[Hawramani]

Wouldn't the perfect cloud platform be one that charges based on disk IO, disk space used, network IO, RAM space used, (Ram IO?,) and CPU used? Maybe there are other metrics I'm ignoring.

Someone should start making this.

[sdrinf]

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing been around since 2002, does automatic load-balancing, have most of the benefits of what people are calling "cloud-computing", makes no presumptions about language of choice, does MySQL, and is extremely competitively priced.

[sciurus]

"makes no presumptions about language of choice"

Yes, but don't they do this by running everything as CGI scripts? That won't perform well.

http://example72.nfshost.com/versions.php

[sergeys]

There's a 'pools beta' that runs your stuff in bsd jail. Worked well with mod_wsgi in my tests (I'm not using it in production though).

[buff-a]

That's effectively what is was. Only RAM was missing from the calculation.