Comments on: Flexiscale launches on demand hosting

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:32:11 +0000

Alex from (mt)

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=638585

By: » Future of Web Apps rob@lazzurs.net: Me, tech and the world.

» Future of Web Apps rob@lazzurs.net: Me, tech and the world. — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:43:27 +0000

[...] we are not able to offer them with the platform we have built. That morning we got on Techcrunch (also Techcrunch UK) and everyone has been talking about Flexiscale every [...]

By: jas

jas — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:29:36 +0000

The good case of rip off britain when it comes to bandwidth it’s so so expensive here in britain,the best deal for naybody by a longshot for bandwidth has gotto to uk2.net a massive 10,000 GB a month,beat that for less than £200 a month ?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:11:07 +0000

Great idea - yes they’ve pumped up the price for early adopters, but it’s the quality that really matters with hosting of large-scale solutions. Personally, I’d trust Flexiscale more than some of their rivals given the link-up with XCalibre.

By: AL

AL — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:00:34 +0000

I think it’s great that we are seeing some competition in this market place, especially here in the UK .

However I think Flexiscale will have to check their numbers, as they aren’t yet competitive with AWS on my brief peak. I do this because I am in the market for just such a facility.

Here’s the numbers I calculated from their site.
http://www.editgrid.com/user/folknology/Ondemand_Hosting
Your mileage may vary, and I also recognize that Flexiscale offer things which AWS do not, but you have to get the basics right first, for us that means the numbers.

regards
Al

By: Taking on the giants by Kitchen 2.0

Taking on the giants by Kitchen 2.0 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:22:48 +0000

[...] has also got a good write up by Techcrunch (USA and UK) which is always good to see. I wish them all the [...]

By: Matthew Ogston

Matthew Ogston — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:19:40 +0000

It’s good to see Xcalibre behind this service. They have proved an excellent and reliable host in the past for many websites i’ve built and hosted. I hope their service is more reliable than MediaTemple’s Grid - which is still too patchy for my liking.

By: Jay Adair

Jay Adair — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:13:38 +0000

Well put The auto failover and backup aspect is indeed very good. I for one have to rely on my own systems to cover these.

By: Tony Lucas

Tony Lucas — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:04:18 +0000

Jay,

The key difference is one instance from us includes automatic failover to spare hardware, full backups, full enterprise level hardware,and the scalability factor as well. Taking these into account (which any serious business should) eliminates the cost differences.

Regards,

Tony.

By: Alex from (mt)

Alex from (mt) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:41:23 +0000

Mike,
Wow. Quite a lot of negative press recently? Where? Provide recent links…Ok, Having SOME Grid customers with latency this week, not completely down btw, has produced 3 blogs posts in 48hrs (as of this comment).

And on this side of the pond I see Media Temple posts like these:
http://www.jonholato.com/2007/09/28/digg-and-reddit-no-match-for-media-temple/
http://www.jonlee.ca/mediatemple-stands-up-to-a-digg/
http://www.5tags.com/2007/08/17/media-temple-grid-server-thoughts/

Did you actually do research or read that line off of a Press Release?

By: Jay Adair

Jay Adair — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:23:58 +0000

Expensive. I just used their calculator and it came out at more than double what we’re paying for another UK host.

If you’re wanting to try out ideas, i.e. facebook apps, it’s not like you need a server just for that most likely, you could just have one dedicated server and use that for a multitude of apps. If your app doesn’t perform well on one dedicated server when you’re in beta, then you’ve probably got a bad architecture Unless you’re running Facebook of course.

The biggest pain in the butt I see with UK hosting versus other markets like the US is bandwidth costs. We’re well priced on hardware, but we charge too much for bandwidth, or have too low a maximum data transfer ceiling before per-amount charges kick in.

By: On-demand host goes up against Amazon S3

On-demand host goes up against Amazon S3 — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:18:20 +0000

[...] Flexiscale, a new UK-based on-demand computing service aimed at Web 2.0 startups plans to compete with Amazon’s EC2/S3 service. The move - announced at today’s Future of Web Apps conference in London - is significant because there are so few ‘pay as you go’ hosting solutions in Europe, so the launch of a new service shows there’s real demand of this kind of scalable hosting for startups. Speaking to a few people about this space, I hear that architecturally Flexiscale could well have a better product than Amazon. That’s a big claim. But perhaps one of the key feathers in Flexiscale’s service is that it supports Windows while Amazon only does Linux, and offers an SLA, which the latter doesn’t. For more detail on this check out TechCrunch UK. [...]