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The cloud is a vehicle for hourly billing and instant provisioning. If you are not actively using either of those features, you should look into dedicated or c
by DanBlake 16y ago
The cloud is a vehicle for hourly billing and instant provisioning.
If you are not actively using either of those features, you should look into dedicated or colo. Now.
On every other front besides billing/provisioning, it will lose to dedicated: Speed, Price, Performance, Server Specs and control.
The cloud should be used to handle unexpected workload or random jobs only. If you are running your 50x database cluster on ec2 for 100% of the month, you are doing it wrong.
- andrewvc 16y agoEh, the other thing is dealing with hardware failures is easier on the cloud since you have instant provisioning. At small scale this is worth a lot.
- dangrossman 16y agoThere's a good selection of dedicated hosting providers that provision physical servers in an hour or less. Softlayer has diagnosed and replaced failed hardware in my servers in under an hour a few times. If you take care of your own backups and configuration automation, then the advantage tips back to dedicated servers at small scale.