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What is the Best Cloud Service Provider for Hosting a Messaging Application?

By James Anderson - Mar. 14, 2011

Hi guys, we are planning to build an application which will let the users create text messages and put them instantly on Facebook and Twitter from their mobile devices with a single click. Is it advisable to host this on AWS or Rackspace?


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  1. By Arijeet Mukherjee on Mar. 15, 2011

    I would host such an app on AWS.


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  2. By Rafael Joseph on Mar. 16, 2011

    And if on AWS, I would use S3 and Cloufront for an application like this. That is because this app would need to use two aspects of the range of AWS services - the storage and the CDN.


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  3. By James Anderson on Mar. 17, 2011

    Thanks guys, and specially Rafael for your advice on S3 and CloudFront. I did some research on my own, it seems that Rackspace would also be costlier.


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  4. By Mario Mettek on Mar. 20, 2011

    Hi James,


    I would give CloudSigma a try. It's cheaper than Rackspace and you are way more flexible regarding OS, etc. Traffic is also pretty cheap.


    http://goo.gl/LJDr2


    Kind Regards

    Mario


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