Cloud Hosting: Slicehost, VPS.net and Media Temple Comparison Review
Disclaimer: The post indicates my personal opinion, all references about Envato are not official.
The word cloud is getting a lot of attention lately, almost like web 2.0. Marketing gimmick aside, I believe cloud computing does offer a tremendous amount of advantages over traditional computing environment.
At Envato, we use a number of providers for our server needs. We currently have servers with Media Temple, Slicehost and Engine Yard.
Even though Envato was already using Slicehost for some of their applications, I still did my fair share of research before making a suggestion to move away from Media Temple.
I have eventually nailed down to three service providers: Slicehost, Linode and VPS.net.
For Envato, we decided to go with Slicehost, because we already have some servers there, and they offer bandwidth pooling. We would have given Linode a deeper look if they had offered backups (their backups system is still in beta).
Having said that, I was very very impressed by VPS.net, so I decided I should sign up anyway, for my personal projects.
Let’s compare the three services: Slicehost, VPS.net and Media Temple.
