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> In fact they let you have both dedicated hosts and cloud hosts and allow dedicated and cloud hosts to talk to each other. That's not amazing at all. You do
by powertower 15y ago
> In fact they let you have both dedicated hosts and cloud hosts and allow dedicated and cloud hosts to talk to each other.
That's not amazing at all.
You do realise that a "cloud" host and a dedicated box are two exact same hardware boxes siting next to each other in a rack? One's just virtualized 10x with Xen, VMWare, KVN, etc.
- jwegan 15y agoOf course its not amazing, but it is a feature they have that would have made the transition to dedicated easier.
- powertower 15y agoBeing networked is a feature?
- jwegan 15y agoBeing in the same datacenter is a feature since it means there is extremely low latency between your dedicated and cloud machines. Sub-millisecond vs. 10s of milliseconds round trip times can make a huge difference.
- chrissnell 15y agoYou're wrong about that. The big hosting providers do not put public cloud hardware next to dedicated hardware. Public cloud hardware goes in big, homogenous racks in a specific area of the datacenter. Dedicated hardware is very mix-and-match; you have all sorts of servers and network devices racked together. Connecting the two environments is no small feat, given the VLAN limitations of most current switches.
- pbreit 15y agoWho said it was amazing? And I highly doubt that virtual and dedicated are the same boxes sitting next to each other (or even near each other).