<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>I won't name the company because of possible damage to the customer's relationship with the company.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>As for uptime, in two months, there were two outages. That surprised me a lot.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>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.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>I get very concerned any time a hosting company says they will give me, for example, 25% of <b>a</b> 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 <i>800 MHz</i> machine to run Drupal? 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.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><span>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.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font color="#ff007f" size="4" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif"><i><strong>Nancy</strong></i></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;
"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jorge Biquez</font></div><div class="yui_3_2_0_16_130727051446077"><div id="yiv1974496242"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">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....</font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">
In reality , do you think is more expensive?</font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">
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?</font><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>