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Originally Posted by tetsuo001100
i think we're all getting a few things mixed up here, cloud "hosting" vs cloud servers. i'm not sure about cloud hosting, as it's not something i've ever entertained a thought for, same as shared hosting.
however cloud servers are just like VPS servers in which its a rooted server you control. your "virtual" cloud server may be split between several physical servers, but you are in complete control over what software is on it and gets put on it.
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Exactly..there are may uses for "cloud hosting" and may uses for "cloud
storage" alike. It all depends upon your unique setup. We offer MULTIPLE
CLOUD BASED SERVICES. Some are storage based only, so you can still
utilize your existing physical servers/assests, and some allow you to
consolidate your physical servers to cloud computing and cut costs while
gaining redudancy.
One instance in particular that has been very popular service for us is
our
CLOUD STORAGE SOLUTION. This is a service that can be used
NO MATTER WHERE YOU HOST. Some advantages are:
1) Endless storage - you never have to worry about adding more disk drives, having to take servers down for storage upgrades, etc. The cloud will look like its 100+TB to your machine.
2) Drive failures - never have to be down again because a critical drive that holds your content has failed or have to wait for backups to be restored, etc.
3) Additional redundancy - if a drive fails in one of our storage servers, or even if a group of the servers fail there is no outage for you. In fact you wouldn't even notice any issue. We take care of all of this on the backend. If you have a single content server or NAS/SAN today, you have a single point of failure. Our cloud totally eliminates that and the need to pay for a redundant box that does nothing until the primary fails. Your server/cluster will have 2 redundant connections to the cloud which are either gigabit or 10gigabit.
4) Speed - you're only going to get so much speed out of 1 drive in your server, or even a raid5 with 5-10 drive, its pure physics based on the spindle speed of the drives. With our cloud storage you benefit from having literally hundreds of spindles serving up your content. There is also a huge amount of cache which would be returning your
content without even having to reach the spindles. Our clusters are currently pushing 30+Gbps of content and are expandable to 500+Gbps. This will increase the life and use you'll get out of your server by not having to upgrade it prematurely because of i/o bottlenecks.
5) Backups - our cloud storage includes built in snapshots. By default we take daily snapshots and keep them for a week. You can access these snapshots directly via FTP or SSH, see exactly how ALL your content looked each day for the last 7 days and simply copy any files you need to your life file system. We also fully backup the clouds to secondary clusters as well. You can customize your snapshot frequency and retention yourself as well.
6) Cost - You only pay for what you use. Why buy a server with 2TB of storage because you think you may need it in 6 months or a year? You'll be paying for all that extra storage for months! With our cloud storage you only pay for what you use and you can scale to unlimited storage without any growing pains.