New and Additional Tools included in RAD Studio XE4 and Delphi XE4

New and Additional Tools included in RAD Studio XE4 and Delphi XE4

RAD Studio XE4 is out in April this year. RAD Studio XE4 includes a comprehensive set of additional tools as compred to previous version to help you do more than ever before. Many new reporting, charting, logging, profiling and web tools are added to Delphi XE4 edition. Following is the list of tool which were not there in the previous versions or were used as third party tools, now included in RAD Studio XE4 edition.

1. FastReport VCL 4 RAD edition from Fast Reports so you can quickly design and generate reports.

2. Documentation Insight Express from DevJET Software helps you visually read and write XML documentation in the Delphi IDE.

3. TeeChart Standard from Steema provides quick and easy-to-use charting components.

4. VCL for the Web (IntraWeb) from AtoZed is a complete RAD Web Application framework.

5. CodeSite Express logging tools for building quality applications.

6. AQtime Standard from SmartBear for performance profiling.

7. Beyond Compare Text Compare lets you view differences between source files.

Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 and Delphi XE4 Features and Enhancements

Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 and Delphi XE4 Features and Enhancements

RAD Studio XE4 released on April 22, 2013. RAD Studio XE4 is available in five editions – Starter, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate and Architect. RAD Studio XE4 is filled with hundreds of new features and enhancements to help you build ultra-rich Windows, Mac, Web and mobile applications ultra-fast. Embarcadero Prism was available in earlier versions of RAD Studio. It is not included in RAD Studio XE4. Following is the list of features which Delphi XE4 provides:

1. Delphi XE4 supports Multiple Platforms

Delphi XE4 runs on multiple platforms like Windows, iOS and Mac. Delphi XE4 is used to build native applications for Windows, iOS and Mac with single codebase. You can run these applications on your PCs, Tablets and Smartphones. 

Development teams not using RAD Studio often have to support multiple development projects using different tools, programming languages, code bases, and sometimes different teams to deliver their app on both desktop and mobile devices. But building your app in RAD Studio eliminates the need to engage in multiple development efforts for the same application on multiple devices. 

2. Delphi XE4 builds Script Free True Native Apps

True native app development lets you deliver script-free, device-native apps that expose the full range of capabilities and performance in the underlying devices – for faster, richer apps that end users love.

Many tool vendors are using the term "native" app development to describe web technologies and scripts wrapped into an app package to deliver an app-like user experience. This approach can impose limits on app performance and capabilities.

True native apps in RAD Studio are script-free and run directly on hardware CPU.

3. Delphi XE4 uses Single Codebase for Multiple Platforms

With Delphi and C++Builder in RAD Studio, and the FireMonkey app platform, you can write an app once and natively target Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and Mac from a single IDE and single source code base.

4. Delphi XE4 provides Advanced iOS App Development Features

Delphi XE4 provides a lot of advanced iOS application development features like:

A) Delphi ARM optimized compiler

B) Phone and tablet development for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

C) Pixel-perfect native UI controls

D) FireMonkey for iOS

E) dbExpress data access for InterBase and SQLite

F) DataSnap client

G) Device service and sensor support (gyro, GPS, camera and accelerometer)

H) Mobile form designer

With Delphi in RAD Studio XE4, you get a full range of native styled user interface controls, including buttons, listboxes and combo boxes, to incorporate into your apps. The iOS apps you create include native controls like the date picker and custom picker, different keyboard types, services like notifications, and support for Share Sheet to print and share via social media, email and direct communication with other apps. 

Your apps can be installed on your iOS developer devices, distributed via Apple's App Store, or made available within your organization.

iOS app development features are available in all editions of RAD Studio, in Delphi Enterprise edition and higher, and in Delphi Professional edition with the Mobile Add-On Pack option.

5. Delphi XE4 creates Secured Native Apps

Many app development vendors use Java, JavaScript and WebKit runtimes which are notorious hacker targets presenting inherent security risks on mobile devices. Embarcadero RAD Studio allows for true native app development, so your code runs directly on the device, reducing the risk of being targeted by third party attacks.

