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Am 14.12.2012 11:00, schrieb Grant: |
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>> > Would everyone here be in favor of a dedicated server over a cloud |
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>> > server from a host with good cloud infrastructure? The cloud server |
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>> > concept is amazing but from what I'm reading a dedicated server at the |
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>> > same price point far outperforms it. |
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>> > |
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>> > - Grant |
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>> Last time I did the calculation, a dedicated or normal virtualized |
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>> infrastructure was more cost effective as long as you could accurately |
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>> predict the performance you need. |
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>> Cloud services only really help if you need a high dynamic range |
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>> regarding scale and performance, e.g. a service that could get a lot of |
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>> new users very fast or is only really active for short time spans. |
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> Doesn't a good cloud server also have potentially higher availability |
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> compared to dedicated? |
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> - Grant |
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I'd be grateful if anyone can point me at a well conducted study on that |
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topic. Until then I just say that my anecdotal evidence shows the |
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opposite: My cheap-ass virtual server has an uptime of 492 days with |
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only minor, previously announced network outages. During the same time, |
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Amazon EC2 had what, 3 or 4 major outages? |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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