Ignoring every about the product, the "Go Ahead. Sign Up for the Public Beta" caption on the sign up button seems like it's taunting or threatening me.
Odd that CDN billing is based on "billing address" not the location of their CDN nodes you want to use. For what reason does a person in India pay 4 times as much for CDN as a person in USA?
The IP part is not correct - on hpcloud you can assign any number of IPs to a server. I'm not sure if ec2 interface supports it, but openstack one definitely does.
But a shared block storage? You mean a read-only one? Otherwise it's a bit difficult to synchronise access in any useful way. I don't know of any FS that could handle a shared RW block storage.
I thought you meant something else (transparent mounting of the device with synchronisation done by the provider).
To be honest, I don't know if openstack implementation supports block device sharing at the moment, but there's definitely an open possibility (from the api response fragment): `"attachments": [],` - it's an array for a reason ;) I'd recommend actually checking before you say it's not there...
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OpenStack (which HPCloud is based on) has a long way to go, but I think this is a promising (if overdue) start.
If you want to play with OpenStack for free I can recommend https://trystack.org/
But a shared block storage? You mean a read-only one? Otherwise it's a bit difficult to synchronise access in any useful way. I don't know of any FS that could handle a shared RW block storage.
To be honest, I don't know if openstack implementation supports block device sharing at the moment, but there's definitely an open possibility (from the api response fragment): `"attachments": [],` - it's an array for a reason ;) I'd recommend actually checking before you say it's not there...