I've come to love Amazon's EC2 service and I'm looking for something similar that supports the ability to save a running Windows server image and start new instances from it.
I contacted GoGrid (the feature is planned in future) and Mosso (no joy)
Anyone know of any hosting/cloud providers that can dothis?
Seems like dealing with licensing issues would be nightmarish for the host.
I can't see how licensing would be any different than for a co-lo provider.
AT&T's Synaptic Hosting allows this, though I'm sure you'll pay through the nose, as it's all "enterprise" an' shit.
@Mark Brackett - A co-lo facility isn't running illegal installs of Windows on their server hardware.
GoGrid as announced to offer the feature this fall. Look at http://www.flexihost.co.uk and http://www.elastichosts.com (both in the UK) as well as http://www.appnexus.com.
I have heard that www.rightscale.com (it's kind of a nice interface to EC2 hosting) will support Windows sometime in the future.
With a lot of manual tweaking you can already run Windows on EC2 using virtualization inside a Linux virtual machine: http://www.howtoforge.com/amazon_elastic_compute_cloud_qemu
I have a short list of cloud hosting companies on my website: http://hotware.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/a-short-cloud-hosting-link-list/
I have just received a message from Amazon to the effect that that they will be supporting Windows Server on EC2 this fall.
Wahaay!!