[support] Cloud pricing estimates

[Afan Pasalic]

On 6/5/2011 3:32 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:
> I won't name the company because of possible damage to the customer's 
> relationship with the company.
>
> As for uptime, in two months, there were two outages. That surprised 
> me a lot.
>
> There should be advantages in reliability (uptime) and scalability 
> (many servers) and speed (geographic diversity). I can't say that I 
> have seen any evidence in my minimal exposure that any of that 
> actually happens.
>
> I get very concerned any time a hosting company says they will give 
> me, for example, 25% of *a* CPU. For easy arithmetic, let's say the 
> server runs a 3.2 GHz CPU. One fourth of that is 800 MHz; would you 
> buy an /800 MHz/ machine to run Drupal?
as far as I know it doesn't work that way. 25% of CPU means 25% of the 
processing time belongs to you. even somebody on the same machine runs 
heavy report it will never take a 1% of yours 25%.
also, I believe, if other sites are on "low ride", and you run some 
heavy stuff - you'll be able to boost to even 50% of CPU.




> Most current laptops are much faster than that, and my 7 year old 
> desktop is faster still, and Drupal can be slow on it. The same is 
> true of VPS's too.
>
> There is a lot of promise in the cloud and the technology is maturing 
> every day, but I think the hosting companies need to mature with it. 
> With quad-cores, and larger, fueling the cloud there simply is no need 
> to offer a fraction of a CPU.
> /*Nancy*/
>
> Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. 
> King, Jr.
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Jorge Biquez
>
>     Do you see it is really an advantage , actually to use it? I sure
>     think that maybe you could have a better uptime on the servers
>     since are several behind, but you can have that if you have a
>     cluster of them....
>
>     In reality , do you think is more expensive?
>
>     WITHOUT telling the name of the company you have not good
>     experience. It is not a matter of damage their name.... what are
>     the reasons that make you think they are not an option?
>
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