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Originally Posted by Mike Honcho
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Hey thanks for posting a link to my site.
Like I said in my post, the cloud is not for everyone. It's not the magic bullet most people make it out to be.
At any given point, I have hundreds of servers doing various tasks from encoding video, doing distributed number-crunching, etc...
This is what the cloud is good at, short-lived resource-sucking tasks. I would have wasted a lot more money and time if I bought dedicated servers that were idle 70% of the time.
What you shouldn't do with the cloud is run any I/O intensive operations (eg database) in the cloud. Since all cloud servers are basically VM's. You are sharing disk spindles with others and you will never come close to the disk IO performance of a dedicated server.
So what most people are starting to realize is that they need to move to a hybrid solution. Part of their infrastructure runs in the cloud and mission-critical stuff runs on dedicated servers.