IMO A huge benefit is being able to upsize memory and processor only when necessary. <div><br></div><div>That is not possible with a dedicated server.<br clear="all"><b><div><b><br></b></div>Ryan LeTulle</b><br><br><div>> <font color="#666666"><a href="http://twitter.com/bayousoft" target="_blank">bayousoft</a> -twitter</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:<br>
> 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.<br>
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</div>I don't see this happening ever because of the expense cost to price<br>
ratio unless you go with someone like Google or some other equally large<br>
company and then the price to income ratio will hit you big time.<br>
Really, I would suggest that your client look to dedicated servers when<br>
they can afford it. The two dedicated servers can be cloud enabled for<br>
their use.<br>
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The benefit of cloud for the lessor priced hosting providers is to<br>
themselves. They don't have to work as hard to provide you with the<br>
same services and can propagate the work via cloud technology to other<br>
equipment when one becomes overloaded. It is also a name thrower for<br>
clout advertising. Everyone must do as they're neighbor does kind of<br>
thing. It's new, and sounds exciting so I must have it which makes it<br>
misused and abused.<br>
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