Comments on: Mosso Joins the Cloud Computing Fray

By: Tech IPOs Return With Rackspace - GigaOM

Tech IPOs Return With Rackspace - GigaOM — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:11:32 +0000

[...] noted that Rackspace was raising money to expand its hosting infrastructure, expand rapidly into fast growing cloud computing sector and offer services for small and medium sized [...]

By: Stanford MIT VLAB

Stanford MIT VLAB — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:47:27 +0000

Hi all. Mosso’s Jonathan Bryce will be at the Stanford Business School on Tuesday June 17th @ 6:00pm on a cloud computing panel. If you’re interested here’s the link:

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By: items for 05.11.2008 « Tzetze Fly

items for 05.11.2008 « Tzetze Fly — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:31:00 +0000

[...] CloudFS Storage Service - GigaOM Mosso, an on demand hosting start-up is embracing Cloud Computing with open arms, and today launched the beta of CloudFS, a new web-based storage offering that will compete with [...]

By: Mosso Launches CloudFS Storage Service - GigaOM

Mosso Launches CloudFS Storage Service - GigaOM — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:08:55 +0000

[...] Storage Service — Mosso, an on demand hosting start-up is embracing Cloud Computing with open arms, and today launched the beta of CloudFS, a new web-based storage offering that will compete with [...]

By: RackSpace IPO Filing Hints at Expansion Plans - GigaOM

RackSpace IPO Filing Hints at Expansion Plans - GigaOM — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:05:42 +0000

[...] rapid expansion (including its investment in the cloud) are to blame for the decline in profits. The company made $362 million last year and more details [...]

By: Bryan Kennedy

Bryan Kennedy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:04:51 +0000

As a current Mosso customer (for the past two years), I can definitely say that Mosso is all hype with nothing behind it. Mosso's network is extremely unreliable with recent outages spanning days (a bit like Rackspace's, lately!). Their support has gone downhill, and their recent decision to keep monthly rates the same ($100) but tack on a new metric (hits) for overages has a good portion of their existing customers looking to move. I would leave too, but I have moved over too many domains to make it worth my time.

This would be a great opportunity for another hosting provider to come along with a better offering.

By: Mosso Reseller

Mosso Reseller — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:57:02 +0000

If anyone is interested in sharing the cost of Mosso with me, I’d be willing to set you up with one (or a few if needed) of the client accounts for a good price. Just need a few people to help offset my costs. I’m thinking $10 for me, plus the set fees at Mosso (for example, $5 for 100mb of MS SQL, etc). I can be flexible with price depending on what you’re looking for. I’m willing to set you up with unlimited email boxes and databases, since they’re free anyway!

Please contact me at MossoReseller at gmail.com if you’re interested.

By: Philip Wilkinson

Philip Wilkinson — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:42:34 +0000

We spoke to Rackspace in the UK about it and they all clammed up - saying how it was a different business and they didn’t really have any info to share. Basically they wanted us to stay on Rackspace and not even consider Mosso at all… Hardly a “partnership”

By: How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different - GigaOM

How Cloud & Utility Computing Are Different - GigaOM — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:38:36 +0000

[...] Amazon Web Services (AWS), despite a recent outage, is the current poster child for this model as it provides a variety of services, among them the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), in which customers pay for compute resources by the hour, and Simple Storage Service (S3), for which customers pay based on storage capacity. Other utility services include Sun’s Network.com, EMC’s recently launched storage cloud service, and those offered by startups such as Joyent and Mosso. [...]

By: silkyd

silkyd — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:14:27 +0000

I would love to try out Mosso: The whole package looks great. But the thing is, there are so many downtime warnings about them, there’s not way I’ll jump in right now. Google Mosso, and you’ll find post after post about a MySQL server going down; PHP going down; Email services interrupted. I’m not going to pay for them to learn how to master this technology–think I’ll wait a bit until they get the kinks worked out.

By: Lew

Lew — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:29:35 +0000

Rick, I don't know who you are, but you don't know what you are talking about. Mosso has one investor. Rackspace. And, I can tell you our commitment is real.

In response to the pricing question, that is a longer one. The question of simplicity vs. accuracy is at the center of it when you get to metering unlimited systems. Our goal is to create great value at a fair price. Right now we have seen from our data that on average (a key concept) requests is a good proxy for CPU/RAM which is the part of the equation beyond bandwidth and disc. Is it perfect? Far from it but neither are the other systems that exist out there. We continue to talk to customers on the transition to this model and its evolution.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:46:50 +0000

One of Mosso’s investors has released to me that Mosso is bankrupt.

By: Software as Services mobile edition

Software as Services mobile edition — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:13:05 +0000

[...] course the pricing isn’t totally scaled from the bottom up as Amazon EC2 is, but the model of basic-package-plus-overage is pretty well-established in the [...]

By: Realist

Realist — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:15:28 +0000

Forum where new pricing structure is being discussed.
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Status page to show how often Mosso goes down.
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Any Comments Lew? Who picked 3 mil hits per month as the cap? Bit rediculous…

By: Scott from popularo

Scott from popularo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:47:19 +0000

@Brian — Good point. We’re actually keeping a pair of servers with another provider that will be our test/qa environment, and can act as a hot standby setup for us that we can switch DNS to in the event of an extended outage with Mosso. And the bottom line is that if Mosso isn’t up to the challenge, they’ll lose our business.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:56:17 +0000

Scott from popularo: be careful about putting all of your eggs in one basket. This past week I’ve been tempted to throw my blackberry against a wall because it’s been buzzing with so many downtime notices from my site monitoring provider. I’ve had an account with Mosso for almost 2 years now, and honest to god, I get about 10-15 pings a week (minimum) that my site has gone down. I have yet to move a paying customer to their system.