As the cloud market continues to grow, individuals, small companies and enterprises are faced with several choices for cloud service providers. How do you decide which cloud platform to deploy? And how do cloud service providers differentiate themselves in a sea of options? Often, it comes down to cost, security and a solid, proven architecture in place.
#1 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
#2 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - DigitalOcean, a New York based Cloud Hosting provider has recently announced their new $5 dollar a month virtual private server plan. Dedicated to building the easiest cloud hosting platform available, DigitalOcean is offering the subscribers of the new cloud server plan with 20GB disk space, 256MB Memory, automated back-ups, and free unlimited bandwidth.
#3 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - Storm On Demand is a proprietary cloud computing platform and server hosting infrastructure developed by Liquid Web Inc's software development staff. Storm On Demand makes it quick and easy to deploy and manage cloud servers from within a web browser. Storm features include instant server setup, utility style hourly billing, ability to clone server images, easy server scaling and complete backup/restoration capabilities.
#4 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - Since 1996, our unique combination of end-to-end services, high-performance technologies and unwavering commitment has helped thousands of enterprises transform their IT Infrastructure into a competitive advantage.
#5 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - RapidScale was founded in 2008 by a team of technology professionals. We are headquartered in Irvine, CA and have employees throughout the US in numerous roles. RapidScale is an industry leading cloud company. Our cloud computing solutions enable customers to simplify IT operations. We pride ourselves in moving computing into the next generation while providing outstanding service.
#6 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, offering the only solution specifically built to power real-time web and mobile applications.
#7 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - Rackspace has developed systems to address the seven key managed service elements. Their fully integrated, highly specialized services meet the needs of a multi-layer hosting environment. They have engineered, tested and deployed their managed services by utilizing tools.
#8 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - UnitedLayer is a new class of managed colocation company. UnitedLayer utilizes best of breed processes to build, deploy, and maintain next generation collocation facilities. In addition, UnitedLayer provides a state of the art IP infrastructure for hosted and managed clients. UnitedLayer operates more than 32,000 sq ft of managed DataCenter Space at 200 Paul Avenue in San Francisco.
#9 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - NaviSite's Managed Dedicated Hosting solutions integrate the latest technology including Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Linux and VMware® ESX, and feature dual hard drives, RAID, Intel® Xeon® server grade processors, Intrusion Protection and other industry leading features. All solutions are hosted in NaviSite operated enterprise grade SAS 70 Type II certified data centers, with best-in-class technology and design including N+1systems for power and cooling for guaranteed availability and performance.
#10 of Best Cloud Hosting of January 2017 - SingleHop is a dedicated and cloud hosting provider that offers highly scalable, on-demand infrastructure services to both end-users and resellers primarily under monthly contracts. With clients in 114 countries, two Chicago-area data centers, and over 10,000 servers online, SingleHop delivers state-of-the-art hardware, server management customization and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.