Pricing windows cloud servers
Posted by jonathan - 16/02/10 at 02:02:00 pm
Many clients are now asking about cloud computing and how their company might benefit from it. While cloud computing provides clear cut advantages for on-demand scaling especially for processor intensive activities such as data crunching or multi-media processing, the average small business never needs this capacity. Despite this, they can benefit from the scale that cloud computing offers in terms of bandwidth pricing and rapid scaling. As the graph on the right shows, cloud computing standards, especially pricing standardization, present some big issues for adoption.
The calculations below are a relatively simplistic way of calculating cost using on-demand pricing and data transfer. The pricing models for cloud computing are still being tweaked and standardized between the major providers. It remains cumbersome to compare the offerings since pricing of resources has not yet been standardized. For example amazon only offers certain tiers of ram level, they have restrictions on operating systems at certain tiers, they might offer monitoring, where others price monitoring a la carte.
It will probably take another few years for cloud pricing models to standardize, but since I work mostly in the windows space I thought I’d provide a quick breakdown of current (2/16/2010) pricing for the top three windows server cloud hosters:
Breakdown by size
| Pricing Grid (RAM/Disk) | Instance Price | Data In | Data Out | Monthly bill (100GB Tranfer) |
| Amazon | ||||
| Small - 1.7 GB / 160 GB | $ 0.13 | $ - | 0.15 | $ 109.90 |
| Large = 7.5 GB / 850 | $ 0.53 | $ - | 0.15 | $ 401.90 |
| Extra Large - 15 GB / 1690 GB | $ 1.04 | $ - | 0.15 | $ 774.20 |
| Rackspace | ||||
| 512 MB / 20 GB | $ 0.04 | $ 0.08 | $ 0.22 | $ 59.20 |
| 1 GB / 40 GB | $ 0.08 | $ 0.08 | $ 0.22 | $ 88.40 |
| 2 GB / 80 GB | $ 0.16 | $ 0.08 | $ 0.22 | $ 146.80 |
| 4 GB / 160 GB | $ 0.32 | $ 0.08 | $ 0.22 | $ 263.60 |
| 8 GB / 320 GB | $ 0.58 | $ 0.08 | $ 0.22 | $ 453.40 |
| 15.5 GB / 620 GB | $ 1.08 | $ 0.08 | $ 0.22 | $ 818.40 |
| GoGrid | ||||
| 512 MB / 30 GB | $ 0.10 | $ - | $ 0.29 | $ 102.00 |
| 1 GB / 60 GB | $ 0.19 | $ - | $ 0.29 | $ 167.70 |
| 2 GB /120 GB | $ 0.38 | $ - | $ 0.29 | $ 306.40 |
| 4 GB / 240 GB | $ 0.76 | $ - | $ 0.29 | $ 583.80 |
| 8 GB /480 GB | $ 1.52 | $ - | $ 0.29 | $ 1,138.60 |
Comparing a 2GB instance with 100GB transfer
| Estimated bill for 2GB Server / 100GB Data Transfer | Price |
| Amazon | $ 109.90 |
| Rackspace | $ 146.80 |
| GoGrid | $ 306.40 |
Here’s links links to their pricing pages, amazon, gogrid, rackspace
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