Cloud VPS is really cloud?

[kunnu]

Hello,

I see lot of offers and I find many cloud vps providers who even sell cloud vps under $3/m which is really cheal.

If you want to provide cloud vps then I think your services must run on different different server but how you call a cloud VPS  if everything run only on single server?

Thanks.

 

[KuJoe]

"The cloud" is a marketing term. Don't try to label your services as a cloud just for the sake of labeling, define what your cloud is. Anybody in IT or who has a remote clue about infrastructure will see the word "cloud" and will require some cold hard facts about that service regardless what you label it. I give away "the cloud" for free all day long and it doesn't cost me much to do it.

 

[drmike]

Cloud is entirely BS in most of the VPS market.
 

This includes in big shops like DigitalOcean.  

Words have meaning and standards to such in computing.  Sure loose definitions and adherence to meanings.  Doesn't excuse the fraud of folks though.

Real clouds cost a good bit of cash.  Offering them for $7/mo would mean financial ruin.  Someone will show me a company doing it I suppose.

 

[Criot]

I would see a 'real cloud' as a service with high availability, there are plenty of providers who market cloud platforms because they offer cloud features, but they don't offer the high availability.

If you're looking for a redundant cloud, then the customer should expect to pay more than a few dollars a month.

 

[MannDude]

There is no real definition of what "cloud" is and what it is not.

As others have said, it is mostly a marketing term. The cloud hosting you could expect from Amazon is not the cloud hosting you will receive from some random WHT offer for $3/mo.

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

If it's floating, it must be the cloud.

 

[sleddog]

The definition of "cloud" is nebulous

 

[Hxxx]

There is diff specs for what could be considered cloud.

Then there is the fake cloud of course.

Some companies assume that if its flexible is cloud, apparently. But well, there is not much to be expected from the marketing department

 

[trueman1]

clouds for me is more like high availability in case that hardware failed, but the problem that you can't check it.

everyone can sale vps and call it cloud.

 

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[Husky]

Clouds are a stupid place to put computers... They rain and shit!

 

[lbft]

The only true compute cloud is a Raspberry Pi tied to a helium balloon.

Seriously though, there are multiple competing definitions of "cloud", and then a whole lot of marketing intentionally muddying the waters. Is it hourly billing, or Software as a Service, or utility computing, or on-demand scaling of resources, or geographic distribution, or physical node redundancy, or geographic redundancy, or redundant storage, or what? Plenty of the time it's a combination and plenty of the time it's none of the above.

Given how confusing the term is and how much it excites customers, is it any wonder companies will use the word whenever virtualisation is involved?

 

[Clouvider-Dom]

That depends. Guys like Amazon and Digital Ocean call their services a cloud while using a single hypervisor with a local storage, so you really have to explain how your infrastructure works to the Customer, especially mentioning all HA features.

 

[perennate]

That depends. Guys like Amazon and Digital Ocean call their services a cloud while using a single hypervisor with a local storage, so you really have to explain how your infrastructure works to the Customer, especially mentioning all HA features.

Amazon has EBS.

 

[drmike]

Given how confusing the term is and how much it excites customers, is it any wonder companies will use the word whenever virtualisation is involved?

Dishonest companies could run Celeron CPUs and mask things and claim Intel processor schtick too.

It's routine that these shops when called out on their fake clouds and properly cornered go to blaming marketing and other folks they believe are inept.  But typically that stuff is only polished by those folks.  The crap and distortion start with the dishonest manager/owner of such a shop.

Most customers haven't a clue what cloud means.

I could claim my new hosting company runs on a super computer since by all definitions modern computers perform like super computers to normal folks and versus recent history.

It is sad the levels of bullshit unscrupulous companies will toss on a customer.

I am just glad these people are quarantined in hosting and not running a restaurant or transportation company or 50 other things where they'd inflect  massive human damage.

 

[Licensecart]

"The cloud" is a marketing term. Don't try to label your services as a cloud just for the sake of labeling, define what your cloud is. Anybody in IT or who has a remote clue about infrastructure will see the word "cloud" and will require some cold hard facts about that service regardless what you label it. I give away "the cloud" for free all day long and it doesn't cost me much to do it.

This there are some companies which are "Cloud" who have a High Availability cluster, so if one server goes down, another one kicks into place. That's what "Cloud" was supposed to be

 

[HN-Matt]

Clouds are a stupid place to put computers... They rain and shit!

Guaranteed data leakage.

 

[DomainBop]

Cloud VPS is really cloud?

CloudVPS.com's HA platform (with data redundancy over 3 Amsterdam DC's connected by their own fiber ring) uses OpenStack and they have ISO 27001, Nen 7510, and CloudControls certifications.  You were asking about the provider CloudVPS, right?

 

[Hxxx]

There are some shops that are really close to what a cloud should be:

1- Essentially is all about redundancy

2- and location independent.

If the node crash and the vm continue running without downtime, that is well.. cloud...

If a tsunami hit the DC and the vm continue running from another location without downtime ,, that is .. well.. that cant be more cloud

But real "cloud" if that even exist, we could say extreme redundancy" , doesn't cost 10 dollars per GB RAM and not 20, or 30. It really cost a lot.

Just a thought...

 

[Clouvider-Dom]

Guaranteed data leakage.

Why is that ?