Working in the hosting industry from the last 6 years, I can definitely say that cloud hosting is not a reliable way of hosting, mostly for the companies who work 24*7. It has never proven to be 100% effective even in the basic part of the work. The fascinating virtual world can be seen as most cost effective and most reliable technology for the companies but the companies should also understand the basic meaning of the virtual world. Any how the technology grows, being a part of this industry I would always prefer physical hard server to be used by the companies for data storage or hosting than using this technology.
As rightly said, bigger they are the harder they fall, is what the cloud hosting providers are facing now. A simple logic can be seen here that the providers of this service do have many customers to who use their cloud hosting technology to power up their website. Many of their websites are extremely busy most of the time of the day and some are busy 24*7. During any incidents like those of Cloud getting deleted or long outage it is but obvious that a huge mass of people are not going to be happy with the service provided.
Hardware is always considered as the heart of any kind of network setup. It is the hardware which creates, maintains or breaks the network. The quality of the network definitely depends upon the quality of the hardware. Using this technology as a substitute for hardware is always going to clause problem in some or the other way in the network or the server. Basic problem with this service provider is the usage of basic and bargain quality equipment to be the most cost effective company in the market competition. It is always been feasible and anytime beneficial for using physical hardware server instead of going for this technology.
Most of the networks having single server which are properly configured work more effectively than cloud hosting configuration. It can be observed from many companies survey that many of the networks are working continuously on a single serve for more than 3 years without any downtime or loss of any data and have proven to be much more effective. There are many more other options to increase the efficiency of the network and the websites hosted or for data storage. It is not essential to by high end servers for the same, high class hard disk such as SCSI hard drive or RAID can be used as high quality storage to store the important data moved from the server. High end processor and increasing the memory as per the quantity of the sites and data to be hosted can be used for the effective working. Most of the things covered above can help in avoiding the downtime of the server. In the case of cloud hosting it totally depends on the service you are opting for. In any case cloud hosting is still not fully reliable concept.
