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imported_silkroad · #13 08-23-2009, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by royo

There's no advantage to the cloud when compared to regular servers, in fact you will overcomplicate yourself having to learn how that specific cloud works and adapt to it's limitations, and learn how to scale with it. Pricing wise, the bandwidth is very expensive, and will be cheaper to go with a server.

This is definately not the case.

We use S3/CF on a site with around 4M PVs per month, and found using S3/CF was so easy to set it, it was almost trivial, and our users notice faster downloads.

In addition, a good server, no matter how gigantic, cannot outperform a globally distributed content delivery network (CDN) which is what Amazon CloudFront is.

I think Mr. Royo is confusing "cloud computing" with Amazon's CloudFront, which is a global CDN, not a "cloud computing infrastructure".

In addition, I am not posting from "theory", we actually run it, serving millions of users each month from over 200 countries

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