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Pricing is not clear. From an official blog post, that's ~ 14 $ / month / cloudlet (128 MB RAM; 200MHz CPU equiv). But what about the databases ?

Pleaase give us a cost calculator!

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Sorry that wasn't clear. The way it works is pricing is the same for database and app servers, i.e. per cloudlet. HDD is free for the first 1GB. After that, there will be a monthly fee for storage that we have yet to announce. (it will be in line with what storage is currently running in the market)

Let's do some basic math.

Let's say that I rent two redundant dedicated servers that : - are each used at about 80% - are each equivalent of about 100 cloudlets - cost each $ 60 / month

If I want to switch to Jelastic, that's 14 x 100 x 2 x 0.8 = $ 2240 per month (gross simplification), against 2 x 80 = $ 160 per month + maintenance.

So if maintenance is < 2k€ for me, that's a no deal. In US a freelance sysadmin will cost more (?), but in my country, no. Too bad :)

I think you are looking at this from the wrong perspective. The idea is that you only pay for what you use. 2 dedicated servers means you always pay for the whole thing, plus you have to be the sys admin and a few other things. Jelastic eliminates that layer and it only charges you for what you actually use. I doubt you need to dedicated servers full time to run an app. The idea behind automated scaling is that you eliminate the costs associated with hosting. I come from a hosting background and this is a HUGE cost saving measure. Even if you get a sys admin for super cheap (Eastern EU or a BRIC country), it would still be cheaper to use Jelastic. All that said, another issue with mirrored, dedicated servers would be the issue of one going down: with Jelastic you won't have that issue.

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