Chris, I’m inclined to wait until you’ve had chance to resolve issues migrating services between clouds – which has to wait till you’ve added support for something other than EC2.

Paul, I can’t tell whether GoGrid would be less expensive or not. Our bandwidth usage may fall into your $0.50 a GB bracket – which doesn’t compare with flexiscale’s pricing. Then again, flexiscale charge for incoming and outgoing, where you just charge for outgoing.

I guess it depends whether our cron-jobs and external API calls counts as incoming data (e.g. a cron-job running on the server and pulling a big-ass datafeed from an affiliate network..?)

You should look into GoGrid. We are a lot less expensive than Flexiscale or AWS. I’d be happy to give you a free trial code.

Best,

Paul Lancaster
GoGrid Business Development

I work at CohesiveFT you should check out our Dynamic Assembly platform as your on ramp to the cloud, we give you portability supporting multiple VM’s and clouds. This is currently EC2, other clouds being available very soon. You can try it out for free at http://www.elasticserver.com

We can also help you with cross cloud deployments, mitigating the risk of one failing.

Let me know if you want to chat

Chris