Can you recommend a Cloud host to us?
jnaut: The answer is - "It depends", on a lot of parameters like:
1. Do you need a dedicated box or a virtual OS on a shared box will do?
2. What are your avg monthly usage requirements- box and bandwidth? And how these requirements shall change of time.
3. You want to customize you box's configuration before u rent it?
4. You want to pay monthly or yearly or more?
5. Will you need additional throw away on demand computational nodes? How often?
6. Do you just wish to use servers or other services like S3, SDB, SQS, cloud-files(rackspace)?
Many more ....So I think if you describe you requirements and budget better, the suggestions provided will be better.About problems like low speed, outages, etc. Yes both have their own set of problems, but still a more relevant answer can be given when you have illustrated you requirements.I have been using EC2,S3,SDB for one of my projects(last 4 months) and Rackspace/Mosso cloudserver for another (last 3 months). Since the durations are short I may not be able to explain everything, but will try my best. :-)