With all the same features as the Linux version, Cloud Servers for Windows offers very competitive pricing starting at $0.08 per hour. Users will also enjoy the same service level agreement they have come to expect from Rackspace.
Cloud hosting has become a powerful and affordable option for those who need access to server resources on a dynamic basis. Two of the biggest names are Amazon and Rackspace, and the Amazon EC2 and RackspaceCloud offerings both take the lead in this growing market.
Yes, your web site is “on the Internet,” but you may also be interested to know where physically your web site sits.
There are many different types of web hosting, and it’s easy to get them confused. Cloud hosting uses the same concept and is in reality just another type of shared hosting, but with greater upwards and downwards scalability.
Cloud hosting gives you more capacity and power than a shared account, and is quite economical and incredibly scalable. In essence, cloud hosting doesn’t host your web presence on a single physical server; rather, it’s hosted in the “cloud”.