IBM Cloud Internet Services vs. SCloud ULightHost

In terms of business challenges, it simplifies the job of my engineers and significantly increases the productivity of my teams when they collaborate with IBM teams all over the world. Now that we have completed a proof-of-concept using the services supplied by IBM, we expect it to assist us in managing them more efficiently; thus far, management has been straightforward.

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The bundled package available with cloud resources and high-bandwidth traffic at SCloud ULightHost further streamlines our deployment process, allowing for quick application development. In a way, boosting our time to market. An ideal choice for those looking to effortlessly harness the benefits of cloud technology at zero learning curve, that would maximise their time to focus on developing their apps.

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• Integration with IBM Cloud applications
• Easy to manage web application firewall
• Ease of protecting CloudFoundry applications
• Good console UI
• Protection for rare managed service offerings such as CouchDB through IBM Cloudant

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• Price factor
• Almost no learning curve
• Popular images

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• Request proxying is done by way of DNS name resolution, which is inflexible.
• Proxy services do not work on wildcard DNS entries.

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• More marketing online
• More images

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I have seen faster and more user friendly interfaces like Azure

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I have used Salesforce to explore it as an app but I have found them both able to solve my needs and requirements when it comes to security. While I choose IBM Cloud Internet Services for more accessibility, a better price was available with Saleforce. Although that is just my observation.

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Arguably the top name for 'lightweight' cloud compute product in the market, but is so much more complicated to start with more configurations, images and templates. We know what we want and proceeded to try SCloud ULightHost to satisfaction. Good pricing point that is transparent without fear of sudden bill shock from free credits expiration etc from AWS who collect credit card.

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• It had a positive impact with a big improvement on the performance of web applications.
• Services are quite fast to implement and easy to maintain from an IT perspective.

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• Cost savings $$$
• Time!! Maybe 1 min/instance?

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