Comparison with traditional web clustering

We have documented the differences between Hybrid Web Cluster and a number of existing technologies for load-balancing, scalability and management of hosting environments:

• Comparison of Hybrid Web Cluster to Microsoft Network Load Balancer
• Comparison of Hybrid Web Cluster to Hardware Load Balancing
• Comparison of Hybrid Web Cluster to a Network Attached Storage device

Comparison with other cloud platforms

Cloud Infrastructure providers like Amazon EC2 and Rackspace Cloud Servers are insanely complicated for most people. They give you the nuts and bolts and tell you to build the car yourself.

On the other hand, Cloud Platforms such as Rackspace Cloud Sites or GoGrid take away control and don’t give you real access to the servers you’re paying for.

Hybrid Web Cluster is the best of both worlds, providing the flexibility of “cloud servers” with the simplicity of “cloud sites”, all running on your hardware, or across several independent cloud vendors.