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By: HGFAN

HGFAN — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:51:25 +0000

Thanks for the great article , i’ve done a research on cloud computing last year for college and i see cloud hosting is the solution for all the web problems now and also the cloud computing concept is the solution for many many IT problems around the world ..

By: Ramses

Ramses — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:16:57 +0000

Hi Greg, after reading your post I played around with the Pingdom Tools and surprisingly most of my Shared Hosting websites with comparable “file” size (around 200-300kb frontpages) load as fast as yours does.

All my websites/blogs are created with Thesis 1.5.1 (1.6 and 1.7 are also in the game sometimes) and I am asking myself right now if and how I would benefit from Cloud Hosting at all!?

I’m going to go through some more test though as I believe it also has to do with the daytime I try to access websites…

I do also believe that my websites are loading fast enough because they are mostly pretty small ones

Conclusio: Interesting post with some futuristic (yet-to-come-to-a-broader-audience) ideas. Cloud Computing is for sure going to be the winner in a few years!

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By: Greg Rickaby

Greg Rickaby — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:11:23 +0000

Love it Charles! You’re comment is a great reminder to always do your research no matter what type of hosting you are looking for. Make sure the provider and their services jive with your needs.

The A to B test above is two WordPress sites running the Thesis theme with very similar customized code. I did try and find two very comparable sites to compare on the different hosts.

As I said, I’m a fan of Hostgator too! No problems with them at all.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:43:06 +0000

While CDN are completely understandable for large sites, the cost of Cloud versus a quality host is questionable at best. While I haven’t personally used Hostgator the reality is your dedicated hosting provider should be able to scale to your needs… The catch is simple, “Dedicated” host versus “Shared” host, that is the biggest difference! Many people don’t realize that most $19.95 monthly for A,B,C hosting is shared or virtual dedicated (which is shared) with hundreds of other sites, thus the server/network gets slow during spikes. The reality is that even a cloud host can get slowed down if they don’t have a well connected or proper network. Something you need to ask a Cloud host is how many server and where are they located? Ten servers around the world isn’t on par with Amazon who has a couple of thousand servers, located all over the world. The fear that I see is hosting companies offering “cloud hosting” based on the fact that they have one server in New York and one in LA. and then charge a hourly, processing or data fee which is going to MUCH more then simply having a Dedicated server connected to a backbone, which will scale to most sites.

If your server is being slow and it’s not a network issue (have you properly tested for that?), then you need to look at your app running and figure out what is causing all of the processing power to be used. Quality programming makes a HUGE difference, period. If it’s not a processor issue, it might simply be a network setting, check check check. Remember, unless you are serving 50-100,000 UNIQUE users per day, your server can handle it! Serving Video/Audio then do it properly and stream it with a replicating (repeater) server to take the load off your main server. Akamai has third parties that piggy back on their network who only serve Video/Audio at a VERY affordable cost.

As for the test above, sorry but you can’t compare A with B, are they the exact same programs line for line? What about type of traffic; site A is text and site B Audio? How many sites are hosted on your server at Hostgator, how many on your VPN cloud servers? To many variables to provide a graphic as if it was scientific, sorry but this is going to get those hosting company offering cloud simply to get more money.

Just my input,
Charles

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