What are the best IaaS providers to host (and manage easily) thousands of websites?

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What are the best IaaS providers to host (and manage easily) thousands of websites?

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Best IaaS providers to host (and manage easily) thousands of websites	Price	Server locations	ISOs
-- Heroku	-	-	-
-- F(x) Data Cloud	-	United States	Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows
-- Microsoft Azure	-	-	-
-- Amazon S3	-	-	-

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Heroku

Top Pro

Excellent error logs

When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison. See More

Top Con

Really expensive

Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that free tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey. See More

Top Pro

Mature

Heroku is one of the oldest PaaS providers. The fact that it's been around for such a long time means that it had a lot of time to mature over the years. There's also a massive number of articles, guides and tutorials on Heroku out there for beginners and advanced users. See More

Top Con

Constrained by addons

If you want to fully customize your production environment, then Heroku can be seriously constraining. Installing libraries or services can not be done unless there is already a Heroku plugin for it. See More

Top Pro

Free option

Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space. See More

Top Con

Further deployments are slow

While starting with Heroku is fast and easy, and the first few deployments are actually very fast, larger applications tend to have slower deployments. It takes some time for the dynos to restart and while they are restarting the application is completely offline. Which means that you can lose precious seconds of application time. See More

Top Pro

Simple scaling

Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI. See More

Top Pro

Dedicated build servers

Heroku has dedicated servers for building app dependencies, to ensure that you won't have issues like "out of memory" errors when deploying your app. See More

Top Pro

Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies

Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you. See More

Top Pro

Easy to start with

Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku documentation also helps a lot. See More

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F(x) Data Cloud

Top Pro

High uptime

All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime. See More

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Server locations:United States

ISOs:Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows

Cloud Storage:Yes

Virtualization:KVM

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Top Pro

Provides high configurations

32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses. in just $800 See More

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Microsoft Azure

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Amazon S3

Top Con

Unpredictable monthly charges

Since costs are determined by usage, they vary month by month. See More

Top Pro

Supports custom root domains

To set up a custom domain, Amazon Route 53 has to be configured as the DNS provider with the domain registrar, two buckets have to be created and configured with the name the same as the domain - one including, one excluding www. See More

Top Con

No SFTP support

Amazon S3 does not have SFTP support, instead the S3 web interface has to be used. See More

Top Pro

Super cheap with a year's worth of free service

S3 storage costs $0.03 per GB and gets cheaper the more is stored, PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests are $0.005 per 1,000 requests and GET and all other requests are $0.004 per 10,000 requests. And with some restrictions is available for free for a year. See More

Top Con

Confusing web interface

Amazon S3's web interface is quite confusing, especially for first-time users. See More

Top Pro

Easily scalable

There's no cap in storage or traffic. Costs is based on usage. See More

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What are the best IaaS providers to host (and manage easily) thousands of websites?

4 Options Considered

Heroku

My Recommendation for Heroku

My Recommendation for Heroku

Excellent error logs

Really expensive

Mature

Constrained by addons

Free option

Further deployments are slow

Simple scaling

Dedicated build servers

Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies

Easy to start with

F(x) Data Cloud

My Recommendation for F(x) Data Cloud

My Recommendation for F(x) Data Cloud

High uptime

Provides high configurations

Microsoft Azure

My Recommendation for Microsoft Azure

My Recommendation for Microsoft Azure

Amazon S3

My Recommendation for Amazon S3

My Recommendation for Amazon S3

Unpredictable monthly charges

Supports custom root domains

No SFTP support

Super cheap with a year's worth of free service

Confusing web interface

Easily scalable

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