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great post. I didnt know you can still use cloud if your hosted elsewhere... thanks Webair
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@webair,
do you offer canadian or EU ip addresses with your cloud servers? |
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![]() Bardman ~ yes you can use our cloud even if you are hosting elsewhere! That is one of the many benefits of out cloud hosting solutions!
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So, my test platforms are dual quad core xeons, 16 & 32gb ram, 8 sas or wd velociraptor drive array powered by an adaptec 5805 w/bbu actually installed on the SAME server. Why? Because network attached storage has overhead. Yes, even Fiber does - and guess what? 99% of hosting providers offering networked storage are not using fiber, or even 10G stuff, they are using simple gigE networking. Now granted, most of the really cool shit about Virtualisation is when you have networked storage. But for this test, I simply want to see the overhead Xen has (Xen is what powers most cloud platforms out there). With no xen, just straight up centos install a couple of bonnie runs, some dd, a little foray into iozone all showed my 8 drive array pushing just a hair under 800mb/s and about 1200 IOPS. With Xen, 1 domain setup, oodles of testing to find the best setup for performance... we get well under 400mb/s and about 400IOPS. Tell me there isn't overhead. Virtualisation is GREAT in many cases. Just not for high performance webservers, mysql servers, email servers - basically, everything that applies to "hosting" in this industry. If it did these things awesomely, cloud hosting would account for more then the 1/30-1/60th of total hosting industry revenues... Sure with a CDN, some good opcode cache, play around with memcache/whatever & a lot of monkeying around with your cms and coding you CAN make clouds work halfway decently. However, the average webmaster is not a programming wizard nor even an entry level system admin... how can they accomplish this? By hiring a third party who will charge then $100/hr? They might as well buy a monster dedicated server, get better performance, avoid cloud vendor lock-in (nasty api's!) and have a lower monthly bill! Cloud hosting is VPS hosting with a fancy billing & provisioning system. But until cloud hosting can automatically scale, automatically build out clusters or have transparent process migration like HPC stuff, then it isn't going to be a good fit for the majority of people needing hosting services. Anyways. Give clouds another year or so. The virtualisation overhead is getting less and less everyday, performance is getting closer to bare metal and thats what we want. New features are coming out pretty much weekly and it's very interesting. For now, get shared hosting or a dedicated if you need the power. VPS is great for development or if you are on a budget, want a little extra security and aren't really concerned about performance. |
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If you can pull over 25mb/s let me know. I can't. Not with softlayer, rackspace, amazon (CRAP) or even most VPS providers. Now, I am biased I suppose, being a host. But I don't push my hosting to this community, I target local business mostly. Adult needs far more bandwidth and lower cost per mbps then I can typically offer nowadays. That doesn't mean I don't work my servers to eke out every drop of performance I can though. My office does a lot of benchmarking and testing on this stuff... likely webair does more but then they have to be 10-20x larger then us ![]() |
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First of all the WEBAIR Cloud Hosting Solutions have been out for awhile now (Well over a year). It has been extremely fast, flexible, and stable, not to mention redundant. With regards to benchmarking we have easily pushed well over 100 mbps live video streaming on our smallest VPS package w/o any tweaking or crazy customization. We don't look at our Cloud offerings as a replacement solution for everyone, it has place between our other product offerings, however as we've been improving its technology and capacity its starting to make sense for more and more type of clients. As an example take a low end single dedicated server. You have multiple points of failure there. Single hard drives prone to failure, power supply motherboard, CPUs, and even RAID cards which are not the 100% reliable devices that people tend to think they are. Compare that to a VPS that may be half the price, which gives you the same guaranteed memory/CPU, sits live on MULTIPLE physical servers, each of which can fail without any impact to you, and which utilizes the cloud storage network so you can grow your capacity needs endlessly without having to worry about drives filling or failing. Now can you take a multi-gigabit load balanced setup and replace it with a few VPSes? No, but the decision is still open for optimization and increases to your infrastructure's efficiency. Thanks for your feedback LM! ![]()
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I'm growing at a point that I'll be moving onto their Cloud Storage services verrryyy soon. Even though I have multiple NASes and they are huge, I don't think I want to invest on any more of them especially when Webair already has it in place.
