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    Hostway (Ntirety)

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AHostway headquartered in Austin provides what they describe as 24/7/365 support and cost-effective, secure, multi-tenant, and dedicated hosting environments for SMBs and large enterprises. Hostway and HOSTING merged in January 2019 to grow their managed cloud services platforms. The company also operates under the name Ntirety. Hostway specializes in managed Wordpress hosting, but also offers basic starter web hosting and IaaS services, via its virtual private servers.N/A

    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

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    Hostway (Ntirety)IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Editions & Modules
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    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
    starting at $0.22
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)
    starting at $149.00
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
    starting at $0.038
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)
    starting at $25.21
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
    starting at $0.02
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (reserved)
    starting at $13.27
    per month
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (transient)
    starting at $0.01
    per hour
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Hostway (Ntirety)IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—IBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.
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    Hostway (Ntirety)IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
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    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Hostway (Ntirety) and IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
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    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    7.2
    88 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.181 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.176 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.664 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings3.072 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings7.384 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings4.777 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings6.984 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.178 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Hostway (Ntirety)IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
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    Performance
    -
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    7.3
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.1
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
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    Product Scalability
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    7.3
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    User Testimonials
    Hostway (Ntirety)IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hostway Services, Inc
    In my opinion, the entire company has room for improvement. We were locked out for more than a year and nobody took care of us and finally we had to move out.
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    IBM
    One scenario that immediately came to my mind was large-scale data processing, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is well-suited for organizations that require high-performance computing capabilities, particularly when processing large amounts of data. It can also be useful for companies or organizations that wish to migrate their workplace to the cloud and it may suite companies that have strict compliance requirements since the servers have robust security features.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Hostway Services, Inc
    • Easy Maintenance
    • Highly Scalable
    • High Availability
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    IBM
    • Scalability: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers enable businesses to simply and quickly scale up or down the resources they require in response to changing business demands. This enables firms to respond to traffic spikes, requests for new services, or changes in business size without the need for additional hardware purchases or maintenance.
    • Cost savings: By employing virtual servers in the cloud, enterprises can decrease capital expenditures for hardware and infrastructure while also lowering ongoing operational expenses by removing server maintenance and management costs. This can result in significant cost savings for enterprises, particularly those that need to raise or decrease their computer capacity fast and easily.
    • High availability: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is built with high availability in mind, giving enterprises the certainty that their applications and data will be available and accessible even if hardware fails or other disruptions occur. This assists enterprises in maintaining business continuity and lowering the chance of downtime, which is crucial for firms that rely on 24/7 access to their systems. Furthermore, IBM's comprehensive network and security features aid in the prevention of data breaches and other security risks, assuring the availability and reliability of their applications and data.
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    Cons
    Hostway Services, Inc
    • customer service
    • reliability
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    IBM
    • It would also be nice if there were more templates to choose from when creating a server. Right now there are only a few options, and we'd like to see more variety.
    • We'd like to see the ability to create server groups. This would make it easier to manage a large number of servers since we could do all of the updates and management tasks for them at once.
    • There doesn't seem to be a way to automatically install updates on all of the virtual servers. We have to go in and manually update each one, which can be time-consuming. It would be really nice if automatic updates can be done.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Hostway Services, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It has a flexible and affordable pricing, easy to configure and manage. It is easy to spawn one or multiple instances and have them up and running in no time
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    Reliability and Availability
    Hostway Services, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Always available when you need an instance.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Hostway Services, Inc
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    IBM
    Most of the instances work on hypervisors with good processors, but not all of them.
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    Support Rating
    Hostway Services, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It is adequate, but you need to be ready to argue your point - which is fair enough, I suppose, but being given the opposite of the benefit of the doubt every time does not necessarily result in an enjoyable user experience.
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    Implementation Rating
    Hostway Services, Inc
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    IBM
    We did not use IBM professional services to implement IBM Cloud Virtual Servers.
    Incentivized
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    Hostway Services, Inc
    For the ease of storing and managing Terabytes of data
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Virtual Servers offer more customization options than Amazon EC2, with the ability to select from a range of operating systems, storage types, and network configurations. IBM also provides a wide range of tools and services to help manage and optimize your virtual servers, including a web-based console, CLI, and API.

    AWS EC2 is a more managed platform, with a focus on providing a simple and easy-to-use interface. Amazon provides a range of predefined instance types, each with different specs and pricing, to make it easy to find the right option for your needs. AWS also offers a number of management and monitoring tools, but these are often more basic than what is available from IBM.
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    Scalability
    Hostway Services, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It worked well for us in the beginning, it works well for us when we have more instances.
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    Return on Investment
    Hostway Services, Inc
    • provided quick and easy solutions
    • Quick maintenance of our application
    • Negative impact is about performance handling issues and slowness of OS
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    IBM
    • Supports businesses who want compute power on demand (instances are ready within minutes).
    • It can give you access to a 32-core CPU at $0.29 for short running or interruptible processes - enabling cost-efficient number crunching.
    • Given me a taste of the powers of remote compute power for compilation and development.
    Incentivized
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