Cloudorado Wins Second Prize in Startup Contest!

We are proud to announce Cloudorado has beaten over 700 other startups and won the second prize in “Business Concept” (Polish “Pomysł na Firmę”) contest by Raiffeisen Bank. Startup contests are a great opportunity for verification of a service. Winning the prize confirms the direction taken and becomes an important milestone. We believe it also proves the value we bring to our users.

The contest constituted of three parts. Firstly participants had to send their business plans, which were the input to select 12 finalists. The finals happened 1.5 month later in Warsaw, were participants had to present their idea in 10 minute pitch followed by 20 minutes of questions. A week later the winners were announced during an event in Warsaw.

We really hope it is not the last contest we win!

JoyentCloud now available in Cloudorado

Today we have added a new provider to Cloudorado – JoyentCloud. JoyentCloud is positioning itself as a high performance provider. Interesting feature to mention is vertical scaling without any down time.  From cost perspective noticeable aspect is 20TB transfer included per month per account and overage at the level of 8 cents per GB.

Check with the cloud computing price comparison engine if JoyentCloud offers best deal for your needs.

VPS.NET added to Cloudorado

Today we have added one more provider – VPS.NET. VPS.NET provides cloud servers in multiple locations in US (Chicago, Atlanta and Salt Lake City), Europe (London and Amsterdam) and Japan (Tokyo). They allow you to create servers that constitue of 1 to 45 blocks of 376MB RAM, 10GB storage and 600MHz dedicated CPU. Moreover each block comes with boundled 1TB tranfer. In addition to that you can extend server with 25GB SAN storage blocks or fast SSD storage in 2GB chunks.

Check VPS.NET offer with the cloud computing price comparison engine.

eApps added to Cloudorado

Today we have added a new cloud hosting provider to the Cloudorado – eApps. eApps is a hosting provider since 1996. Cloud server resources can be chosen in range of 256MB to 16GB RAM, 1 to 12 CPU cores and 8 to 500 GB storage. Servers are billed in monthly periods. The cloud servers are located in Atlanta data center.

Check with the cloud hosting price comparison service if eApps best serve your needs.

Amazon adds Windows support for Cluster instances

Today Amazon has added Windows support for their biggest instance types – Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU - see AWS Blog. These are the most powerful instances available in Amazon EC2, providing 8 Xeon Nehalem cores and 23 GB RAM, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and NVIDIA Tesla for the GPU instance. These instances weren’t so far available with Windows, what was limiting Amazon’s offer for CPU intensive applications running on Windows. Now the gap was closed. Obviously Cloudorado is already reflecting the change.  

GigeNET - a new cloud hosting provider in Cloudorado

Cloudorado has a new cloud hosting provider – GigeNET. GigeNET has two datacenters in US – Los Angeles and Chicago. Apart from cloud servers GigeNET provides also dedicated servers and collocation service making it  possible to build hybrid solutions. Cloud servers are charged on either hourly or monthly basis but the later includes free transfer. Internal traffic is free of charge including transfer to dedicated servers.

Check if GigeNET is the right provider for you with the cloud computing price comparison engine. 

DediServe – a new cloud hosting provider in Cloudorado

Today we have added a new provider to the Cloudorado – DediServe. DediServe is a provider with data centers in both US (Dallas) and Europe (London). Servers are billed on a monthly basis and also have transfer included (up to 4 TB). Incoming transfer is not billed and if the outgoing limit is exceeded, it is charged on a level of 3 cents per GB, which is the lowest price so far. This might be a good choice for transfer intensive applications. There are also many other items included in price - most notable backups, Windows Server Web Edition and support. 

Check with the cloud hosting price comparison service if DediServe is the best cloud provider for your needs.