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		<title>What is a compute cycle at Mosso?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently opened an account in Mosso (www.mosso.com, part ofwww. rackspace.com) to host my sites.  Indeed it is more expensive than other options.  I pay $100 a month, and in similar services I could get something similar for $10 a month. (Similar services at least offer roughly same amount of space, unlimited sites, many GB [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently opened an account in Mosso (www.mosso.com, part ofwww. rackspace.com) to host my sites.  Indeed it is more expensive than other options.  I pay $100 a month, and in similar services I could get something similar for $10 a month. (Similar services at least offer roughly same amount of space, unlimited sites, many GB of bandwidth)</p>
<p>So why I am paying 10x more.  Well, for starters I am in the process of creating an app that I hope/dream will grow and I need the stability, scalability and performance of Mosso.  That is one reason, the other is that they offer a customer service like I haven&#8217;t seen anywhere else.  Email, knowledge base, forum you can get anywhere.  But with Mosso I have a problem, I log in, click on live help and in snap I have someone helping me.  Maybe not worth the full 10x difference, however it definitively pays.  </p>
<p>They offer more services that no one else does, like billing your customers, and best of all you get 50 GB space (which is a lot for asp net sites) and 500GB of transfer.  Quite a bit and enough for what I need now. And you pay more for what you need.</p>
<p>Of course you always look for a catch, and in this case I thought it is the compute cycle.  They offer 10,000 compute cycles. Of course I have no idea of what that is, and was afraid of ending up paying a lot more for them.  So here is what they say a compute cycle is.</p>
<p>Compute cycle: Compute cycles measure how much processing time your applications require on the Cloud Sites. Using 10,000 compute cycles in a month is roughly equivalent to running a server with a 2.8 GHz modern processor for the same period of time.</p>
<p>You can read it here <a href="http://help.mosso.com/article.php?id=268">http://help.mosso.com/article.php?id=268</a></p>
<p>And then, how much is that?  They also have an estimate.</p>
<p>Mosso says the following:</p>
<li>about 2.1 million page views using a database-driven content management system</li>
<li>about 11 million page views of mosso.com</li>
<li>about 25 million requests for a static 15KB image</li>
<p><a href="http://help.mosso.com/article.php?id=269">http://help.mosso.com/article.php?id=269</a></p>
<p>Well, hope that helps</p>
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