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5 reasons to avoid Cloud VPS services

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I am up for a little rant, so here it goes.

Up until around 2010, the term “cloud computing” used to represent distributed computing power, i.e., when many generic servers are joined together to work on big computing tasks. Here are two examples:

  • Tasks requiring a LOT of CPU power
  • Storage clusters providing Petabytes of disk space

Both tasks cannot be accomplished by just multiplying the number of servers. For example, in order to build a cluster that would be able to process tons of data very fast (say, a search engine), it is not enough to whack thousands of servers into a datacenter. Someone has to build a platform (software) that would unite all these servers into one big computing machine.

Similarly, to build a large storage cluster, it is not enough to simply get hundreds of servers into a huge RAID array – it will simply not work that way. You would need something that will manage each server’s hard drive and join all storage space into one huge chunk of storage. One prominent example of a cloud storage platform is ceph. An example of a cloud storage service is dropbox. It is worth noting that neither website brags about clouds.

Today a cloud service can mean literally anything. Looks like everyone is jumping on the “cloud” bandwagon, offering cloud hosting, cloud VPS, cloud servers, etc. Unfortunately, most of the time, the word “Cloud” is only used as a marketing term and it is applied to anything hosted on the internet.

For my rant I would like to pick Amazon as a good example. So let’s look at Amazon AWS. Here’s how they understand Cloud Computing:

The term “cloud computing” refers to the on-demand delivery of IT resources via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Wait, whaaaaat?!

I sometimes think Amazon was actually the company that started this cloud nonsense in the first place. The only part of Amazon AWS service that is truly “Cloud” is their storage service.

Let’s read further, shall we?

You provision the amount of resources you need. If you need more, you can easily scale up. If you don’t need them, just turn them off and stop paying.

Please explain to me how exactly this is different from any VPS provider that allows upgrading/downgrading plans on the fly? (There are plenty of such providers)

In the long run, Amazon AWS service will actually be much more expensive than any decent VPS service out there. Among all of the VPS services I tested (over 40), Amazon is by far the most expensive service (I use a couple of AWS servers as ping nodes).

I don’t even mention the fact that Amazon won’t allow you to cap your bandwidth (and other resources), which means once you hit by a DoS attack, be prepared for a four to five figure bill from Amazon. And there is no easy/practical way of preventing this. Pay as you go in all its glory.

So here are 5 reasons to avoid Cloud services, at least for now:

1. Cloud servers are more reliable: LIE. A good VPS provider will not be any worse than, say, Amazon; uptime will be similar.
2. Cloud servers are less expensive: LIE. Show me a cloud service that would be cheaper than a decent VPS.
3. Cloud servers are faster: LIE. Most cloud VPS are actually much slower than a decent VPS – both, CPU wise and I/O wise.
4. Cloud servers scale better: LIE. Most VPS providers allow you to scale resources on the fly too.
5. Cloud servers are easier to use: LIE. Just compare Amazon AWS panel to, say, Solus VM or Kiwi VM panel, and you will see how big this lie is.

Why I wrote this you may ask?

You see, an average VPS customer somehow believes if there is the word “Cloud” in the offering, the service will magically become better. The point if this article is to show that this is not always true.

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