Hosted Cloud Platforms - Any Opinions?

[rockits]

Just doing a load of research, testing and work on Hosted 3CX systems sitting on hosted cloud vm's. We have used 3CX on-premise for years but after 3CX released a hosted/annual product just looking at all the options to find the best option we will commit to for customers.

Anyone done any of this or anything similar and can offer any opinions? 3CX support:
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services
Azure
1&1
OVH

We have used all of these over the years and I guess the obvious choices will be Google or Amazon. Been doing some testing on Google and it is pretty slick and easy enough. Currently have set up a few gmail accounts with free $300 credits to play with.

3CX have a deployment process for these supported providers and it makes a new deployment very quick & easy. Just need to get my head around initial & ongoing costs as with anything like this it seems a minefield. 3CX is quite light so have a 1 CPU VM with 3.75GB ram & 10gb HD at mo.

No idea what the hourly/monthly costs are....any ideas? Anybody have any preferences or good/bad things to say about any of these providers in their experience?

 

[CatmanV2]

It's not the silver bullet.....

FWIW we are heavily into Azure and it works mostly. We also have enterprise support which may be something you can't access, but makes my life easier.

C

 

[MrMickS]

Only have experience of AWS. It works and is reliable (mostly).

Costs vary wildly depending on which 'region' you host in.

You can reduce your server costs by committing to 1/2/3 year rental, though that ties you to a specific size of host. These can get pretty good discount though so at least a 1 year commitment is worth it. The one cost that catches most people out is data transfer fees in and out of the platform. They aren't particularly large, just need to be taken account of.

On AWS in Ireland you'd be look at a t3.medium for that size of server which works out at $1.5/day or so. Or you can get that down to $23.72/month with a 1 year commitment and no upfront payment.