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Originally Posted by Adam X
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How safe/secure is site data if its spread across so many hard drives with everyone elses data?
How much i/o can webairs offering stand before it buckles? I will talk to support personally but for this thread lets see some responses based on experience.
Can I run FMS (flash media server) on a cloud linux box with an alexa ranking of 200? basically shit-tons of traffic and loads of people viewing cams.. imagine streamate or MFC. Yay, Nay?
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Data will be much safer spread across multiple drives. Redundancy is never a bad thing. Security is as good as a dedicated server. Your storage will look and behave like a regular dedicated drive.
Every host is different on I/O. I've heard of people getting dropped from big hosts who are notorious for overselling (not naming names but their name rhymes with yo baddie) for doing basic MySQL queries or serving lots of images thus raising their I/O. Other more reliable VPS providers won't TOS you unless you're doing something that really causes trouble. For instance, Linode will send out a warning if your I/O gets too high for a given period. You need to correct it ASAP or you run the risk of getting the boot. If your node starts swapping or really thrashing the drive for some reason they will shut you down to protect the other customers on the same server.
True cloud providers like amazon will charge you for both allocated space and I/O. They don't care if you get crazy with the I/O but to keep your costs low it would be wise to keep your I/O in check.
As for streaming, I have no idea how it all works. I have zero experience with streaming. Doesn't FMS require a lot of ram? I can't see any reason for you to move to a VPS honestly. I'd stick to true dedicated servers. You can flog your servers as hard as you want and nobody is going to yell at you.