Yeah.. I am a bad person in backing things up and in the times of RAID-10 et al, I still behave in the ancient ways, and resulting in bad mirrors of my files. That is not all, I also do have a tendency of NOT BACKING MY SQL and THEME UP..and so…what do I get? somewhat full of rubbish.
That is just happened or is still happening to my Zyraz Master servers. I was synchronising stuff and data from Hostgator to PRONETHosting which seriously needs alot of data updates and stuff like that. The problem is that the critical data are NOT MIRRORED..and errgh! I am faced with issues again.
You see, there are many things to do, like 15 Wordpress blogs to reset and sync, 2 CRM systems, Support Ticket systems, AWBS for domain and hosting which are big huge files for your information, plus many data to upload. With the CELCOM giving me slow upload speeds, I am really heavy on the load and no way I am able to do all these pronto.
Having said that, I am trying to contemplate if the Microsoft Azure Platform is the better alternative for me as the way I see it, having a dedicated 1.6Ghz CPU with unlimited RAM resources (1.75GB I think) is quite a task despite the small bandwidth (10GB standard) and 7GB duplex data transfer for US and 2.5GB for Asia Pacific. In all, it cost $150 per TB delivered for US ($100/TB in) and $450 / TB outbound for Asia Pacific (well, $150/TB if it’s INBOUND only)…but way it works now is that if you do web hosting 12% in, 70% out and rest is in between, depending on your regional targeting, and if you use the High End Core which is a 8-Core (similar to 2 Xeon Quad Core CPU) with 14GB RAM and 2048GB of Storage Instance but then, I need to define how and what to do as compared to a full proper instance in my Windows Server 2008 running T4200 Core-2 2.0Ghz laptop..which is sluggish even with 4GB RAM because mainly due to the hard disk.
Even then, I have to migrate the VHD or Virtual Hard Drives up to the servers to run them… errgh! The pain.
Anyone has experience with Cloud?
