cloud hosting ???
 

if you use cloud hosting and you host your own videos for your tubes, are you happy with your cloud hosting experience ?

cloud hosting seems awfully cheap, so what are the drawbacks of cloud hosting vs a dedicated server for you?

thank you

Isn't all hosting cloud hosting?

Welcome to the interwebs mister - have luck with that if you dont understand the difference between on-prem, private/public cloud, serverless, IaaS or infrastructure as code :thumbsup

Last week I set up a AWS infrastructure with auto-scaling groups for a tube site. Scales from 3 frontend servers, to 300 in increments of 5 in less than 45 seconds between each step-up. All videos are dumped in a S3 buckets that cost 0.028 (before discount) pr gigabyte data. and all videos are auto-transcoded without anyone touching it.

And that is even Old-school....

If you can go serverless, you should. You might as well prepare for hybrid-cloud v2.0

One huge benefit that hosting videos in a cloud infrastructure brings is that you're only paying for what you use, and you don't have to worry about upgrading drives and expanding space constantly. With user-generated content, this might quickly become burdensome and so an elastic solution is way better. Mechbunny recently introduced integration with MojoCloud's S3-compatible Object Storage - definitely something to check out for everyone using MB.

Cloud isn't necessarily cheaper than regular dedicated servers. If you look at Amazon's prices, they consist of a number of variables that, per my experience, tally up to a pretty significant amount, often more than what you would spend with a server hosting the same resources. At MojoHost, we strive to limit the number of variables the customer pays for, making the pricing structure more straight-forward.

This all said, there technically is no cloud. It's still a bunch of servers that have your content, distribute and serve it to your customers. It's just way more clever about redundancy and faster, but there's still physical hardware behind the "Cloud" :)

Per my limited understanding, cloud is the abstraction of CPU, network, and disk. So, you have a pool of resources provided by a lot of different physical machines, which you can carve up and distribute between your (or in case of public cloud your and other clients' needs) and use as needed.