6. Delphi XE4 supports many Databases and Cloud Computing

FireDAC gives you native high-speed direct access from Delphi and C++Builder to InterBase, SQLite, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, SQL Anywhere, Advantage DB, Firebird, Access, Informix, DataSnap and many more local/embedded, mobile and enterprise databases.

RAD Studio XE4 includes ISV and enterprise-class integrated database connectivity, middleware and cloud computing via dbExpress and FireMonkey. You get integrated support for SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, InterBase, SQL Anywhere, SQLite, MySQL, and many more embedded and server databases as well as cloud services including Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services.

Delphi XE4 provides extensive support for IBLite and SQLite iOS database.

7. Fast CPU and GPU native performance

Apps built with Delphi and C++Builder in RAD Studio are natively compiled and ultra-fast for the most performance demanding apps and user experiences. Windows and Mac apps are compiled to the Intel CPU architecture, and Delphi iOS apps are compiled to the ARM architecture. FireMonkey apps also directly utilize the GPU graphics hardware built into every PC, Mac, and mobile device built today and over the past decade.

8. Delphi XE4 supports Component-based development

With RAD Studio, you'll build apps up to 10x faster using pre-built components, drag-and-drop visual design, and Two-Way-Tools that always keep your visual design view and source code in sync. You get hundreds of components for user interfaces, charting, reporting, and connecting to databases and cloud services. Extend and customize the included components, create your own, or use the thousands of free and commercial components for every imaginable need.

9. Delphi XE4 has rich IDE

RAD Studio gives you everything you expect in an IDE like an intuitive code editor, integrated local and remote debugging, project management and building plus a whole lot more. You get advanced tools for refactoring, code audits, metrics and modeling. Delphi and C++Builder in RAD Studio also include special editions of popular add-on tools for logging, performance profiling, graphics, charting, reporting, web apps and creating installers – all at no extra cost!

Firebird: Free and Open Source Database Server

Firebird: Free and Open Source Database Server

Firebird is a free and open source relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. Firebird technology has been in use for 20 years, which makes it a very mature and stable product. Following is the list of features which Firebird provides:

1. Free and Open Source

Firebird is free like a bird. No fees for download, registration, licensing or deployment, even you distribute Firebird as part of your commercial software package. Anyone can build a custom version of Firebird, as long as the modifications are made available, under the same IDPL licensing, for others to use and build on.

Firebird's development depends on voluntary funding by people who benefit from using it. Funding options range from donations, through Firebird Foundation memberships to sponsorship commitments.

2. Firebird Supported Platforms

Firebird 2.5 runs on Windows (32- and 64-bit), various Linux versions (32- and 64- bit), Solaris (Sparc and Intel), HP-UX (PA-Risc) and MacOS X. Main development is done on Windows and Linux, so new releases are usually offered first for these platforms, followed by other platforms after a few weeks.

3. Firebird Architecutres and Versions

Firebird comes in a number of flavors: Classic, SuperClassic, SuperServer and Embedded. Latest release of Firebird are:

Firebird 3.0

Firebird 2.5

Firebird 2.1

Firebird 3.0 is available only for testing and not for production environment. Firebird 2.5 is the stable release.

4. Firebird Database Connectivity

Firebird is supported by numerous database connectivity options:

Firebird.NET

JayBird (Java)

Delphi/C++ Builder drivers (Embarcadero Delphi/C++ Builder IDEs include dbExpress drivers to work with Firebird.)

FreePascal & Lazarus

PHP for Firebird

FireRuby

and more.....

5. Firebird Administration Tools

Firebird comes with a number of powerful command-line tools to administer the database, but does not include a GUI interface. Fortunately, third-party GUI administration tools are available.

6. Firebird Codebase

Work on porting the codebase from C to C++ began in 2000. On 23 February 2004, Firebird 1.5 was released, which was the first stable release of the new codebase.

