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Engine Yard vs Microsoft Hyper-V Server

A side-by-side look at Engine Yard and Microsoft Hyper-V Server. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Engine Yard

Engine Yard

Development

Engine Yard is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides automated cloud hosting, management, and scaling for Ruby on Rails and PHP applications. It handles provisioning, configuring, monitoring, patching, and managing servers and applications in the cloud.

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft Hyper-V Server

System & Hardware

Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a free, standalone product that provides a hypervisor-based virtualization platform for running virtual machines on x64 Windows servers. It has a small footprint and basic management tools.

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