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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
Holy fucking shit those prices are out of line. With Webair tech support's stellar (LOL) track record people would be better off getting an Amazon S3 account and hiring an ala-carte system admin.
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Yea.. Good Luck with that. If you are not a server guru it's difficult to set it up. Not to mention it's not a managed solution, ours is =) Additionally, we are selling a fully redundant service with no single point of failure. Amazon's instances run on local disk on 1 node each, no redundancy. We are backing it up with an industry standard SLA, Amazon does not provide this at all, go read their SLA. Amazon is an infrastructure provider, not a managed services provider, we are not selling infrastructure.
If you know how to install and manage operating systems and web services & want to utilize their infrastructure to build out / manage / control your own redundancy, be my guest! That's a business decision you have to make.
However, in the end it may cost you more to do so.
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Originally Posted by grumpy
real cloud or three servers with a load-balancer?
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Considering we invested well over a million dollars into the first phase of it, I sure hope not!!! =)
You can read more in-depth technical info here:
http://www.webair.com/webhosting-cloud-servers.html
Here is a snapshot:
CLOUD SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE - Each Cloud host utilizes cutting edge server technology featuring dual hexacore processors, hundreds of gigabytes of ram, redundant PSUs and RAID controllers.
HA SAN DISK - Your data is stored on a fault tolerant high performance enterprise SAN. Your cloud server can take full advantage of the high speed and reliability previously gained only with expensive dedicated enterprise storage solutions. Your Cloud server's data is stored across multiple physical SAN nodes providing maximum redundancy.
HIGH AVAILABILITY - Our cloud computing infrastructure harnesses the fault tolerance of enterprise grade hypervisors to keep your cloud servers up and running without downtime! There are no single points of failure with our cloud hosting infrastructure!
DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE ENVIRONMENT - Distributed resource scheduling dynamically analyzes and adjusts computing workloads for each host to ensure that our servers are never overloaded!
UPGRADABLE TO ADDITIONAL vCPUs - Our Cloud servers allow your computing workload to be executed in parallel across multiple VCPU cores.
GUARANTEED/LIMITED MEMORY - Our Cloud servers include minimum guaranteed resources to make sure capacity is not oversold.
INSTANTLY UPGRADABLE TO HIGHER PLAN - One click upgrades allow you to change plans with the click of a button and a reboot of your cloud server.
Thanks for the post.