7. Firebird Documentation

The Firebird Project supplies users, developers and administrators with various kinds of documentation, from Quick Start guides to expert-level articles devoted to various aspects of Firebird.

There are a lot of papers, FAQs and articles that you may want to check in the Firebird main site. Also, you can check if your country has a localized community site or discussion list, so you can get support in your native language.

All this information can be found digging around in the Firebird main site. Also, check www.firebirdnews.org to get up to date with the most recent news related to Firebird.

8. Firebird Community Support

Firebird has large community around the world, where people will be glad to help newbies and experienced developers to get answers for almost all tricky questions.

Amazon vs Rackspace vs Microsoft vs Google: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison

Amazon vs Rackspace vs Microsoft vs Google: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison

Amazon Web Services, Rackspace OpenStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and Google are the major cloud hosting and storage service providers. Athough Amazon is top of them and is oldest in cloud market, Rackspace, Microsoft and Google are giving tough competition to each other and to Amazon also for alluring IT customers. This article give brief history of these cloud hosting service providers and compares the cloud services provided by them.

Amazon Web Services

It's hard to find someone who doesn't agree that Amazon Web Services is the market leader in IaaS cloud computing. The company has one of the widest breadths of cloud services - including compute, storage, networking, databases, load balancers, applications and application development platforms all delivered as a cloud service. Amazon has dropped its prices 21 times since it debuted its cloud six years ago and fairly consistently fills whatever gaps it has in the size of virtual machine instances on its platform - the company recently rolled out new high-memory instances, for example.

There are some cautions for Amazon though. Namely, its cloud has experienced three major outages in two years. One analyst, Jillian Mirandi of Technology Business Researcher, has suggested that continued outages could eventually start hindering businesses' willingness to invest in Amazon infrastructure.

That sentiment gets to a larger point about AWS though - the service seems to be popular in the startup community, providing the IT infrastructure for young companies and allowing them to avoid investing in expensive technology themselves. But Mark Bowker, a cloud analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, says Amazon hasn't been as popular in the enterprise community. "Amazon's made it really easy for pretty much anyone to spin up cloud services or get VMs," he says. Where is Amazon getting those customers from? Some are developers and engineers who get frustrated by their own IT shops not being able to supply VMs as quickly as Amazon can, so they use Amazon's cloud in the shadows of IT. "Taxi cabs pay for a lot of VMs," says Beth Cohen, an architect at consultancy Cloud Technology Partners, referring to users expensing Amazon services on travel reports. The point is there's a hesitation by some enterprises to place their Tier 1, mission critical applications in a public cloud.

Amazon is looking to extend its enterprise reach though. In recent months the company has made a series of announcements targeting enterprises and developers. It rolled out Glacier, a long-term storage service, while it's made updates to its Elastic application development platform and its Simple WorkFlow Service, which helps developers automate applications running in Amazon's cloud.

It has expanded partnerships as well, including with private cloud company Eucalyptus, allowing customers to create hybrid clouds that span their own data center and Amazon's cloud. Amazon has also forged new agreements with BMC and F5, which add on top of the robust marketplace of software applications that are already available on Amazon's cloud. More partnerships expected into the future could push Amazon further into the enterprise market.

Rackspace

Behind Amazon, the rest of the market could be described as "everyone else," but there are some leading candidates to take on Amazon in the cloud and one of the strongest is Rackspace. Powered by the OpenStack cloud computing platform, Rackspace is positioning itself as the open source alternative to Amazon, and the company's executives make no shame in aiming critiques directly at its chief competitor.

Bowker, of Enterprise Strategy Group, says Rackspace has a leg up on many of its other competitors because of its history as a managed hosting and collocation provider. It's been in the enterprise business before.

Others believe that Rackspace's OpenStack involvement allows it to compete at the scale and capacity of Amazon. Rackspace is attempting to build a cloud that can scale to just about anyone's needs, says financial analyst Pat Walravens, and he believes with the OpenStack backing the size of deals that Rackspace is able to land will only continue to increase.

