Virtualization certainly has advantages, but using a private cloud means a lot of configuration, troubleshooting, and management; and you still get CPU, memory, and disk space constraints. Private Cloud feels more like traditional hosting than the silver bullet one is led to expect.… Read more
Relatively speaking, scaling web servers is the easiest part of any scalability strategy. Any number of cloud providers can give you the capability to easily add nodes to your web farm, but eventually the database is going to become a bottleneck. If you’re starting your product or service today and you expect to need significant … Read more
Before leaping head-first into the cloud, spinning up a few EC2 nodes or Azure web roles, it pays for an existing company with established servers to set up private cloud, virtualise your existing servers, spin up a second e-commerce server to prototype a multi-node solution, and sort out all the snags.… Read more