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Mosso CloudFS Comparison

Posted At : July 15, 2008 10:54 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
Related Categories: Generic,Trends,Virtual Machines

	AWS s3 ec2	Google App Engine	Media Temple gs	Mosso CouldFS
Scalability	Upgrade ECU or Deploy new instances	Pay extras
OS	Any	Python - Universal	Linux	Linux / Windows
Other uses / extensibility	Complete flexibility Requires additional deployments	Requires Python and GQL	Easy to install additional applications
Resources	$0.10 - Small Instance (Default): 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform	Free for 500Mb of data and 5MM views/month	100 GBs of premium storage 1 TB of short-path bandwidth 100 unique sites / alternate domains 64MB Ruby/Mongrel container 1,000 GPUs 100 databases 1,000 email addresses	$50 Gb of SAN storage 500 Gb 10,000 compute cycles
Pricing	Storage $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Data Transfer $0.100 per GB - all data transfer in $0.170 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out Requests $0.01 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests $0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests* * No charge for delete requests Computing $0.10 per CPU hour SimpleDB $1.50/Gb/month	$0.10-0.12 per cpu cycle $0.15-0.18 in BigTable Gb/month $0.09-0.13 transfer Gb/month	Base: $20/month $2.56 per additional transfer GB $0.10 per additional GPU	Base: $100/month $0.25 per transfer GB $0.50 per storage GB $0.01 per CPU cycle MS-SQL $5/100Mb/month
Practical Rating (1-10)	7	5	8	9

posted on July 15, 2008 at 10:54 PM by Rob Gonda

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Facebook officially the largest social network

Posted At : July 6, 2008 5:05 PM | Posted By : Rob Gonda
Related Categories: Trends

Facebook has official surpassed MySpace in terms of monthly unique visitors. In April 2008, both monsters attracted 115 million people a month. Media Trends, Alexa, Google Trends, all confirm it.

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Facebook's growth was mostly internationally. MySpace is still dominates Facebook in the U.S. market, with 72 million monthly uniques. Facebook has 36 million monthly uniques, up from 23 million a year ago.

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In other markets like the U.K., Facebook outgrew MySpace last year and is over double its size today.

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