"This was enough and we’ve finally made the decision to give up and go back to real hardware only we control and manage. It took us more than a month of work, but we think we’ve got pretty good system built as the replacement for Softlayer cloud based solution."
This can't possibly be a good end solution! Haven't you read everyone else's blog posts and forum comments that there's no possible way you can ever build anything as good as _insert_vendor_name_here_ has done with their cloud?
There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds! And you'll never ever be able to replicate around the globe instantly, and even if you could, it'll cost so much more than _cloud_vendor_ because they have economies of scale you can never achieve. Ever. Seriously.
I just can't believe someone would consider - you know - owning and managing hardware that they control with their own SLAs and support people in place. Where's your sense of cloudsourcing?
There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds!
You don't need to be on a cloud to support that. Dedicated is so much cheaper/more powerful than typical cloud machines that you can have a surplus of machines ready for your bidding and still pay less than the cloud +end up with way more processing power.
Also, you don't need to own/mange the hardware- Hosting companies will lease it to you + repair it when things go wrong
[insert sound of loud cheering from those of us that have a clue -- again]
Upvote. Sorry that there probably aren't enough people with a firm grasp on reality to lift your comment out of the hazy twilight. Take heart in knowing that the scent of coffee is getting stronger with every passing day.
While I do agree that you many not be able to handle a 2400% increase in under 43 seconds I don't think this is a realistic expectation.
I don't think that all products will have to deal with the 2400% or even a 100% increase in traffic. It really comes down to what the product is. Most products don't even reach such gains. So while there is a 0 chance they can take the increase, there is a low chance (probably under 10, maybe even under 1%) that the traffic will ever increase.
This can't possibly be a good end solution! Haven't you read everyone else's blog posts and forum comments that there's no possible way you can ever build anything as good as _insert_vendor_name_here_ has done with their cloud?
There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds! And you'll never ever be able to replicate around the globe instantly, and even if you could, it'll cost so much more than _cloud_vendor_ because they have economies of scale you can never achieve. Ever. Seriously.
I just can't believe someone would consider - you know - owning and managing hardware that they control with their own SLAs and support people in place. Where's your sense of cloudsourcing?