Public Clouds

ucloud is the public cloud computing offering provided by the KT Corporation (formerly Korea Telecom). KT's cloud offering is based on CloudStack includes compute, storage, CDN and other cloud capabilities based from KT's data centers in South Korea.

Voxel owns and operates their own data centers and network since 1999. They offer cloud servers from their New York, Amsterdam and Singapore data centers. They also operate the VoxCast CDN. Voxel offers both a Flash/Air UI and API management capabilities.

VPS.net has offered VPS services since 2004. They currently offer VPSs in data centers located in US West (Utah), US East (Atlanta), US Central (Chicago) and EU (London). They also resell Akamai and Highwinds CDN services for very reasonable prices.

The Tata Communications InstaCompute platform provides IaaS capabilities currently in India and Singapore. Tata also recently acquired BitGravity, a CDN provider specializing in the delivery of broadcast-quality video and live broadcasting.

Microsoft is a late arrival to the cloud market, but is now dedicating significant resources to their Azure cloud services. Azure offers a .NET Platform, Storage, CDN, SQL Server Database and Messaging services, all available with on-demand pricing.

serverloft is a subsidiary of PlusServer AG. They currently offer cloud services based out of the datadock data center located in Strasbourg Germany. They have also partnered with Level 3 to provide CDN services.

GoGrid is the cloud computing spin-off of ServePath and ColoServe which have provide dedicated hosting and co-location since 2002. The GoGrid cloud service launched in 2007 and offers Servers, Storage and EdgeCast CDN services with on-demand billing.

CDNetworks provides a suite of web performance acceleration services including content acceleration (CDN), storage, DNS, streaming and cloud load balancing. The core of their services center around their content delivery network.

Akamai manages the largest content delivery network on the Internet and handles a significant portion of Internet traffic for media files and video streaming. Many large media and technology companies use Akamai's content delivery and streaming services.

Limelight provides content delivery and streaming services. They are a significant play in the CDN market providing services to many large media and technology companies including Microsoft, MS NBC and MTV.

Cotendo is a Anycast content delivery network. Their focus is more on the enterprise market, offering not only CDN, but also dynamic site acceleration, DNS, CDN balancing and other features. Pricing is negotiated based on a monthly commit.

CacheFly operates one of the largest anycast-based content delivery networks consisting of 19 PoPs located in the US, EU and APAC. CacheFly's performance is generally very good based on our speedtest. CacheFly pricing plans start at $99/month for 256GB.

CloudFlare was a runner-up for the 2010 TechCruch Disrupt. They provide a unique CDN and security service via website proxying over their anycast network. To use the service, you simply assign DNS for your domain to them, and they take care of the rest.

Brightbox is a UK based provider specializing in Rails hosting and MySQL hosting. They also offer cloud hosting, load balancing and CDN services (through CDNetworks).

Rackspace has been providing managed dedicated hosting since 1998. The Rackspace Cloud was launched in 2009 after Rackspace acquired VPS provider Slicehost. Their cloud services currently includes servers, storage and Limelight CDN.

EdgeCast provides a suite of content delivery services including it's staple CDN as well as site acceleration, storage, and their application delivery network (ADN).

Cloud Cache provides global website caching. It essentially provides global proxies to your website which reduce latency and improve overall performance.

SoftLayer got its start with managed dedicated hosting in 2006. They own and operate 3 data centers in Texas, Seattle and DC. SoftLayer began offering cloud services in 2009 including Servers, Storage and Internap's CDN service.

AWS is the guerilla in the room in terms of cloud computing. It was initially created to enable better management of their own infrastructure. AWS offers Servers (EC2), Storage (S3), CDN (CloudFront), Databases (SimpleDB & RDS) and many advanced features.

Speedyrails offers VPS, Ruby on Rails hosting, Content Delivery (via Edgecast CDN) and bundled Dynect DNS services. They currently operate out of 2 different data centers located in Quebec, CA.

MaxCDN is an anycast-based CDN. They offer aggressive pricing (currently $39.95 for 1TB) and advanced features including PoP or origin pull, media streaming, API, and a nice web management UI. Price to performance ratio is excellent compared to other CDNs

Internap provides a variety of IT services including CDN, cloud storage, co-location and managed hosting.

NGENIX is a Russian operated and targeted CDN (Content Delivery Network). Their network consists of PoPs (points of presence) located within the 'last mile' with 350 operators, 100 of which provide services in Russian regions.

SwiftServe is a Singapore based CDN (Content Delivery Network) whose focus is on content delivery in the Asian market. Their services include large file delivery, streaming video, website acceleration and content security.

CDNvideo is a Russian based CDN which primarily focuses on video content delivery including both streaming and progressive. Their video streaming support includes RTMP, RTSP, SilverLight, QuickTime and HTTP Live Streaming.

Level 3 provides a host of communication related services including CDN

HP Cloud is built on the Openstack platform. It offers compute, block and object storage, CDN and MySQL database cloud services.

CDN77 provides a low cost CDN based on the OnApp technology stack.