rosscooney
| Member Since | May 1, 2009 |
| Last Login | May 1, 2009 at 06:48 am |
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| 01-May-09 06:50am | Yes, AWS rocks! Without it we would not have been able to launch our startup. We provide an email filtering service to SMB's through a group of resellers and xSP partners. We released the service in 2007 with only four 'real' servers in a datacenter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We plugged it into AWS in September 2007 and moved four of our ISP partners to the AWS network. Earlier this year we setup a partnership with Flexiscale to give us some backup power. We used these providers to 'bootstrap' our business into month-on-month cash positivity. We are now using that cash flow to buy our own servers. Due to a few strikes of good luck we now have a network of 50 servers located in Newcastle and Liverpool. Before buying the new servers we used cloud computing providers to run our network, now we use it for scale. Basically, we used cloud computing to bootstrap our business so that we could afford to transition to our own network. All this without VC funding. Ross Cooney Web: http://www.emailcloud.com Blog: http://www.spoutingshite.com From Amazon's cloud computing service fuels startup's launch |
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