Re:GoGrid Beta (Score 2, Informative)

Don't worry, I'm pretty thick-skinned. You have some valid questions that others probably have so I'm glad to help in what little way I can.

Currently you can't make your own images, but that is a feature request that is a common one. We do have other Linux distros, specifically, CentOS. We are working on Ubuntu among others as well.

Obviously, we are slightly smaller in terms of infrastructure compared to Amazon. However, we do have a 20,000 sq ft data center and understand hosting. Other products of our have multiple POPs around the world so things similar to "availability zones" is an obvious extension. Ok, I won't talk about the SLA with the exception of we do pro-actively issue credits. Did Amazon do that with S3 when it went down earlier?

You are right about competition. It's good for Cloud Computing in general and helps to drive standards and maintain good pricepoints. We encourage it. Hopefully we can move a bit more rapidly than the likes of Amazon or Google, but we don't have the vast resources as they do. We are 100+ and growing company (hiring as well!). I love your ideas.

In terms of failover for EC2, we whole heartedly agree in this stragegy. It makes sense. Currently, our persistent storage is tied to machine images but stay tuned on that as well.

Don't forget that $100 trial promo code I'm offering. Just enter "GGMS" in the signup page. Test it out and let me know what you think.