"If Amazon is going for scale, cost and breadth of services, Rackspace is going for its services, including what it calls its fanatical support for customers," says Forrester analyst Dave Bartoletti. "They're really trying to make the play that they're the safer enterprise choice and with OpenStack, they want to be known as the non-Amazon."

The open source aspect of Rackspace's cloud appeals to customers concerned about vendor lock-in, Bartoletti says. An open source architecture may give customers additional freedom to move workloads among OpenStack-powered clouds, although Gartner has disputed the significance of that.

One Rackspace strength is its ability to roll out the latest and greatest OpenStack features. The latest OpenStack code, for example, incorporated virtual networking capabilities, which Rackspace has since rolled out, and hopes to advance the functionality of it in the coming months.

There is a view by some though that Rackspace has married itself to OpenStack, perhaps to its own detriment. As the Gartner report on OpenStack states, OpenStack can be successful independently of Rackspace's success now that the company has ceded control of the project to a foundation. Overall, Bartoletti says Rackspace's involvement in OpenStack is positive for the company and will only help to position it as a leading alternative to Amazon.

Microsoft

Microsoft is inherently part of most conversations regarding enterprise IT, says Bowker. "I've been super impressed with the level of knowledge enterprise IT shops have with Azure," Bowker says about Microsoft's cloud platform, which he says is still maturing. "People are keeping tabs on what's going on with Microsoft, so the company really has a halo effect on any conversation we're having with clients."

And for good reason, he says. Microsoft owns a lot of back office IT operations for enterprises between Office, Exchange and SharePoint. Because of that real estate the company already has in the enterprise market, Microsoft has an opportunity to extend those customers into its cloud, Bowker says. Microsoft has been more aggressive than ever in recent months about encouraging customers and partners to join its cloud. Earlier this year the company rolled out on-demand Windows and Linux-based virtual machines and cloud storage to accompany its platform as a service as well.

Combined with the release of Windows Server 2012 and Windows System Server this year, Microsoft is also making a play for powering private clouds behind a company's firewall. That will help Microsoft craft a story for customers to have hybrid cloud deployments all powered by Microsoft and its Hyper-V virtualization software. "Amazon doesn't have as strong of a play in the hybrid cloud conversation," Bartoletti says, which - combined with Microsoft's strong relationships with a large number of enterprise IT shops - could be an advantage for the company moving forward.

Google

If anyone can compete with Amazon on scale, it's Google, says George Reese, founder of enStratus, a cloud management company. Amazon may have the largest scale in the industry, which Rackspace is attempting to match. But Reese says Google has a lot of data centers that are optimized for massive scaling, which is heavy artillery in cloud battles.

Google's play thus far has been focused on application development and hosting. It got into the game with Google App Engine, a development platform, and has since - like Microsoft - expanded into the infrastructure-as-a-service space with Google Compute Engine, giving customers an on-demand virtual machine and storage service. It also has a consumer cloud-facing service in Google Drive, seen as a competitor to Microsoft's SkyDrive.

"Google's not trying to displace Microsoft or Windows developers, nor are they necessarily trying to displace Rackspace," Barontelli says. "They're really going directly after Amazon on pricing and capacity saying 'Hey, we've got scale too.'"

But Amazon's been in the cloud game longer than Google, and both companies suffer from a lack of perceived support for users. But the strengths of Google's platform, and its activities in the startup community, could make it a viable competitor in the cloud market.

Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Windows Azure: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison and Competition

Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Windows Azure: Cloud Hosting Services Comparison and Competition 

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure are the great players in the cloud hosting market and competing with each other to provide best and cheap cloud storage and hosting services. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure are the big cloud hosting services providers in the world who have proved their worth and growing day by day. In this article we have tried to compare Amazon and Microsoft cloud services with their brief history.

