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On 6/5/2011 3:32 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:
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12pt;"><span>I won't name the company because of possible
damage to the customer's relationship with the company.</span></div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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? </span></div>
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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%.<br>
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.<br>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
12pt;"><span>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>
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<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>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
12pt;"><font color="#ff007f" face="bookman old style, new
york, times, serif" size="4"><i><strong>Nancy</strong></i></font></div>
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<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>
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<hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b>
Jorge Biquez</font></div>
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</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>
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In reality , do you think is more expensive?</font><br>
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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>
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