What do you really expect from a cloud service ?
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RDOServers
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My biggest problem with "Cloud" hosting providers, is how many of them offer regular shared hosting, and call it cloud hosting!
"What do you really expect from a cloud service?"
I expect it to be truly cloud based hosting. Converged infrastructure, spread across multiple machines, in multiple locations.
"What do you really expect from a cloud service?"
I expect it to be truly cloud based hosting. Converged infrastructure, spread across multiple machines, in multiple locations.
Well said, some company in Taiwan even named vps as cloud hosting.
Mera Hosting
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It's pretty common unfortunately that people name their services wrong..
The true meaning of the term refers to the concept of accessing data and applications over the web/internet instead of on the desktop. When I first started hosting and offered Office 2003 over the web it was known as ASP - Application Service Provider. It didn't gain much traction due to most people were using dialup to access internet. But I was the only host offering FrontPage as an online site builder
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What does it mean to me? It means true scalability and next to no downtime. I have found a lot of providers offer products where you can't edit disk space without deleting a virtual machine....can't truly scale depending on our needs.
Lots of gotchas still in the cloud arena, if you ask me....You don't find out about it until you try and edit the disk space, and can't.
Some allow you to edit the disk space in Linux but not Windows, for example. How does that make sense?
Lots of gotchas still in the cloud arena, if you ask me....You don't find out about it until you try and edit the disk space, and can't.
Some allow you to edit the disk space in Linux but not Windows, for example. How does that make sense?
I think increase should be fine but not if you want to decrease size since it will cause data loss.
Leasedlayer.com
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According to me all the features are important for a customer who is looking for cloud VPS,, priority wise he can go either price, network features, dedicated resources, scalability & simplicity.
24x7server
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Hi,
There is a lot of misconception on this. When someone say Cloud, they refer the data should be accessed from anywhere anytime as needed, and having stick to it, some of them say, my website has data and it can be accessed from anywhere anytime, so its a cloud.
The term cloud is a very huge and has many meanings defined by everyone in their own way. To me Cloud, would not be focused only on one service. One part of it is, deployment of application in a cloud where it can be utilized and accessed anytime, anywhere as per need, like a services deployed in the Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, etc.).
There is a lot of misconception on this. When someone say Cloud, they refer the data should be accessed from anywhere anytime as needed, and having stick to it, some of them say, my website has data and it can be accessed from anywhere anytime, so its a cloud.
The term cloud is a very huge and has many meanings defined by everyone in their own way. To me Cloud, would not be focused only on one service. One part of it is, deployment of application in a cloud where it can be utilized and accessed anytime, anywhere as per need, like a services deployed in the Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, etc.).
cheapdedicated
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Well said. Riding on the ignorance of the customers to full them into buying regular shared hosting believing its a cloud service is spread all over the Internet these days.
However, "Converged infrastructure, spread across multiple machines, in multiple locations" has been around long before "cloud hosting." In that sense it is as "true cloud" as a vps. Your configuration hasn't been as commoditized as vps and thus the illusion its something new and different and is "true cloud." Prior the the new pacakaging, it was called "redundancy," "mirroring," etc and other general and technical terms -- in other words it was called what it really is. haha
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cheapdedicated
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Problem is some hosts do not have any "mirror" etc as you call it but continue to say they are selling Cloud hosting. That's the "untrue cloud" being referred to hahahah
Its not any more untrue than the other. Any application or service that is accessed via the internet instead of a desktop can be called cloud The term comes from the symbol in network diagrams and was recently discovered by marketing departments. The marketing angle is to give the impression that the thing being called "cloud" is something new and different
For example, as I mentioned earlier, back in the early and mid 2000s I used to offer Microsoft Office via terminal services to my customers. Today that would be a cloud service, but I'd still be using the same technology. Similarly for a web application. Replace your local gui app with your browser over the internst and you are in the cloud.
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cheapdedicated
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That is where honesty is judged. When you know the context in which the client understands "Cloud" but you decide to hide behind the technicality of the term well aware of what the client is looking for and knowing that is actually not what you are selling but can come up with a technical work around then you are plain black and white DISHONEST
cheapdedicated
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However slight the difference, If you know what the client is asking for ( cloud as its currently branded) and you choose not to declare to them that you do not offer what they are asking for before convincing them to take (something similar) what you have then you are being DISHONEST in my opinion and that is bad.
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