It's hard to find someone who doesn't agree that Amazon Web Services is the market leader in IaaS cloud computing. The company has one of the widest breadths of cloud services - including compute, storage, networking, databases, load balancers, applications and application development platforms all delivered as a cloud service. Amazon has dropped its prices 21 times since it debuted its cloud six years ago and fairly consistently fills whatever gaps it has in the size of virtual machine instances on its platform - the company recently rolled out new high-memory instances, for example.

Amazon AWS is by far the largest provider of public cloud services and many analysts see that run continuing well into the next decade. As reported earlier, new Morgan Stanley research projected that AWS will hit $24 billion (with a B) in revenue by 2024 and poses a real threat to all legacy IT providers — companies like Oracle, HP, VMware,  IBM, SAP and — oh yeah — Microsoft.  I might quibble with the revenue figure — who can project a decade out? — but not with the fact that AWS is already starting to eat these companies’ respective lunches. If any of the top dozen IT vendors in the world aren’t worried about AWS, they should be.

Windows Azure launched three years ago, primarily as a Platform-as-a-Service, to underwhelming response at least to folks out side of Redmond, Wash. The problem was that developers, first at small startups, and increasingly at larger companies flocked to Amazon’s more granular and more basic Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities.

Amazon had a 3 year head start at that time and then it took Microsoft till April of this year to formally launch its AWS-like IaaS capabilities. When Microsoft subsequently claimed that Azure was already a $1 billion business, many (including yours truly) didn’t buy it. And a clarification of those numbers showed that $1 billion covered a lot of distinctly non-Azure-y stuff like Microsoft software sold via AWS and other cloud or hosting providers.

And in the years it took Microsoft to get its IaaS out the door, Amazon has churned out more, higher level services including things like its DynamoDB NoSQL database.

It doesn’t take a genius to see that Microsoft will respond, not only to AWS, but to an array of other upstart clouds — especially the new Google Compute Engine  including VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service. When it rolled out its IaaS services in April, Windows Azure GM Bill Hilf said the company would meet AWS pricing on all basic compute and storage y services and that Azure pricing will be uniform across all geographies and data centers — a not-so-veiled reference to Amazon’s variable pricing. Microsoft runs 8 data centers worldwide, 4 in the U.S., 2 in Europe and 2 in Asia.

Microsoft wants the world to know it is ready to go head-to-head with Amazon Web Services on both features and price.

Microsoft has claimed that its Linux and Windows Server virtual machines (VMs) on Windows Azure are now generally available and ready for deployment. These are the persistent VMs that Microsoft publicly unveiled last June, and which provide users with a way to run existing Linux and Windows Server apps in the Azure cloud without having to completely rewrite them.

Microsoft announced last year that these persistent VMs will allow users to run Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, OpenSUSE 12.1, CentOS 6.2, Ubuntu 12.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 and apps built on these Windows Server and Linux variants on Windows Azure.

Microsoft is adding Microsoft-validated instances to its VM options for common Windows applications that users may want to run on Azure, including SQL Server, SharePoint Server, BizTalk Server and Dynamics NAV.

Microsoft also is making its Azure Virtual Network technology. Windows Azure Virtual Network is designed to allow business users to extend their networks by enabling secure site-to-site IPsec VPN connectivity between the Enterprise and Windows Azure. The idea is this will allow users to better connect their hybrid on-premises and cloud set-ups.

Microsoft’s pitch is that Azure — which runs Microsoft data centers — will act in concert with outside data centers running the latest Windows Server and Systems Center releases — as a hybrid cloud that can shift workloads back and forth seamlessly.

On the pricing front, Microsoft also made a commitment to match Amazon Web Services on price for all "commodity" services, including compute, storage and bandwidth. As part of this pledge, Microsoft is reducing its general-availability pricing on VMs and cloud services by between 21 to 33 percent.

Microsoft has come into markets way late before and by dint of huge spending and iterative improvements, caught up. Internet Explorer was a pipsqueak compared to Netscape Navigator. Anyone use Navigator now? Didn’t think so. (Of course I’m not sure how many IE users there are any more either.) Still even Windows bashers have to acknowledge that Microsoft’s installed base is humongous. If it can move even a fraction of into Azure, it will be a factor.