20,000 HD movies in different formats and sizes already online, with another 30,000 already encoded waiting to be added due to need of writing/splitting/screenshots/etc first, the amount of storage I use now is craaaaaazzzy. I wouldn't think of going anywhere else than Webair when I'm ready for it... they've been my host for years!! I push on upwards several Gbps sustained... not a glitch. If anyone is considering it, you should test it out first like they said.... it's a FREE FUKEN TRIAL, so you got nothing to lose... he he he. Peace, Ben
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The problem with cloud "storage" is that it's VERY slow for a high performance site.
Want infinite and easy to grow storage? There are your easy solutions: 1 ) Install lustre on the bare metal server. http://www.lustre.org. It's free and very easy to manage once you set the first minimal cluster to have it running. the only disadvantage is that it needs to be in the same datacenter as your web servers. This is the cheapest solution to run in the same datacenter and have a really good storage infrastructure. The top500.org most powerful clusters use that one. 2 ) Build your own cdn and have it use bare metal boxes. Make it geolocalized and to stream from the nearest server to the surfer, preferably a server into that surfer country. This is the cheapest option for websites that demand high bandwidth and low prices. We have a tube project running on such a thing burning near 500 Mbits for 0.50 ? (about $0.75) per Mbit (server included), or $350 for 500 Mbits server included in the price... and since the surfers are receiving the content from their own country it's considerably faster than any other hosting solution based on a single datacenter or running everything from one only place/country.
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Webair Cloud has been out for well over a year now and we have tested extensively prior and during this time. Cloud Storage is much faster than traditional servers. By simply comparing the number of spindles your content is being served from you can clearly see the differences in speed. With a single server or even a few drives in RAID5 you only have a few spindles at best. With Webair Cloud Storage you're being served off of hundreds of spindles!
Yes CDN is obviously going to be fastest for the end user downloading content. But we leverage Webair Cloud for CDN and our CDN sits on our Cloud as well. Feel free to contact us for FREE TRIAL ![]() |
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If you try sucking images/lots of random small files your performance goes down the drain. the top500.org refers to SUPERCOMPUTERS that do LARGE data computations and spit out tons of data and READS tons of data.
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Funny all of this arguing, basically half the people saying "clouds rock" and
the other half saying "clouds suck". Both are half right and half wrong. First, "cloud" is largely a buzzword with little meaning - it refers loosely to a wide ranging number of technologies. Anyone who makes any claim about "cloud" without getting MUCH more specific about one certain technology is talking out of their ass. Before going into detail, let me give you the quick summary - By building one of the most state of the art clouds around, we learned a lot about clouds. Here's the one and only thing most adult webmasters need to know about clouds: YOU DO NOT NEED CLOUD. NO WEB SITE NEEDS CLOUD. YOU DO NOT WANT A CLOUD. PERIOD. Secondly, and more importantly, each of these technologies that people are suddenly applying the "cloud" buzzword to has it's specific use. None are particularly useful for the typical adult site. If you need more than 8TB or so of drive space, there are a number of SAN technologies to consider. SAN is one large topic that falls under the "cloud" group. If you have less than a few TB of content, a standard RAID array is for you. You will get no benefit from a "cloud" (SAN). Instead, it will only cost you more money and hurt performance. If you DO have more than 8 TB of disk space, a SAN (cloud storage) may help you. How can I say that no web site needs a cloud, but then say that if you need to have more than 8TB of disk space a cloud may help? Because what you NEED is to store a shitload of data. If you need to store 20TB, you know it, and you won't be on GFY asking "do I need to store 20TB?" The storage is the need - the cloud may be a reasonable solution to your need, but the cloud isn't the need - it's the solution to a need you already know about. It's also likely that some other solution will be better than any new buzzwords, but the point is you'll have no doubt as to what you need - tons of storage - so you won't be blindly signing up for some cloud service without knowing why. Similarly, if you run superbowl.com you get almost zero traffic all year, then suddenly you get huge traffic for just a few days out of the year. You NEED to have a shitload of capacity only for a week, and you know it. There are lots of solutions, some of them involving stuff that is now sold as "cloud". But again you'll know what your need, or problem, is, and your trusted sysadmin will advise you on the best solution - which may or may not have anything to do with clouds. So you can stop wasting your time thinking about clouds and go take care of your business. If your current server setup is working for you, you don't need to change it. If it's not working for you, contact your sysadmin and ask about how to solve your problem - not how to waste money on a cloud or any other "solution" to a problem that you don't have.
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You miss the point entirely =) and no one is arguing this is a discussion =) Yes cloud is NOT appropriate for all situations, only specific ones, we've outlined this already, some examples of how it MAY BE HELPFUL: 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. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!! ![]()
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