Is there a way to tell the cloud?

[KurotaTakumi]

Hi!

I found some hosting provide a vps. And said it is a cloud server. Is there a way to tell the cloud which is true or not?
I know a cloud infrastructure that includes multiple hypervisors (servers) with failover, redundant SAN storage. Is there a simple way?

 

[Avuntia]

from what i know there isn't really but i might be wrong. think you must take there word which obv could be false. I'm not sure sorry, but its a really interesting topic you have started

 

[Rado_Ch]

Mainly you can judge by the price. Cloud Service offers much better redundancy, flexibility and on-the fly updates. That generally costs more than a simple VPS. So if they offer it at a ridiculously low price they will be working at a loss and chances are its not really a full-on Cloud :rolleyes2

 

[Sister]

A panel discussing the cloud and the enterprise at the Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in London focused on the challenges facing the shift to “Cloud 2.0”.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/17/cios_still_cloud_wary/

My speculation is that the primary advantage of Cloud 2.0 will be the automatic failover of redundant HA jargonese.

 

[RisingFog]

Unfortunately there isn't really a good way to tell if a service is actually being run in the cloud. You'll just have to make sure you research the company and see how reputable they are

 

[ksubedi]

Cloud is basically a big cluster of scalable vpses spread over multiple servers. Some low end providers may not have as much resources as big providers to have a good cloud setup. Like everyone else said, do some research and look for reviews.

 

[Kingfish85]

To be honest, it really depends on what the provider means by "cloud". Some companies refer to "cloud" as just being able to scale resources, nothing to do with high availability, redundancy or failover..

 

[Julien@HS]

Probably better ask them, real cloud imo is a system designed with HA/Failover. Else it's just a standard VM with scalability. But nowdays everything is cloud.. it's an overused marketing scheme.

 

[Kingfish85]

Probably better ask them, real cloud imo is a system designed with HA/Failover. Else it's just a standard VM with scalability. But nowdays everything is cloud.. it's an overused marketing scheme.

:thumbup: Most people look at AWS as "cloud". With a basic instance, it's nothing more than a regular ol' VPS.