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Originally Posted by facialfreak
Actually the exact opposite is the case - if you go with a company that KNOWS how to properly do VPS ...
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FF,
Agreed!
Let me ask you though, how many IOPs can your VPS handle? What do you cap it at? I'm assuming from your post that's using local storage, NOT a SAN correct? If so then i would have to say there is no more redundancy in that scenario than with a dedicated server with a RAID set. A true 'cloud' server is not going to have any single points of failure. Not a bad thing mind you & probably more redundant than most providers.
However, by using shared storage (most likely SAN) residing in a clustered environment, where any single physical server goes down, there is no loss of service to your cloud instance (as with the Webair cloud). The definition of 'cloud' can be very vague, and many providers capitalize on that to their advantage. We make very clear what our implementation of 'cloud servers' are.
Specifically... A Webair cloud server has 0 single points of failure. SAN storage, cluster of multiple physical nodes setup as N+2, network redundancy, power redundancy, and the ability to scale horizontally quickly and easily. Furthermore, with our FusionCloud, we REALLY do provide a cloud server that can do more than a physical dedicated server.