Pardon Our Dust, We’re in the Cloud
by Markus Robinson
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.
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jbrotherlove says:
Congratulations on finding a hosting solution to fit the needs of Black Web 2.0 I'd be very interested to read your experience with Mosso. I like their marketing and promises. But I'm wary of making a financial commitment. Also, is it me or is something wonky going on with your Disqus implementation? My login doesn't stick.
Markus Robinson says:
Which login? The Disqus login or your Facebook login?
Kamau says:
Congrats. I been using Amazons S3 cloud service for a while now and it's great and cheap which is the important part at least to me.
Markus Robinson says:
Inexpensive is very important to us too. We haven't gotten our first bill yet, we expect it to be under our old hosting costs. The more money we can reinvest into Black Web 2.0 the better.
rcollazo says:
Welcome to the Rackspace Cloud! Please let us know if we can help in any way.
jbrotherlove says:
After logging into Disqus, it returns me to the comments and asks me to “Register with DISQUS”. I have to fill out “Guest” each time.