Cloud services are often far more expensive, I work with someone who did a fair amount of research of the various costs of clouds. They are good for dynamic scaling of resources but if your concentrating on one server or another its likely your server load isn't highly intensive and a single dedicated server could handle it. Also, there are the options of cheaper webhosting, or a VPS, as a true dedicated server can be quite expensive due to the cost of rackspace.
In terms of availability, it simply depends on replication and the reliability of the data site. with a standard cloud server there is likely not replication across sites and so the availability is determined by availability of the data center. Dedicated servers dont have multi site replication (unless you do it yourself), however many provide far better uptime SLAs than a cloud provider. For example, Amazon EC2 SLA guaruntees 99.95% uptime. whereas dedicated servers or VPSs can generally offer between 99,99% and 99.9999% (depending on who it is). -Kevin Brandstatter On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net>wrote: > Am 14.12.2012 11:00, schrieb Grant: > >> > Would everyone here be in favor of a dedicated server over a cloud > >> > server from a host with good cloud infrastructure? The cloud server > >> > concept is amazing but from what I'm reading a dedicated server at the > >> > same price point far outperforms it. > >> > > >> > - Grant > >> > >> Last time I did the calculation, a dedicated or normal virtualized > >> infrastructure was more cost effective as long as you could accurately > >> predict the performance you need. > >> > >> Cloud services only really help if you need a high dynamic range > >> regarding scale and performance, e.g. a service that could get a lot of > >> new users very fast or is only really active for short time spans. > > > > Doesn't a good cloud server also have potentially higher availability > > compared to dedicated? > > > > - Grant > > I'd be grateful if anyone can point me at a well conducted study on that > topic. Until then I just say that my anecdotal evidence shows the > opposite: My cheap-ass virtual server has an uptime of 492 days with > only minor, previously announced network outages. During the same time, > Amazon EC2 had what, 3 or 4 major outages? > > Regards, > Florian Philipp > >
