Cloud hosting is all the rave?!

yeh i agree, cloud hosting is just an advance from where we were, my partner in carbon neutral hosting already runs one successfull web hosting business that uses older methods and servers etc, carbon neutral is all based on the clloud and i guess there is plus and negetive points to both but at the end of the day its just a step forward isnt it,,:D
 
People also need to understand the public / private cloud. For example, moving to a cloud for $30 month is in effect still shared hosting - there are many other sites & users on the same san / network (public). You could be sharing the disk I/O etc with maybe a gazillion of other people.

The real benefit is in a private cloud, where your company is utilising your own network of servers / san etc for only your OWN (and your clients) benefit.
 
I'm going to speak on this based the fact I have given the past year of my life to Cloud based hosting.

"Cloud Servers" or Cloud VPS as we call it. In a typical VPS solution you purchase a virtual machine that runs on a server with many more virtual machines. In a true cloud enviroment your VM (instance) is launched in the cloud. Sure, your instance might be running on a servers resources but the cloud knows what your instance is using and accomodates for it. What if the physical machine hosting your VPS has a kernal panic on the host? The cloud sees this and migrates you to other servers in the cloud.

That is the difference between a VPS and a cloud based VPS (or server) .. One might argue that is nothing more than "motioning" or "migrating" the server to another server. This is true unless the virtual server is running across all of the servers in the cloud to begin with. Which to be a true cloud this would be happening.

Cloud Based Hosting:

I read a user earlier compare clould hosting to clustered and load balanced hosting. They are nowhere in the same arena. Personally, my design was to launch multiple instances on to a cloud that are auto scaling and load balanced. They are looking to one central location for the content to serve. As a customers demands increase along with other customers the instances "scale up" across the cloud. In a typical clustered enviroment you have physical servers that can only do so much processing in a certain amount of time. Eventually enough customer load will saturate them.

In a true cloud there should be enough underlying infrasturcture to handle it. Even then there will be a maximum but additional servers should be added to the cloud before that happens.

I think this is enough for some more discussion to ensue. Flame away. :)

Brandon
 
I see a lot of people who think that virtualization is a cloud computing. Although the abstraction of computer resources is a part of cloud computing I would say that clustered, grid and cloud systems can be created and run successfully on physical machines only. Of course a virtualized infrastructure is easy to scale out.
 
Well, maybe price? What's a side-by-side price comparison to a dedicated Dual Xeon CPU 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM and 2TB of bandwidth, or similar? Pick any provider. :)
 
I still haven't fully understood what cloud computing really is. I'm very interseted as this is something revolutionary, im actually reading Cloud Computing for Dummies right now! :)
 
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