I've used Rackspace and AWS. I'm pretty happy with AWS and their EC2 offerings these days. There's a lot you can do there, including having load balancing, moving your entire server to a larger instance when you need something beefier, and integrated backups to S2. Something about having an image of your running server you can spin up in seconds is comforting. There are occasional issues; I did some extensive domain-based implementations with them and found some oddities around time sync and Kerberos, but nothing I couldn't work around easily enough. Support is also a bit slow; that's one area where Rackspace really excels. I currently run AWS servers for several clients and we're pretty happy with it. I think overall the self-manageability is more flexible with AWS than Rackspace. I think they're cheaper, too...
*********************** Charlie Kaiser [email protected] Kingman, AZ *********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Blair [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:13 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Anyone recommendations for Cloud server hosting? > > We need to move our cloud server hosting to a new company. We need to run a Windows > 2008 R2 server, with SQL express, 1gb ram, and 10gb disk space. I have looked at a few, > Server Intellect, Rack Space, and Amazon S2. > > > > Any real work experiences? Any other recommendations? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Chris Blair > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
