[blakeperdue]

Interesting from an IO point of view. It would be nice to have a clearer tie-in with CPU and other benchmarks for these providers. Does anyone have any experience with Storm on Demand to share? Their prices for SSD-based servers look enticing.

[jread]

We co-locate with their parent company Liquid Web and have conducted extensive testing of their cloud services. They are a very solid service, knowledgable technical staff, very quick support response, great hardware, excellent reliability, and reasonable prices. We've been monitoring Storm for 2 years with 100% availability in 2 of their 3 regions: http://cloudharmony.com/status

[jread]

Here is a CPU performance comparison for the same set of servers. This metric is an approximation of EC2's ECU for other providers (the algorithm uses 16 CPU benchmarks and EC2 instance performance as a baseline): http://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks?benchmarkId=ccu&selec...