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Andrei Yurkevich—President and Chief Technology Officer at Altoros—compared cloud vs. regular hosting in terms of which could be a better choice for a startup. He dwelled on how usage of cloud-based hosting might affect not only efficiency of spending on hardware, but also success of the whole venture. On October 11, 2011, Altoros organized and took part in the first CloudCamp in Denmark held within the GOTO Aarhus Conference.
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Andrei YurkevichPresident and CTO at Altoros Systems, [email protected]
Startup StoryCloud vs. Traditional Hosting
SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
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0 users 0 usersCost: $250/month Cost: $0.04/hour
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500 users 500 500 users 500
Infrastructure spending: $250 Infrastructure spending: $70
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SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
$ VERSION VERSION $MONTH
500 users 500 500 users 500
Infrastructure spending: $250 Infrastructure spending: $70
250 1.1 1.1 701
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LARGEСRASHED
SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
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1 000 users 500 1 000 users 500
Infrastructure spending: $250 Infrastructure spending: $275 $205
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SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
$ VERSION VERSION $MONTH
5 000 users 4 000 3 000 users 2 000
Infrastructure spending: $250 Infrastructure spending: $275
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Infrastructure spending: $250 Infrastructure spending: $275
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Infrastructure spending: $500 $250 Infrastructure spending: $550 $275
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Infrastructure spending: $500 Infrastructure spending: $550
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Infrastructure spending: $500 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $46
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Infrastructure spending: $500 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $46
2 250 1.5 1.5 + scale 2 3666
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Infrastructure spending: $1 000 $500 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $92
3 250 1.5 1.6 2 9587
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Infrastructure spending: $1 000 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $275
4 250 1.6 1.7 3 7838
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60 000 users 25 000 120 000 users 60 000
Infrastructure spending: $1 000 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $275
4 250 1.6 1.7 3 7838
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SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
$ VERSION VERSION $MONTH
10 000 users 50 000 300 000 users 180 000
Infrastructure spending: $550 + $35 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $550
4 835 1.6 + cloud 1.8 4 8839
24h/d
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6h/dx8
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L L .LB
3h/dx1
SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
$ VERSION VERSION $MONTH
2 000 users 8 000 500 000 users 200 000
Infrastructure spending: $550 Infrastructure spending: $550 + $5500
5 385 1.7 2.0 10 93310
24h/d
L L
L L .LB
12h/dx40
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L L .LB
3h/dx1
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SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
SOCIAL DATINGSOCIAL DATINGBEN BOB
Recommendations:
1) Choose dedicated server when you know your load exactly and when there is no big variations in traffic
2) Keep in mind that system upgrade takes time
3) Remember that performance issues may negatively affect the existing user base
1) Choose cloud hosting when the load is unknown, especially if there is a chance that it will be very high
2) Take advantage of cloud elasticity
3) Monitor system load and upgrade to a more powerful instance before you run out of the resources
4) Test scalability of the application before your users do that
