India Based SSD Cloud Servers Comparison: NetMagic Vs AWS Vs Digital Ocean Vs E2E Networks Vs SoftLayer
Most online comparisons of VPS instances seem to exclusively focus on the smallest (read cheapest) instances offered by various players. We think this is a somewhat blinkered approach as the smallest instances are almost never useful for production environments! We decided to go out and see what was on offer in India, from various cloud vendors but before doing so we set certain parameters so as to make it as close to an apples to apples comparison as possible. First of all we decided that we should look at only those instances which were priced at or near the US$ 0.20/ hour mark. Secondly, considering the way the market and technology is moving as well as to ensure that performance of various plans was as similar as possible, we wanted to limit our comparison to only those providers who were exclusively offering Solid State Disk (SSD) based instances . Even though not too many players in India are offering SSD based plans, we think this is the future and in most