Google's Competition with Amazon and Microsoft in Cloud Hosting and Storage Services

Google's Competition with Amazon and Microsoft in Cloud Hosting and Storage Services

Although Amazon and Microsoft are the big names in the market of cloud hosting and storage services, Google is ready to give tough competition to both of them. Google is working hard on cloud hosting services to compete with Amazon and Microsoft.

In cloud computing, dozens or even thousands of computer servers are joined to create a giant machine capable of handling many tasks at once, from storing data to running Web sites and mobile apps to tackling complicated analytical problems. Individual software developers, large companies and governments rent these services to run their operations often at a fraction of the cost of buying and managing their own machines.

It is part of Google’s dive into a business known as cloud services — renting to other businesses access to its enormous data storage and computing power, accessible by the Internet.

Google is doubling its office space near Seattle, just miles from the campuses of Amazon and Microsoft, and stepping up the hiring of engineers and others who work on cloud technology.

Amazon Web Services, or A.W.S., is far and away the leader in this area. Amazon expects that this business will eventually be as big as its retail operation.

A.W.S. is followed by Microsoft’s Windows Azure and offerings from other companies including Rackspace, Verizon, I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard.

Google says the cloud business is a new source of profit and a way to improve the Internet by providing other companies access to its sophisticated computing services.

Analysts say it is also a strategy to lure developers and businesses to use Google products instead of those of archrivals like Amazon and Microsoft.

The cloud business has become so vital to these companies because it is crucial to other businesses like mobile apps and online video and music.

Most of the apps that run on Google Android phones, for instance, are built using Amazon’s cloud, and Google would like to wrest back control. Microsoft, Amazon and Google are all competing to host online video, a booming business that relies on cloud services.

Almost every major consultancy supports Amazon. Almost every advertising agency runs on Amazon. 

Google plans a major recruiting effort to increase its Seattle-area engineering staff by as much as five times. There is already fierce competition among tech companies for talented engineers, and many of those with skills in cloud computing work at Google’s rivals in Seattle.

Google is also adding 180,000 square feet to its office in Kirkland, Wash., which together with its Seattle office already houses more than 1,000 employees, making it Google’s third largest in the country after its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and its office in New York.

The new office space will have all the requisite perks of tech businesses, where typical office cubicles and fluorescent lights are not enough. It will meet green building standards, with a solar roof and wood from recycled shipping containers. The Seattle office, on a canal, has kayaks and paddleboards for employees, and the Kirkland office uses boats for conference rooms, not to mention the office’s espresso bars, massage parlor and climbing wall.

Though the cloud business is still in its early days, Google is already late to the game.

Over the years, Google, Amazon and Microsoft had each built world-class clouds, consisting of several giant data centers in different countries, to run their own businesses — doing things like searching the Web, hosting online video, managing business software and operating an online mall. Amazon was the first to rent its data storage and computing power to outside customers when it started A.W.S. in 2004, and Microsoft and Google followed. Another company with huge data centers and computing power, Apple, does not rent its cloud.

Amazon earned $800 million from its cloud services last year, according to analyst estimates. It initially focused on start-up Web companies, but has gone on to offer features like e-mail and database search that are attractive to more mainstream corporate customers, including the InterContinental Hotels Group, Samsung and Netflix.

Microsoft started Azure to try to hold on to corporate customers that Amazon wants to pry away, and has struggled for years to adapt its business from selling individual software packages to renting software over the cloud.

Google’s cloud offerings originally tied to other Google services. But to reach a broader market, Google has followed Amazon’s lead by offering a cloud platform that works with a much broader range of services.

Google has the weakest corporate ties. It sells businesses cloud-based word processing, storage, and spreadsheet tools, but its operation is still much smaller than Microsoft’s.

