[Novalug] Favorite cloud host?

[Miguel González Castaños]

On 28/01/2012 14:54, rich.goodwin at cox.net wrote:
> What is your favorite cloud host?  What is your average cost per month??
>
> I am looking to setup a small testbed of 5-8 "machines." I have not 
> fully thought the configuration through but that is one advantage of 
> the cloud - elasticity.
>
> I looked at Rackspace and will look at EC2...  How about others?  Are 
> they more competitive cost/servicewise?    Äne experiences - good or 
> bad would be appreciated.

Some clients are asking about EC2 support. Just because it's the new 
trend (as everything it's has its use case). I have no experience with 
Amazon or any other cloud service and I'm looking for playing around a 
little at home without going through the hassle (and the money) or 
setting up something for myself in EC2.

Anything that I can set up at home for testing? I've seeing things like 
OpenNebula but I'm wondering which private cloud open source tool is 
more similar to EC2.

Regards,

Miguel