute Cycles exploding. Very expensive

Since last week my compute cycles (CC) went through the roof (Rackspace Cloud Sites). Normally I stay under the 10,000 cycles per month . Now this month I already have more than 75,000 compute cycles. ...
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Benchmark of provisionning delays of various cloud providers

Cloud computing supposedly lets you instantiate on-demand processing power through additional VMs. The allocation process is frequently advertised as fast without further details. My personal ...
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VPS vs Amazon for webhosting

We re looking at moving from our self-serviced, slightly fragile production system to a VPS provider or a cloud hosting serice like Amazon. Here is a list of technologies we currently use: Grails ...
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Chroot within chroot

I'm using Centos 5.2 and when I try to make a chroot jail using the script, I get: Copying libraries for /usr/bin/scp. (0x00007fff17bfe000) cp: cannot stat `(0x00007fff17bfe000)': No such file or ...
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"Mount" cloudfiles on a Linux server?

Is it possible to 'mount', for ignorance of a better term, a cloud service like as Cloud Files or S3 to a linux / ubuntu server? Ideally I'd like to be able to browse the remote location as if it ...
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I need a relatively cheap host, which will be able to handle sudden peaks in traffic? [closed]

We're launching a product in a few months, which will obviously have a website. Judging from our current traffic, we believe that overall traffic will probably not be that much, but we are aiming at ...
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Suggestions for iPhone game server hosting [closed]

I'm working on an iPhone application which requires a server component. The game would interact with the server using JSON and would essentially be a CRUD interface to a database backend. I don't ...
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Where should I go with hosting my site: VPS, GAE, another option?

My website, http://JonathansCorner.com/, began life before 1994 as www.imsa.edu/~jhayward/ and has been through various iterations and improvements to content, HTML, and the like, but remains a ...
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Comparison of cloud hosting providers [closed]

Is there a place where we can compare* the many new arising cloud hosting providers? From reading into each of them, they seem very different and range from just hosting applications (google) to a ...
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Understanding: cloud-server, cloud-hosting, cloud-computing, the cloud [closed]

There's a lot of buzz about these subjects and there seems little consensus on the terms. Is that just me not understanding the subject, or is there a clear meaning for each of these terms? Are there ...

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