Cloud Hosting Vs Dedicated Server

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what are the benefits / differences? as i understand Dedicated can handle pretty much any thing and its expensive, cloud is cheaper and it can handle pretty much anything as it grows,

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i have a product launch expecting 50K viistors on launch days, tryin to figure out which to choose,
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  • I've been doing a lot of research into cloud options. For me, the biggest advantage of Cloud vs dedicated is the ability to manage high volume bursts of traffic dynamically. The cloud services seem to be maturing nicely.

    I'd be interested to hear from anyone with actual experience.

    Amazon EC2 is the service that has piqued my interest the most.
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    • Until it become popular I am not moving my sites to cloud hosting servers. I like to hold my applications and content under my own environment rather than a common server area.

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  • I have used a Dedicated server for a long time now, some say its expensive at £249 plus VAT per month however I say its worthwhile because I can get detailed stats on everything, I have no one else sharing my server and much much more
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  • Did research on Cloud vs. Dedicated a month ago to come to bottom of issue because "Cloud" is being increasingly mentioned.

    In summary:

    I see NO benefit of ever going for cloud hosting. It has absolutely **NO** advantages over dedicated hosting. Keep reading to see why...

    Cloud somehow become sexy and the uninformed are gladly using it now. Not realizing you can get world-class, top-range, holy-cow-fast! dedicated server for $80 p/m from www.leaseweb.com. (80% of Europes traffic goes through LeaseWeb which is located in Netherlands). I'm renting at Leaseweb.

    The informed know that cloud is another fancy way of saying: "Hey, come use a cloud... but please don't find out that you really don't need it since dedicated server kicks clouds ass anyday!".

    So what about the load balancing that cloud promises?

    Clouds main advantage is they spread your "insane" product launch or "I'm on 1st page of digg!" traffic across multiple computers, hence site continues running as normal.

    Is this the case with dedicated?

    No! Not with todays ultra-powerful dedicated server specs. (See leaseweb.com and pretty much any Quad-core can easily handle those massive traffic bursts.)

    I've been on digg 1st page several times. And Xeon Quad-Core easily handled it. Yes, it did slow down by 50%. But then again... my dedicated server is from 2009. Now a equally priced server is at least 2x more powerful.

    In overall: You will have no problems with this, unless you don't have a video load for the traffic bursts. Put your video on Amazon S3. Else you'll stall your server no matter how powerful it is. (So yes, there are exceptions to this. Video/big flash files are the problem. Images are NOT.)

    So when do I use a cloud?

    When you think of becoming the next Facebook or YouTube or MediaFire. AKA: when you know you'll be serving that many files per second. :-)
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