Comments on: Next-Gen Web Hosting http://myownpirateradio.com/2007/11/16/next-gen-web-hosting/ musings on makers making things Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: My Own Pirate Radio » Utility Computing in Forbes http://myownpirateradio.com/2007/11/16/next-gen-web-hosting/#comment-274 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:58:21 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2007/11/16/next-gen-web-hosting/#comment-274 [...] buddy Al, who works at Amazon, posted an interesting comment on my recent next-gen web hosting post. In it he mentions this Forbes article, The Death of [...]

]]> By: Al http://myownpirateradio.com/2007/11/16/next-gen-web-hosting/#comment-273 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:34:01 +0000 http://myownpirateradio.com/2007/11/16/next-gen-web-hosting/#comment-273 Forbes ran an interesting article on this yesterday.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/forbes/2008/0211/036.html

thought you might be interested in some of the size estimates they had in there. The thing that surprises me most about EC2 is that there aren’t more players already well established in this arena. Forbes alludes to Sun,. IBM and EMC. Is Amazon really the best option today? Another interesting claim in this article is that renting computing via EC2 is up to 90% cheaper that Equinix.

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