Comments on: Virtual Servers: the Battle is Joined http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/28/virtual-servers-the-battle-is-joined/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:06:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Andrew http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/28/virtual-servers-the-battle-is-joined/#comment-293662 Andrew Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:26:28 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2206#comment-293662 The virtual scene is really heating up - Mosso has some serious competition. One major provider you forgot to list is Engine Yard - they do a specialized rails hosting platform which is very much robust. That being said, the Virtuals make it really easy to make a machine for a task - run it for a week and then close it down when it's no longer necessary. It's making short term CPU intensive tasks a lot easier without incurring the expense of a hardware farm. The virtual scene is really heating up – Mosso has some serious competition. One major provider you forgot to list is Engine Yard – they do a specialized rails hosting platform which is very much robust.

That being said, the Virtuals make it really easy to make a machine for a task – run it for a week and then close it down when it’s no longer necessary. It’s making short term CPU intensive tasks a lot easier without incurring the expense of a hardware farm.

]]> By: Aaron Bailey http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/28/virtual-servers-the-battle-is-joined/#comment-293646 Aaron Bailey Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:56:10 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2206#comment-293646 This article is slightly confusing on the Nirvanix point. You can't "run that server" on Amazon S3 (that'd be EC2) nor does Nirvanix allow you to "upload their virtualized servers to Nirvanix's network." Both Nirvanix and Amazon S3 are storage engines (videos, images, large files) and can't serve applications. This article is slightly confusing on the Nirvanix point. You can’t “run that server” on Amazon S3 (that’d be EC2) nor does Nirvanix allow you to “upload their virtualized servers to Nirvanix’s network.” Both Nirvanix and Amazon S3 are storage engines (videos, images, large files) and can’t serve applications.

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