Cloud computing is still relevant for use in small businesses and personal use. In this article I will try the premier provider of cloud computing services and to highlight briefly the advantages and disadvantages of each


Amazon EC2



Great service. It seems a bit ‘expensive for personal use at a glance. Seems cheaper solution (1.7 GB RAM memory, 160 GB hard drive, 1-1,2 GHz Xeon) of $ 75 a month, depending on traffic. If you compare the prices of VPS services in the medium and upper power range EC2 looks very interesting.

Advantages over ordinary VPS Services:

Great choice of operating systems and software “Also nginx, PHP a plus.” With great features such as Another important option is to create a special version just software and settings.
Almost immediately, creating and implementing server.
Storage flexibility and adaptation capacity. All preference settings in a separate file
Useful for testing and rapid control. Configuring the server takes only a few minutes – then you will be able to test the configuration you want to leave a day after I paid about $ first is not cool?
More RAM memory, hard drives and CPU


Cons:
Uncertainty of data storage on the local server storage. Server shutdown, hardware or software errors cause data loss. To avoid – to mode S3 (Simple Storage Service) so or insert your memory. This problem can be solved with Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
The speed and performance of local memory and EBS are not transparent. Moreover, it is easy to understand the factors that affect stability.

Rackspace

Rackspace Cloud hosting service offers the use of cloud computing technology. In a nutshell, it is possible based on a server hosting network, which means that Rackspace can scale much more flexible, which means access VPS services are distributed. It can be compared to Amazon, but it can be considered a good alternative.

Benefits: The performance is very good and reliable, fast FTP seems to be more than 100Mbps. Static pages and DB connection is also very fast.
Management and control servers are well thought out and well designed.
Rackspace support staff known for their responsive support.

Cons:
Price
Rate list the availability of domain (if you have multiple domains)
If no wildcard SSL certificates