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2 elements are fuzzy: - clock speed is way different from 3.5GHz to 2.6. This can lead to huge differences in some computations and no new instruction set can compete against brute force. - changing between those 2 cpus is not just a socket swap but a full platform change: can we get the other details of the 2 platforms ?

There is pithos [1] from the Exoscale [2] and powers the production system. A new version of the open source project with API signature v4 and other updates is due out soon.

[1] http://pithos.io/ [2] https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/

(Disclaimer: founder of Exoscale)

To address your partiality to Swiss products, check out Exoscale for a similar (5$) simple experience with advanced features in Datacenters in Geneva, Zurich, Vienna and Frankfurt. https://www.exoscale.com

Does it uses providers API to fetch the pricing?

What exactly would you call backup?

Snapshots and copy of those snapshots which are often offered are not true backup solutions. Then most providers tend to offer an integrated or not panel to have traditional backup agent alongside external storage capacity to copy those backups too.

This study from Google is interesting already:

http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...

Some are not that expensive, Runstatus[1] is 5$ a year with first year free.

[1] - https://runstatus.com

Almost everyone here suggest Object Storage which I too think is the best option for your case. Then you can modulate computing power or even technology (VPS, cloud instance, PaaS, or containers) as you will.

Some providers like us (I am CEO at Exoscale) bill the compute by the minute and allow to resize the direct attached disk even on small 5$/mo 512mb instances.

You also have http://rancher.com/ which makes it pretty easy and has deployment options on local hosts, bare metal or cloud providers (AWS, DO, Exoscale,...)

With exoscale we kick in at 6$ and offer full control https://www.exoscale.ch/pricing/

There are offerings that are less complex than AWS but still offer nice features like an object storage for example. This can come in handy with tools like S3MD or else.

Biased i know, you can check us out https://exoscale.ch for that.

Nice table, it provides a good overview of what is available. I would suggest also to add the protocol (S3, Swift,...) used and coverage by libs/languages.

I also created a PR to add support for Exoscale.

Some hosts are more OpenBSD friendly: https://www.exoscale.ch/syslog/2015/02/17/openbsd-meets-exos...

I can confirm the new Dotcloud runs on top of GCE

There are case studies also: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Case+...

Interesting what the CoreOS team is building. If the code becomes as neat as some of the main parts of CoreOS, then this alone merits attention, we cannot have to much security.

I must agree that the Swiss privacy law (DPA - Data Protection Act) is similar in the requirements it commands to data owners. The significant difference is that it not only applies to individuals like in Germany or EU but to Corporations too.

https://www.exoscale.ch/infrastructure/security/#data-protec...

No not cloud Foundry. LXC containers with the right orchestration.

For those interested on an alternative Gitlab install, someone contributed this using Vagrant and Puppet: https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/dep...

Can be provisioned on any supported Vagrant destination, not only ours.

With this new website, the libcloud community has done a great job of better documenting. The list of supported providers has also increased. we are glad to be part of the adventure with exoscale: https://libcloud.apache.org/blog/2014/01/27/libcloud-0-14-an...

Antoine from exoscale. We have a "regional" approach to cloud computing, with 3 positions: datacenters, operations and company status/funding all exclusively from Switzerland. It is written in our Terms.