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Amazon EC2 vs Rackspace Cloud vs Linode
Cost, Features and Support
by Joseph Montanez
There are many companies that provide hosting and cloud services.
Below are the large providers of cloud hosting and
comparison of their services:
| Amazon EC2 |
Rackspace Cloud |
Linode | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical Support |
$49 Monthly ($100+ for Phone) | Free (Includes Phone Support) | $100 Monthly (No Phone Support) |
| Setup Help | $15,000 Monthly | $100 Monthly Managed | N/A Online Documentation |
| Uptime | 99.95% | 99.90% | 99.90% |
| Database Scalability | Master / Slave Replication | Single Instance | None |
| Database Backup |
YES |
NO | N/A |
| Web Server Scalability | Horizontal Auto Scaling | Horizontal Auto Scaling | Vertical Scaling |
| CPU Scalability |
1 - 32 Processors | 1 - 8 Processors | 8 Processors |
| RAM Scalability | 630 MB - 244 GB | 512 MB - 30 GB | 1 GB - 40 GB |
| Storage Scalability | 1 GB - 1 TB | 20 GB - 1.2 TB | 24 GB - 960 GB |
| Bandwidth Scalability | 10 Gigabits | 1 Gigabit | 50 Megabits(2) |
| Security |  |
|
NO |
| Web and Files Backup | |
|
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| Pricing per GB Bandwith | $0.12/GB (First 15 GB Free) | $0.12/GB (No Free Start) | $0.10/GB (First 2 TB - 20 TB Free) |
| Pricing per GB Storage | $0.095/GB | $0.100/GB | $0.120/GB |
| Pricing per Processor | $82 (1 of 32) | $110 (1 of 8) | $3 (1 of 8)(3) |
| Pricing of First 1GB RAM (MIN) | $45 (1.7 GB) | $44 (1.0 GB) | $20 (1.0 GB) |
| Pricing per 1GB RAM (MAX) | $11 (1.0 GB of 244 GB) | $29 (1.0 GB of 30 GB) | $20 (1.0 GB of 40 GB) |
| Restoration from a Backup |
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| Block Storage | |
|
NO |
| Reserved Instances | |
NO | NO |
| Globalization | |
|
|
| Data Centers | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Managed Cloud Server | NO | |
|
| API | |
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| Load Balancer | |
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| DNS | |
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| Auto Scaling | Elastic Beanstalk | Cloud Sites | Unavailable |
| Mobile App Control Panel |
NO(4) | |
|
| Control Panel |
Complex | Clean & Simple | Complex |
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(1) Above research was completed on June 2013; Pricing, Hardware, SLAs, ratings and other data may not be accurate and may have changed. (2) Linode uses bandwidth limit (cap) to prevent network abuse. They require submitting a ticket to request higher bandwidth. (3) Linode will always provide a Quad Core Hyper Threaded CPU (8 Processors) at any price level, but each node level is prioritized. (4) Amazon has serveral mobile applications to manage their services but they are built by customers: (Customer App). |
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