How many people here are using the cloud for the computing services?
Are you happy with it or do you hate it?:angryfire:
Are you happy with it or do you hate it?:angryfire:
Cloud Hosting ?
- Thread starter JD@Gigenet
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I was wondering the exact same thing, on paper it seems like a great solution, instant scalability and on-demand payment only. If you search around on the website a lot of people are fairly happy with the cloud server solutions [1] [2]
Also whats worth checking out are the reviews on Web Hosting Talk
I'm in the process of figuring out how much bandwidth I'll be pulling a month and I figure if I were to launch a massive campaign that the ability to scale up would be useful.
Also whats worth checking out are the reviews on Web Hosting Talk
I'm in the process of figuring out how much bandwidth I'll be pulling a month and I figure if I were to launch a massive campaign that the ability to scale up would be useful.
I had a client who used Amazon's cloud service to host a webstore. They also uploaded their accounting softwares DB there because they didnt want to spend that much on a real server.
The first month they used the smallest service (1.7Gb RAM, 1 processing unit, 160Gb), dropped $87 into it and the performance rolled off pretty steeply as we populated the SQL..
The following month we upgraded the service to the "Large" service (7.5Gb, 4 processing units, 850Gb space) which was the next step up. It solved the SQL & memory issues, and jacked the price up to $345 a month. At which point they could have been renting a dedicated server for cheaper.
I'd go dedicated over a cloud.
The first month they used the smallest service (1.7Gb RAM, 1 processing unit, 160Gb), dropped $87 into it and the performance rolled off pretty steeply as we populated the SQL..
The following month we upgraded the service to the "Large" service (7.5Gb, 4 processing units, 850Gb space) which was the next step up. It solved the SQL & memory issues, and jacked the price up to $345 a month. At which point they could have been renting a dedicated server for cheaper.
I'd go dedicated over a cloud.
Again, you can't answer that question like that. It depends on case by case basis. If you are predicting to have spikes, either it's seasonal, or maybe just getting digg'ed or whatnot, or even if you do huge mail drops once in a while, it's easier and cheaper to scale with a cloud based solution, of course if it was built right in the first place.
With the cloud based solution you can add replicated servers on the fly so to speak and boost the performance. When you don't need them anymore, when the traffic had died down, then simply kill them and don't pay for them anymore. Not an easy thing to do with a dedi server.
An example scenario may be where you have front end cache servers running nginx, maybe a couple of database servers for the backend. Here is a great article from Rackspace:
Deploying Drupal in the Cloud with Nginx and Boost | Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting
With the cloud based solution you can add replicated servers on the fly so to speak and boost the performance. When you don't need them anymore, when the traffic had died down, then simply kill them and don't pay for them anymore. Not an easy thing to do with a dedi server.
An example scenario may be where you have front end cache servers running nginx, maybe a couple of database servers for the backend. Here is a great article from Rackspace:
Deploying Drupal in the Cloud with Nginx and Boost | Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting
You picked one of the most expensive cloud hosts and now you're bitching about the price?