ElasticHosts
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ElasticHosts Ltd is a London based company, founded in March 2008, which provides an international cloud infrastructure service, currently provided from two data centers near London UK and one in San Antonio TX. It uses Linux KVM virtualization to provide operating-system-agnostic cloud servers.
ElasticHosts is privately held and competes in the cloud computing hosting space with other public cloud-infrastructure providers such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
and Rackspace Cloud.
ElasticHosts' most interesting points of variation from other cloud hosting platforms are that its EU hosting data center
s are in the UK and not Ireland, it is the first public cloud service built on Linux
Kernel-based Virtual Machine
(rather than Xen
), and it has an API that has been given a good review from a REST
perspective. It is further unusual in that it charges by resources (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network) as separate entities, allowing its customers to build virtual machines with widely different characteristics instead of simply categorized ones, such as small, medium and large instances.
ElasticHosts (and therefore licensees) are supported directly by BoxGrinder included in Fedora 15
as of May 2011.
ElasticHosts is privately held and competes in the cloud computing hosting space with other public cloud-infrastructure providers such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services . EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications...
and Rackspace Cloud.
ElasticHosts' most interesting points of variation from other cloud hosting platforms are that its EU hosting data center
Data center
A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...
s are in the UK and not Ireland, it is the first public cloud service built on Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel. KVM supports native virtualization on processors with hardware virtualization extensions....
(rather than Xen
Xen
Xen is a virtual-machine monitor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently....
), and it has an API that has been given a good review from a REST
Rest
Rest may refer to:* Leisure* Human relaxation* SleepRest may also refer to:* Rest , a pause in a piece of music* Rest , the relation between two observers* Rest , a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa...
perspective. It is further unusual in that it charges by resources (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network) as separate entities, allowing its customers to build virtual machines with widely different characteristics instead of simply categorized ones, such as small, medium and large instances.
ElasticHosts (and therefore licensees) are supported directly by BoxGrinder included in Fedora 15
Fedora (operating system)
Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...
as of May 2011.
ElasticStack
ElasticStack is the underlying stack system that ElasticHosts uses to provide cloud Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS). This is available as a licensed product, and several other companies around the world use the same infrastructure, licensed from ElasticHosts Ltd, to provide their own branded IAAS cloud to their customers.See also
- Cloud infrastructure
- Cloud computingCloud computingCloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
- Amazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services . EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications...
- Rackspace Cloud
- GoGridGoGridGoGrid is a cloud infrastructure service, hosting Linux and Windows virtual machines managed by a multi-server control panel and a RESTful API. GoGrid is privately held and competes in the dedicated hosting space against Rackspace and in the cloud computing hosting space with those listed in the...
- FlexiScaleFlexiScaleFlexiScale is a utility computing platform launched by XCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007, and subsequently acquired by Flexiant. Launched shortly after Amazon's EC2 service, it was Europe's first and the world's second cloud computing platform. Users are able to create, start, and stop...