3 January 2010
All that clouds!
Posted by Norman under: Uncategorized .
For unknown reason, there is intense racing between hosting companies to advertise the launching of their hosting clouds, I agree that hosting industry need some fresh products, but to call anything you have a “cloud” is plain fraud.
To be “Cloud” you need to able to spread your website over multiple hardwares, with full failover (High Availability), load balancing and easy to expand over more hardwares when you need more resources ..
But what really sold today is a Xen virtual dedicated server that can get more resources when need, no failover, no mulitple hardware, no HA .. simply Xen VPS.
In return, the BEST you can get is a dedicated server performance with higher price.
check my chat session with a “Cloud” provide:
- Paul: Greetings, my name is Paul. Welcome to ***** Sales. With whom am I speaking? How may I be of assistance?
- you: Paul I have a question
- you: is what you are selling is really Cloud? or its just VPS on a node?
- you: I mean .. does my instance can spread over several nodes?
- Paul: Hello, it is based on Xen, so it only is using the single node
- you: from what I see in your website and similar, the largest instance is 1 dedicated server .. why youdo not say we sell Xen VPS and you are done!