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Mosso Pricing Update - Compute Cycles

May 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Cloud

A couple of months ago, Mosso the cloud based hosting provider introduced a change to their billing model that had existing users up in arms. The change that caused all the concern was a move to bill users partly on the number of requests that hosted sites incurred. If your sites clocked over 3 million requests in a month, you would be billed at quite a hefty rate for the number of requests over this limit. This site alone would burn 3 million requests easily given the amount of traffic I get: It only amounts to about 70000 unique visits per month.

Well the latest news is that Mosso appear to have been listening to users and revised the strategy yet again, to a metric that will be based on the concept of ‘compute cycles’. Pricing and the amount of cycles you get in your package has not been released yet but obviously users are keen to see if Mosso still provides the value for money that was originally apparent.

The fact is that with new technology models, new pricing models must follow: it remains to be seen if new pricing models build successful sustainable businesses.

Mosso

May 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Cloud

mossoGiven my current obsession with all things cloud bound - including Live Mesh and my employer Qire ( the world leader in cloud based intelligent telecoms ) i’ve upped sticks from my current hosting provider and decided to give Mosso a whirl.

Only time will tell if it will work out for me, given the new 3M request policy.

So anyway, the point being, if you see anything broken on the site, leave a comment or drop me a line. Thanks!

Microsoft SQL Server Data Services

March 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Cloud, SQL, SSDS

The big news from Mix08 seems to be the public beta of Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, cloud based super scalable data storage. This has big implications for the way that web applications can be designed and deployed, not least the reduced cost of not having to splash out for infrastructure and expensive licenses. Mixed with seamless access via SOAP and REST it makes a compelling option for persisting in the cloud. Linkage here, here and here.