Comments on: Think twice before moving your hosting to cloud servers?

By: Ray Shaw

Ray Shaw — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:41:33 +0000

websiteblitz do hosting on a linux server for $10 a month and their servers are in australia at distributeit. also usually if you go from linux to squarespace you will need your website rewritten as they use .net ….i keep getting told that there is no charge for conversions but i bet it is factored in somewhere!

By: Melvin Ram

Melvin Ram — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:31:12 +0000

Ya and if you expect to be running at higher than normal demand, you can easily resize your server to be a bigger, more powerful server. That usually takes about 10-20 mins if your server doesn’t have a ton of data on it and it can sometimes happen faster. I recommend just getting a cloud server and messing around with it. It’s billed hourly so if you decide you don’t want it after 8 hrs, you’re out like a buck or something. (Slicehost though is billed daily so it’s not exactly the same.)

By: Alexia V

Alexia V — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:26:47 +0000

Ummmm… our VPS cpanel currently shows we consumed a total bandwidth about 140 GB in Dec 2009 and every month was about 100GB+ in 2009, lets consider all these are out bandwidths, so it’ll likely cost $30++ on top of the $43.80 for a 1GB RAM + 40GB storage, that makes up a total of $70++ a month..

We had bad days which we suspected it could be caused by limited resources of VPS, causing our site with some connection problems for several hours. But after a reboot of the VPS it was then back to normal. So, we are wondering if there could have been some other more hours of slowness or connection problems that we didn’t notice, which even affected the growth of traffic for the site, as we can’t monitor it for 24×7….. The move to a better host such as a cloud is definitely a better choice. $70+ a month should be a good start

By: Melvin R.

Melvin R. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:36 +0000

Actually, they recently increased their price to $150/month so excuse my outdated info. It is more expensive than a VPS but it offers auto-expanding based on demand on the websites so I wanted the extra security, mostly for the safe-guard of my clients.

Their Cloud Servers are pretty affordable too. I was using that before I moved to the Cloud Sites. For $43.80/month you can get a 1024 MB RAM & 40 GB storage server. If manual setup is your thing, it’s no big deal but I wasn’t a big fan for simple WordPress sites. I like to be able to create a new site in 2 minutes.

The deal with the bandwidth in/out is that it’s based on how much data is being transferred in and out of your server. So if you upload a 100MB to your website and then it’s is downloaded 10 times, you’ve used up 1GB of out bandwidth and 0.1GB of in bandwidth. Pretty straight forward stuff. It boils down to whether there will be a lot of data being transferred in and out of your sites. If you are transferring a lot of data, you might consider http://www.slicehost.com which is now owned by Rackspace and includes chunks of bandwidth.

By: Alexia V

Alexia V — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:57:28 +0000

Hi Melvin,

Thanks for the tips downtime about 10 minutes should be tolerable. I had once a very experience with my vps i.e. it was down for almost 5 hours And have also experienced about a 5-minute pause which could be due to VPS got rebooted…. $100/month sounds a bit more expensive. We’re now charged for $50++ per month with VPS

By: Melvin R.

Melvin R. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:20:09 +0000

Alexia,

I’m a Rackspace Cloud Sites customer. Cloud Sites did have 3 down times in the past 3 months, though 2 of those times were about 10 minutes each (which is still inexcusable) and the other was about half hour. I’m giving them one last chance and if they have another down time, I’m switching to someone else.

With that all said, I’ve been really happy with them except for the down-time, which I seriously hope they won’t have any more of. Their control panel is very simple and intuitive. I’ve had some serious traffic spikes and it was able to handle them easily. I’ve got W3 Total Cache working with my WordPress sites and it’s worked fine. I used to use SuperCache and that worked fine too. Their customer service has always been really good too, especially the live chat.

The main complaint I’ve had off them has been the downtime and as long as they’ve learned all their lessons, I’ll probably stay with them for many more years.

PS: If you plan on using their Cloud Sites offering ($100/month) for your hosting, check out this article I had submitted to them as a guest blog based on my experience with setting up many, many WordPress sites:
http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/2009/12/21/wordpress-hosting-on-rackspace-cloud-sites/

By: Alexia V

Alexia V — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:25:14 +0000

Ummm 2 times in a few months sounds kinda bad …. Btw I’ll probably have a try since RackSpace cloud offers at $11 for a start. Well, I’ll need to find out more what actually the bandwidth in and bandwidth out mean Or maybe to explore more on Amazon cloud as well

By: Cloud Facts

Cloud Facts — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:08:42 +0000

Alexia,

Cloud is overhyped and is NOT in several Datacenters. It’s in one-single Datacenter – that’s such a myth. Look at went Rackspace went down (2 times in a few months) and the cloud sites were down…

Stay on a VPS and crank up your resources if you need more.