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Originally Posted by orgeebee
For me at least, the jury's still out on that one. I'm running on both right now (physical and cloud).
So far the cloud is experimental for me. One thing with cloud vs Wowza streaming is that the disk IO requirements for high-traffic Wowza steaming can very easily overwhelm the shared storage that clouds typically use. Unless you spend big bucks on a really high-end environment (Cisco UCS + NetApp for example).
Anyway, must my first thoughts so far..
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Actually the exact opposite is the case - if you go with a company that KNOWS how to properly do VPS ...
All of our VPS servers are running 6-disk RAID10, and are able to handle several times the disk I/O than a dedicated server with software RAID or RAID0/1 ...
VPS technology has vastly improved in the past 3+ years, and we have seen many clients previously on dedicated servers that have switched to VPSes - as a cost-effective way to increase disk I/O and data redundancy - as RAID10 is almost "self healing" ... it senses problems with any one of the disks in the array, and notifies the system administrator so that the faulty disk can be hot-swapped out of the array - without any loss of data or performance - and the system will automatically comb and format the newly replaced disk during system idle time, without any intervention ...