Terremark enters the more lower end (get the fog reference yet?) cloud computing market with their vCloud Express offering. I have always wanted to be able to use their higher end cloud, but really had no projects to offset the costs. So now we are all going to join the cloud right? Well lets take a look at costs:

Lets say we are going to build a decent Windows Server, but provide our own software and licenses.

We get 2VPUs with 2gb of ram:
$0.14 cents an hour * 24 hours * 30 days = $100.80

We just put in 120gb of storage:
$0.25 a month per gb * 120gb = $30

One Public IP:
$0.01 per hour * 24 hours * 30 days = $7.20

Internet Services (ports open to the Internet): HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP
$0.01 per hour per service * 3 services * 24 hours * 30 days = $21.60

Bandwidth of lets say 50gb
$0.17 * 50gb = $8.50

So our total would come out monthly to $168.10

So it is not the entry level cloud that I am looking for, but it is a pretty decent entry for small to midsize companies. You have to remember that your getting a pretty decent amount of redundancy and very considerable uptime protection. This is not like your dealing with a small time hosting company that is relying on other to keep them running, Terremark is their own large scale provider.

(Pulled from Terremark)