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		<title>Mosso offers &#8216;new&#8217; cloud hosting</title>
		<link>http://blog.alastairdawson.com/2008/02/19/mosso-offers-new-cloud-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alastair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got all excited this morning reading TechCrunch with their post about Rackspace Offerering Cloud Computing with Mosso. Once I clicked through to investigate further it seems the &#8216;new&#8217; cloud hosting is just their old hosting plan with 30GB of storage slashed off (down to 50GB) so they can charge you 0.50/GB a month for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got all excited this morning reading TechCrunch with their post about <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/19/rackspace-offers-cloud-computing-with-mosso/">Rackspace Offerering Cloud Computing with Mosso</a>. Once I clicked through to investigate further it seems the &#8216;new&#8217; <a href="http://www.mosso.com/cloud.jsp">cloud hosting</a> is just their old hosting plan with 30GB of storage slashed off (down to 50GB) so they can charge you 0.50/GB a month for any overage.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the deal of the century!? a bonus $15/month to get back to their old limit of 80GB. Still no shell access, and still $25-85/month per Rails site.</p>
<p>I had high hopes for Mosso and Rails but after trying them I felt I was being <a href="http://www.mosso.com/pricing.jsp">nickeled and dimed</a>, the lack of SSH didn&#8217;t bother me as they&#8217;re good about installing stuff for you, the kicker was $20/month if you wanted to add SSL. I also didn&#8217;t see marked speed improvements over shared (or grid) hosts like <a href="http://www.mediatemple.com">Media Temple</a> (who host this blog, but not on the grid on a VPS).</p>
<p>All my Rails sites continue to be hosted on <a href="http://www.slicehost.com">SliceHost</a>, actually my secret recipe is a combo of Media Temple for email, FTP, and static stuff then either DNS trickery or .htaccess rewrites to apps on SliceHost. The best of both worlds.</p>
<p>Anyway I call shenanigans on Mosso.</p>
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