Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is where I got the $65 number from, which is an entirely
dedicated and virtualized OS hosted on a shared machine:
http://www.hosting.com/services/platform-services/cloud

And if you don't need an entire virtual OS then you can go with
DreamHost at $8.95/month: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

I have yet to use Amazon EC2 but have used their S3 service for awhile
now (about 2yrs I think) and like it alot (mostly just to backup about
70GB of data).

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
> > would probably lose money on that tier ...
>
>
> Well, that doesn't sound very reasonable.  How did you come up with $65/month?
>  I think a micro partition at www.rackspace.com runs $150/month, to start.  A
> 10-20GB database under Microsoft Azure runs $200/month, to start.
>
> Pricing for Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine are so goofy that I wasn't able to
> figure them out. Actually, it has been hard for me to compare pricing because
> it's hard to know what you're getting under Windows, Linux, and other platforms.
>
> I think the dynamic changes when you move from a discussion about a development
> server to a discussion of a deployment server.  Force.com Enterprise allows you
> to deploy up to 10 applications at $50/month/user.  I don't think pricing like
> that would fly in the K-12 software market where you're deploying applications
> for teachers, parents, and students.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>
>
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