Public Clouds

KT's cloud offering (ucloud service) includes CloudStack based compute, Openstack Swift based object storage, KT CDN and other cloud capabilities based from KT's data centers in South Korea.

AgileCLOUD offer cloud virtual and bare metal compute and object storage from their New York, Dallas, Santa Clara, Amsterdam and Singapore data centers.

Dynomesh is a 100% Australian owned and operated high performance cloud hosting company, based in Melbourne. They offer on-demand compute resources, load balancing and shared MySQL and Mongo database services.

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.

GoGrid is an infrastructure-as-a-service provider specializing in Public and Private cloud solutions. Services include cloud & dedicated servers, load balancing, cloud storage, firewall, CDN, public & private networks all managed via a web portal or API.

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.

KeyCDN provides DNS based CDN hosting from 15 POPs for a flat cost of $0.04/GB for bandwidth and $0.90/GB for storage.

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.

connect.com.au provides an Australian cloud platform backed by the AAPT transit network. Services include Linux and Windows compute instances, CDN and Wifi services within the Australian market.