Comments on: Cloud Hosting/Storage Toolbox: Options & Tools

By: sem

sem — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:53:01 +0000

I heard the Amazon S3 is a great tool to utilize. I have not really expanded out and tried any new cloud hosting tools. I think this might be the first one I try.

By: Umut M.

Umut M. — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:29:21 +0000

@remote access software,

S3 works just like a drive(that can be reached via API) with no capacity limits and no servers are created there.

EC2, yes, it is the service to create servers.

By: remote access software

remote access software — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:12:15 +0000

Can amazon simple storage let me add new servers, or only the elastic?

By: remote control software

remote control software — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:19:34 +0000

I just found this article, thanks for posting! We use amazon, but had no idea there were so many other options. Time to shop and compare.

By: Umut M.

Umut M. — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:22:50 +0000

@Nadya,
It is a great application. Thanks for sharing it for free.

@Renato,
There are no extraordinary differences. If you will be using the S3 storage, you must be using their API to upload/update/delete files or if your app. will need extra servers at busy hours, you can create new AMIs automatically via coding.

In my opinion, just running your app. in an Amazon virtual machine wouldn’t be counted as an app. running in cloud. It is all about using the advantages of it like unlimited storage, auto-scalable number of servers..

Amazon won’t be taking care of the rest, you should be using their API to make your application take the rest .

By: Renato Leite

Renato Leite — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:02:43 +0000

Hi Guys,

I would like to know if there is any difference between developing an application for the cloud (Amazon for exemple) and a local app ?
Do I have to customize APIs to access my aplication or I just have to deploy a Virtual Machine (in Amazon) and Amazon take care of the rest?

Thanks a Lot. Very good post!
Best regards,
Renato

By: Nadya

Nadya — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:13:04 +0000

Thanks so much for your mentioning CloudBerry Explorer freeware!

By: Wil Sinclair

Wil Sinclair — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:01:26 +0000

Great article! There were some conspicuous omissions IMO, however. First, you can't talk about cloud storage without mentioning Nirvanix in the same breath. Also, it may be worthwhile mentioning the commercial service providers that add value to others' clouds, like Right Scale. BTW, I think you may have meant "Like *EC2*, GoGrid also comes with ready to deploy server images with various configurations (Linux & Windows)." ,Wil

By: Kevin Hazard

Kevin Hazard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:01:11 +0000

The Planet offers Cloud Storage and CDN as well. We also recently ran a report comparing performance with a few of the services included on the list.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:05:54 +0000

also smth worth to mention:

http://www.mor.ph/products_appspace (based on Amazon S3)

http://www.stax.net/ – for Java apps

http://www.eucalyptus.com/ – software for private clouds

http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/ – Java API for concurrent access to cloud services