Zend's PHP developer cloud

Zend Developer Cloud: Zend Server and MySQL Zend Developer Cloud is hosted on Amazon Web Services, nevertheless hides the underlying Amazon infrastructure. Register with ZDC, and you are given a "container" -- a sandbox that hosts the execution of the applications you are developing. You can think of it as a virtual system, to which is allocated memory, disk, networking, and CPU resources. Exactly, a container is permitted roughly 300MB of memory, 500MB of disk space, and about 2TB per month of network bandwidth. The CPU allocation is specified in throughput consumed by database operations -- about 200MBps.

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