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Posted by Ryan524, 01-26-2011, 04:03 PM
I have narrowed my search to either amazon ec2 or vps .net, any one with experience from either or maybe both have any feedback or redommendations?
Posted by logart, 01-26-2011, 04:33 PM
Ryan, I am evaluating a lot of cloud hosts at the moment and will soon be posting my results. vps.net and amazon are part of my evaluation. I am currently having issues with vps.net. Hopefully they can get them figured out, but the control panel and their ticket support have been a little frustrating. If you need live/phone/quick support for your server I would not suggest either one.
Posted by Linveo, 01-26-2011, 04:37 PM
Having used both Amazon and VPS.net I'd prefer VPS.net for its usability. I was not impressed with the EC2 control panel at all.
Posted by boskone, 01-26-2011, 05:25 PM
They are both quite different options. vps.net is more 'familiar' from a hosting point of view and, in my opinion much simpler to use. EC2 is more techie focussed and, as a result, quite a bit more complex to get up and running
Posted by IGobyTerry, 01-26-2011, 05:44 PM
Sorry you're having problems with one of our clouds. It's an extremely isolated issue that'll be fixed in a few hours and is only effecting creation of a new cloud vps in one location. The problem isn't with the infrastructure itself, but with the licensing part of our cloud vps creation page.
Posted by bsdvps, 01-26-2011, 06:07 PM
VPS was easy to use and upgrade then downgrade. I did that just to see how easy it was. I was in the London UK DC (if anyone was wondering) and got good speeds to the East Coast USA
Posted by ninkynonk, 01-26-2011, 06:23 PM
is EC2 still getting DDoSed? I hear it still is but not to the magnitude it was during the wikileaks thing.... I have also heard they charge a lot for support though.... can anyone confirm how EC2's support is?