Dein Reich ist in den Wolkenund nicht von dieser Erde (Brentano)
In einem sehr informativen Beitrag beschreibt Martin Weigert das Phänomen des „Cloud Computing“. Was ist darunter zu verstehen?

Als Cloud Computing wird ein Zustand bezeichne…

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My site isn’t a basic, run of the mill site - I use some features that most other sites do not. I heard about Mosso because I’m a Rackspace client and thought “Awesome, scalable AND they should have sweet support like Rackspace!” I was wrong.

Not only did their servers screw up, switch my site to Apache (from IIS), and serve my CODE for a few hours until I told them about it, but after not being able to connect to my database through my site, they also told me the next day that the connection string I was using successfully for a month on THEIR servers wouldn’t work on THEIR servers?

Oh, yeah, and when they told me this, I tried one more time to log into my site, and was able to connect to the database with no problems.

Oh yeah again, then their support closed the ticket because the issue had “resolved itself” and when I asked what was wrong, the support guy said he could re-open the ticket to investigate, but all but told me I was stupid for following up because it was working now. (What about next time this happens - when my site is live?)

And then there’s the ticket that’s been open for 2 weeks now. They can’t tell me why the method THEY gave me to have my 404 pages redirect to my custom 404 page (in IIS7 using my web.config file) doesn’t work, and stops ASP.Net from throwing errors - it throws blank pages instead. I followed up on this ticket after not hearing anything for days, and all they could tell me was “We have no idea”

They are NOT rackspace, and don’t let RS’s ownership lead you to think otherwise.

Mosso…A good customer service, a good tech platform and so on…

But do not know what went wrong with Mosso top management?

Whoever took the silly decision of restricting the request count is not the person leading this company in the right direction.

Paying $ 100 for few thousand page impression each day with just not more then 2-3 Giga Bytes bandwidth utilization doesn’t make any sense to people hosting there websites on Mosso.

People who are not aware of the ‘3 million HTTP requests’ clause, this counts each and every HTTP request to the server. One page may have 100’s of http requests, which consist gif, jpg,css,js,mp3,mpeg etc.

Friends, be aware if you are considering Mosso. It may look fine for you at this time but when your limit start exceeding you will be in serious trouble like 100’s of current people like me who are using Mosso for years.

Simply no words to explain the pain so many Mosso members are going through.

The real issue here is their new pricing structure. Mosso just ‘re-released’ their product to climb aboard the Cloud Computing hype. Their biggest change was their usage controls. They are now limiting us at 3mil hits per month. This was just changed Monday. Before Monday $100 included:

2000 GB bandwidth
80 GB Storage Space
Unlimited Hits

The new change was because they were being overun and had no way to cap people’s usage. I believe this new overhaul to their business plan will hurt them. 3mil hits per monht is too little. Specially when you look at the overage fees. $.03/thousand…that adds up Very Quick.

I will stay for now but I will have to keep a watchful eye on my hit counts. (Soemthing I never thought i’d have to do)

Here is the forum where people are speaking out.
https://manage.mosso.com/forum/posts/list/1379.page

I do a lot of visioning and forward-looking projects for the journalism industry and let’s face it, you guys don’t subscribe to newspapers any more do you!?

However, I have been blogging all week about cloud/utility computing in a special series. Check it out and provide some feedback if you don’t mind. http://www.jonathancoffman.com/blog

The recent news is about applying new price criteria (request number limit) that mean in fact a price increase. “Cloud computing” is just a catchy press release headline

This technology has potential but I don’t think it’s proven for prime time quite yet. Great for excitable blogging technologists but not so fun if you’re running a business or if you’re a webhost that values its reputation for reliability.

Call me old fashioned but in contrast a Xen VPS running on individual physical servers provides a very stable environment, as ourselves and others like Slicehost have proven in production over the last two years.

Certainly it is.. another way to put it is: 3 cents per thousand hits — thus as you can see, it’s so “web 1.0″, albeit in disguise.

If they can replicate Rackspace’s marketing/sales success, they should be set. I don’t think though any serious developer would choose this. It’s not clear if the service is scalable, there is no root access, and there seems to be many downtimes. And charging for HTTP requests is ridiculous.
I also anticipate that many hosting companies will jump into this space, so along with usual VPS, shared and dedicated offerings you’d get cloud hosting. So this should make things tougher for Mosso in the future.

If you want to host a good website, there is no way you will choose mosso hosting.

Other dedicated hosting:
add more space you want to?
10MB line or 100MB line?
load balance or double up the CPU?

you want to use which 1?

Thanks for trying to keep me honest. However, I have asked you a couple of times for your definition…in fact, part of the reason I wrote “Understanding Grid Computing” on the GoGrid blog was because of your responses.

So, once again, I ask that you please define your understanding and interpretation of a Grid and how you feel I may be mis-representing our offerings. I am open to commentary and gladly encourage refinement from others within the field.

Do any of the other players in the space fall into your definition of a Grid? If so, how?

Please set me straight, if that is your desire.

Thanks! I am all ears…

You don’t have a grid!!!! Please quit with all the false marketing as it is just getting silly. I expected better out of ServePath rather than them letting their marketing people make down right false statements. At least EC2/flexiscale/etc. aren’t using the marketing mumbo jumbo and actually let their customers know what their products really are.

In any case, I have dabbled with cloud computing since it was introduced by Amazon. Cloud computing is great for web apps and video/bandwidth heavy sites.

As more and more sites use more bandwidth heavy content, cloud computing will grow in popularity.

#39 calls it: This is an advertorial.

The HTTP request thing is terrible. Even nirvanix doesn’t charge for http requests.