CloudSigma, a Zurich-based infrastructure cloud provider, uses its blog for outage notices, pricing, and posts about cloud storage and IaaS openness.
HN commenters discuss it as a European alternative to Amazon, asking about experience with it. CloudSigma staff also posted its price schedule link.
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I asked them about their policies regarding plans to expand to the US or hold any US interests, and also specifically asked about a mention in their policy documents on defamatory content (as I deal with user generated content) and received this good response:
we're based in the UK, both co-founders are UK residents and we have no plans to
become a US company. All our datacentres are in the UK, and expansion plans are
for the EU only.
We believe strongly in data protection and obey all the relevant laws. I agree
that ISPs really *should* be considered "mere conduits" but unfortunately there
is legal precedent that means we can be held responsible for defamatory content
if we're notified and do nothing about it.
Usually, solicitors for the allegedly defamed contacts both us and our customer.
If our customer is unresponsive or uncooperative and the alleged defamation
continues, then we get held responsible.
So our AUP considers defamation abuse to enable us to take action to protect
ourselves if we have to. The only other option available to us would be to have
customers indemnify us against any legal action (most likely in the form of
a large deposit :).
But we're not interested in suspending accounts or servers any time a
solicitor writes to us. If you deal with the reports in a timely fashion (usually
within 48 hours) then you shouldn't expect any problems.
And for what…
Apologies for formatting:
Computing resources CHF EUR GBP USD Unit
CPU 0.0250 0.0175 0.0150 0.0225 Core-GHz/hou
RAM 0.0325 0.0228 0.0195 0.0293 GB/hour
Storage 0.2000 0.1400 0.1200 0.1800 GB/per month
So $0.1800/GB/Month.
Source: http://cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules
So in the range of S3 storage which is "First 50 TB / Month of Storage Used $0.150 per GB" with a reduction to $0.100 per GB for reduced-redundancy.
Source: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing
EBS is $0.10 per allocated GB per month.
Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Cloud Sigma (http://www.cloudsigma.com/) is the best alternative to Amazon I have found. They don't provide services like SQS, but they do have scalable storage.
I suggest you change that aggressive, pouty tone of yours. I was addressing a specific point in your comment, not disagreeing with you.
Does anyone have experience with http://www.cloudsigma.com/? They seem like a nice alternative for european companies. It would be interesting to see a comparison with Amazon and Rackspace.
Cloudsigma is based in Zurich, Switzerland and seems to be fairly big. They should be able to cope with this kind of attack:
http://www.cloudsigma.com/
All our pricing is available at http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules .
Best wishes,
CloudSigma