Server Issues...

[blackcatgrowl]

It will be great in the next 10 years, when everything will be solid state and drive failures become a rarity.

[CLTPanther]

The cloud is fine, don't listen to these fools. In fact, not only can you go on a cloud, you can opt to buy a resource pool (vcpu, disk, etc) that will handle a "normal" load, then during peaks, you can have the cloud system handle the spikes and you only pay marginal costs for the spikes. Pretty flexible and cost effective.

[Zod]

Is it like a shared server, if so no thanks. Did that years ago, won't ever again.

[Mother Grabber]

Ugh, don't trust the cloud, if you have the ability to keep your own hardware do so.

What are you, living in the 90s? Embrace technology.

[Floppin]

I like to be in control of my own hardware's reliability thank you very much. The cloud is really only good for companies that want to dump overhead. I understand the pro's of the system, but it also has many flaws not to mention security and data risks, and like I said, I don't want to rely on someone else's IT department to fix their poo when it goes down and stops my business dead in it's tracks.

[Scrumtrilescent]

I can give you some space in one of our DDN racks.

[Jbro]

I hear geocities is good and you get 10 free pages plus 2 mbs a month upload. Carolinahuddle.geocities.com/forum/Index.html has a nice ring to it.

[CLTPanther]

I'm not talking about a rinky dink shared system with no failover. I mean a fully enterprise vblock design with a geographically dispersed failover site.

[Mother Grabber]

I like to be in control of my own hardware's reliability thank you very much. The cloud is really only good for companies that want to dump overhead. I understand the pro's of the system, but it also has many flaws not to mention security and data risks, and like I said, I don't want to rely on someone else's IT department to fix their poo when it goes down and stops my business dead in it's tracks.

Do you really think that your own hardware is more reliable than Amazon's cloud? Plus, 'someone else's IT dept' doesn't have to sleep or take a break to watch the Panthers game. Someone is always there to fix their poo, so you don't have to be. I'd love to see an individual who can guarantee 5 9s of reliability.

[Panthro]

I offer 9 5's

[CLTPanther]

Some people are just like that. It's easier to sell cloud in the SMB market (which I'm sure he is really in) than it is to enterprise clients. But you're right, if these little shops think they have more knowledge, deeper pockets, and more reliable infrastructure than companies that specialize in it, I'm glad I don't work in their IT depts

[Chaos]

Whatever protects us from another chernobyl meltdown of teh huddle, I'm all for it. Thanks for keeping the lights on.

[The Saltman]

CLT turns me on with all this technical talk.

[CLTPanther]

That's just your sexual confusion