Amazon’s EC2 has captured a lot of attention from technology folks. It looks great, but it’s not quite perfect for hosting web sites because it lacks dedicated IPs/DNS and persistent storage. In other words, it’s hard to start a website like FatMixx hosted on an EC2 instance.

Through some random conversations today, mostly around dynamic DNS services like dyndns.com to mask the EC2 IP address uncertainty, I learned about Mosso, a hosting provider whose model looks a lot like Amazon’s. It’s more limited in terms of the control you have (Amazon gives you a running instance with a shell and root access), but includes more traditional features like disk storage and database servers.

Just thought I’d pass it on. Grid providers like EC2 and Mosso are the wave of the future, I think, and a far better way to manage a startup infrastructure than dedicated or expensive managed hosting.