It introduced the Google App Engine, for building and hosting Web and mobile apps on Google’s cloud, in 2004. The company says that 250,000 developers use it to run 1 million apps that generate up to 7.5 billion page hits a day.

In June, Google announced Compute Engine, for large-scale computing and data center access, at its annual conference for software developers, in the hope that developers and eventually big companies would use it. But nearly a year later, it is still in a test phase and not open to the public.

People who have used Google’s cloud business say it is inexpensive and capable, but lacks some features of A.W.S. Google has said its cloud services will cost about 50 percent less than competing products.

If Google wants a price war, Amazon is ready. Amazon has always been very good at making everything as low-cost as possible. 

Top and Best Cloud Web Server Hosting Service Providers List

Top and Best Cloud Web Server Hosting Service Providers List

There are a lot of cloud hosting service providers in the cloud market. We have tried to list down the top and best online cloud web server hosting service providers among hundreds of cloud hosting providers in the cloud market. We reviewed many cloud hosting providers and able to select Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, ServerPronto, VPS, Joyent, Cloudee, Hostway, SoftLayer, OpSource, Gigenet and GoGrid. 

Following is the list of top cloud web server hosting service providers which we chose:

1. Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform 'in the cloud'. These pay-as-you-use cloud computing services include Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon FPS, and others.

2. Rackspace Cloud

The Rackspace Cloud is the cloud hosting division of Rackspace, an industry leader that currently manages over 40,000 servers and devices for customers all over the world. Cloud hosting is the next iteration of hosting. So, having the leader of managed hosting behind you is not such a bad thing. 

3. ServerPronto

ServerPronto is a dedicated hosting subsidiary of Infolink, one of a few profitable Data Center Corporations in the world. From it's beginning in January 1999, Infolink served the "Value Orientated" segment of the Internet market. Not by offering a sub-standard product at a low price, but by offering a top-quality, feature rich product at an incredible price. Since the beginning Infolink has enjoyed dramatic growth while other's in the industry have suffered. 

4. VPS.NET

VPS.NET is the leader in cloud technology. VPS.NET customers have launched over 200,000 cloud servers since 2009. VPS.NET cloud servers have proven to have the flexibility to help customers develop new products, while the power to handle the rush of traffic from live television.

5. Joyent

Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, offering organizations of any size the best public and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today's demanding real-time web and mobile applications.

6. Cloudee

Cloudee.eu is a European provider of Cloud services. Cloudee offers opportunity to set up a new Cloud server in one minute. 

7. Hostway

Hostway Corporation was founded in 1998 and has been serving the infrastructure and hosting needs of small and medium sized businesses ever since. As a leader in Cloud Hosting, Managed Hosting, and Email and Applications, Hostway delivers reliable, secure, and scalable solutions to over 600,000 customers worldwide. 

8. SoftLayer

SoftLayer's comprehensive selection of storage and backup services provides multiple technologies, allowing you to select the ideal level of security, reliability, and flexibility for your environment and applications. Deploy enterprise-grade solutions including automated backup, high-availability storage, and data replication, all fully automated and accessible through SoftLayer's industry-leading customer portal and API.

9. OpSource

OpSource Cloud Pricing offers unrivaled value and flexibility with no vendor lock-in. With OpSource, you pay only for what you use. Whether you are a developer, small business or a global multi-national corporation, you'll enjoy the enterprise-class public cloud features that are included with your standard service.

10. GigeNet

Gigenet cloud provides you with the tools and support you need to offload your IT requirements so that you can focus on growing your business and boosting your bottom line. GigeNET Cloud also offers multiple locations with Cloud Servers in LA and Chicago!

11. GoGrid

GoGrid’s cloud hosting platform provides automated provisioning of infrastructure over the Internet. You can provision and scale virtual and physical servers, storage, networking, load balancing, and firewalls in real time across multiple data centers using a web-based management console or GoGrid’s API. GoGrid infrastructure is ideal if you need instant access to highly available multi-server environments. You can access and operate it using standard network protocols and IP addresses—no new technical skills or specialized equipment are required.