First Looks – Mosso CloudServers
Mosso (aka Rackspace) have at last launched their CloudServers (aka Slicehost) offering to the public.
Similar to Amazon EC2 various flavours of Linux are available which will cost from around $10pm (256Mb,10Gb) up to $690 (16Gb/620Gb) plus bandwidth costs at $0.22/GB out and $0.08/GB in. Like Amazon, instances are scalable on demand but unlike Amazon (and what I see as a significant benefit over Amazon) instance storage is persistent in that it persists across shutdowns, failures etc without having to perform any voodoo in setting up your virtual environment. Via their online management console you have DNS management which is hosted outside of your server as well as a recovery console if it all goes wrong and a js based ssh client.
Unlike Amazon though, you are charged if your instance is shutdown since they guarantee system resources, also each instance gets a public IP (none NAT) and a private IP for inter CloudServers transfers. There’s an article here which compares CloudServers to Amazon EC2 where you can read more about the differences and the fact that support costs don’t increase as your usage increases.
Oh and they have launched with an SLA too!
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