Pardon Our Dust, We’re in the Cloud

After a long and hard period of trying to figure out which hosting environment would be the best for us at this stage we’ve made the decision to take a leap into the cloud. Cloud Servers are the latest craze and allow websites and applications to scale when load gets usually high. Over the last 2 months you may have noticed our site was down due to  issues with servers/services crashing because of a sporatic spike in load. Since this load isn’t typical,  we needed a solution that was managed, but would allow us to accommodate the extra traffic when and if we needed it. We were on a Virtual Private Server and had hit the point where we had outgrown our VPS, but acquiring our own dedicated server was overkill. In addition to those options we also look at  VPS solutions that offered burstable RAM. We even took the time out to play around with a full Cloud Server however found that it would require too much maintenance since it wasn’t managed. We found a pretty good compromise with Mosso’s Cloud Site and are looking forward to taking it for a test drive starting today. So if you see something that just don’t look right or notice somethings are broken (we know search is broken right now and are working on fixing it) then feel free to let us know.

You can learn more about The Cloud and Cloud Computing on Wikipedia.