<p>I've come to love <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Amazon's EC2 service</a> and I'm looking for something similar that supports the ability to save a running Windows server image and start new instances from it.</p>

<p>I contacted <a href="http://www.gogrid.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GoGrid</a> (the feature is planned in future) and <a href="http://www.mosso.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mosso</a> (no joy)</p>

<p>Anyone know of any hosting/cloud providers that can dothis?</p>

[{'answer_id': 22467, 'author': 'ceejayoz', 'author_id': 1902010, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1902010', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Seems like dealing with licensing issues would be nightmarish for the host.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 22643, 'author': 'Mark Brackett', 'author_id': 2199, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2199', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I can't see how licensing would be any different than for a co-lo provider.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 22651, 'author': 'DrPizza', 'author_id': 2131, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2131', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>AT&amp;T\'s <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080806-atampt-has-head-in-the-clouds-with-synaptic-hosting.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Synaptic Hosting</a> allows this, though I\'m sure you\'ll pay through the nose, as it\'s "enterprise".</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 62397, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>GoGrid as announced to offer the feature this fall. Look at <a href="http://www.flexihost.co.uk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.flexihost.co.uk</a> and <a href="http://www.elastichosts.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.elastichosts.com</a> (both in the UK) as well as <a href="http://www.appnexus.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.appnexus.com</a>.</p>\n\n<p>I have heard that www.rightscale.com (it\'s kind of a nice interface to EC2 hosting) will support Windows sometime in the future.</p>\n\n<p>With a lot of manual tweaking you can already run Windows on EC2 using virtualization inside a Linux virtual machine:\n<a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/amazon_elastic_compute_cloud_qemu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.howtoforge.com/amazon_elastic_compute_cloud_qemu</a></p>\n\n<p>I have a short list of cloud hosting companies on my website:\n<a href="http://hotware.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/a-short-cloud-hosting-link-list/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://hotware.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/a-short-cloud-hosting-link-list/</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 158640, 'author': 'rupello', 'author_id': 635, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/635', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I have just received a message from Amazon to the effect that that they will be <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/windows/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">supporting Windows Server on EC2</a> this fall.</p>\n\n<p>Wahaay!!</p>\n'}]
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