• Application Server 1: 2GB RAM, Dual Core
• Application Server 2: 2GB RAM, Dual Core
• Video Server: 4GB RAM, Dual/Quad Core
• Database Server: 4GB RAM, Dual Core
• Failover Server: 2GB RAM, Dual Core
• Search Server: 2GB RAM, Dual Core (not needed initially, but within a few months)

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• Price: Best price for the features available
• Setup Cost: Very nominal
• Setup Features: 24 cores@2.66GHz, 64GB RAM, load balancer, redundant IPS enabled F/Ws, over 100TB data transfer, High availability (using Vmware vmotion/DRS and clustered SAN storage)
• Security: IPS enabled firewalls, IPS implemented at root network infrastructure, no IDS (we may need to implement IDS)
• Backups: Software agent R1soft included, backup storage and scheduling is our responsibility (need to add storage @0.27/GB)
• Expandability: Yes, by simply adding new physical servers to the setup
• Trial period of 3 months avaialable with monthly billing, after which, we can convert to yearly contract
• Although a new name for us, gnax customer reviews are positive

• Price: Bit on the higher end (esp storage), I believe we'll have room for negotiation being current customer.
• Setup Cost: None
• Setup Features: 16 cores@2.26GHz, 48GB RAM, with and without loadbalancer (no firewall, working with RS to include it), 2TB data transfer, High availability (using Vmware vmotion/DRS, RAID 5 storage)
• Security: Just Firewalls (working to see if IPS can be enabled on Firewalls), have expensive IDS solution from AlertLogic (about $2500/month)
• Backups: 2 Week retention backup included
• Expandability: Awaiting RS response
• Expensive storage solution

1 Open Cloud ($4,651 per mon/ $3,475 setup)

• Price: Bit on higher side compared to features offered
• Setup Cost: High (they may negotiate this)
• Setup Features: 12 cores@2.93GHz, 48GB RAM, load balancer, F/Ws, 1Mbps (limited to ~=326GB data transfer/mon), High availability (at core infrastructure level)
• Security: Just Firewalls (claim to be secure, enterprise-class cloud environment)
• Backup: Our responsibility (need to add storage @$22/100GB)
• Expandability: Yes, simply adding more VMs as required
• Portal is very feature rich, helps easily manage the setup
• Ubuntu is not supported as guest OS, only Redhat Linux is supported, bandwidth transfer is limited

2 Dedicated ($6,473.80 per mon/ $2,775 setup)

• Price: High (with a single physical server in setup)
• Setup Cost: High (they may negotiate this)
• Setup Features: 12 cores@2.93GHz, 24GB RAM, with single firewall and load balancer 1Mbps (limited to ~=326GB data transfer/mon)
• NO High availability
• Security: Just firewalls
• Backup: Our responsibility (need to add storage @$22/100GB)
• Expandability: Yes, simply adding more physical nodes
• Portal is very feature rich, helps easily manage the setup
• Ubuntu is not supported as guest OS, only Redhat Linux is supported, bandwidth transfer is limited, single physical node in the solution

• Price: Higher price due to built in security features
• Setup Cost: Above normal
• Setup Features: 32GHz CPU processing, 48GB RAM (spread on 3 dedicated DELL servers), with load balancer & redundant F/Ws, bandwidth 100Mbps (~- 32TB data transfer/month)
• High availability (using multiple nodes, Xen hypervisor)
• Security: Highly secure environment (security features mentioned below)
• Backup: Our responsibility (500GB of storage available @ 495/month)
• Expandability: Yes, simply adding more physical nodes
• Most secure hosting provider in our list

   Managed firewall with HA and site-to-site VPN service; and Managed IDS/IPS
   Enterprise Log monitoring and SIM solution for 10 hosts (Windows/*nix servers, firewalls, switches, VPN)
   Enterprise Host-based intrusion detection (HIDS) for 10 hosts (Windows/*nix servers)
   Internal/external vulnerability scanning
   Yearly fully managed penetration test

• VMs: 6 Large VMs (2vCPU + 7.5GB RAM)
• Storage: Non persistent, EBS or S3
• Load Balancer: Per hour charge
• Firewall: Management console
• IP Addresses: Limited to 5 per account (special request for more IPs)
• Lack of persistent storage and uneven performance, need to pay for premium support

• VMs: 6 VMs (4vCPU + 8GB RAM)
• Storage: Persistent
• Load Balancer: No
• Firewall: iptables on each VM
• IP Addresses: 1 per VM (additional available)
• Lack of load balancer and central firewall management
• Performance consistently meets expectation

• VMs: 6 VMs (8 core + 8GB RAM)
• Storage: Persistent
• Load Balancer: Included
• Firewall: Option to get a dedicated one (have accounted for one in our pricing)
• IP Address: Unclear
• Infrastructure built on commodity hardware (Xen based), failure of a server can cause loss of VM data
• Just like AMI, server images are available from commercial partners and from communities

• VMs: 6 VMs (4 CPU + 4GB RAM)
• Storage: Persistent
• Load Balancing: Included
• Firewall: Hardware base firewall solution included (set security rules from portal)
• IP Addresses: 1 per VM (additional available)
• Completely persistent and highly available environment (Cloud Server data is stored on network storage nodes and they will restart automatically within minutes if there is any sort of computing node failure)

• VMs: 6 VMs (mix of 2×2 and 4×4)
• Storage: Persistent
• Load Balancer: Included
• Firewall: Included (with 2 VLANs)
• IP Addresses: Unclear
• Expensive (esp on storage, bandwidth), no support for Ubuntu
• Better flexibility to adjust CPU, RAM & Storage, solution geared towards Enterprises, impressive portal to manage the setup

• VMs: Get total of 13 CPUs, 27GB RAM and 1.3TB of storage, 1.2TB outbound/unlimited inbound bandwidth
• Storage: Persistent
• Load Balancer: Included
• Firewall: Included (with 2 VLANs)
• IP Addresses: Unlimited
• Seems a reasonable solution with decent features: http://www.opsource.net/Services/Cloud-Hosting/Pricing
• Better flexibility to adjust CPU, RAM & Storage, can connect with dedicated servers, Intrusion Prevention implemented at core networking - included in cloud offering
• Cloud hosting datacenters in Virginia, US; London, UK, coming up in Singapore, physical server can be in any datacenter and can be connected to cloud VLAN
• Ubuntu 10.04 “CANNOT” be implemented in cloud due to Vmware's discontinued support, Opsource can support it on a dedicated physical server