Hi all,

The nice thing about cloud hosting is the possibility to size up your server when I need it.

I am looking for a hosting offering that gives me good performance, and does not ask me how much Mhz of gigabytes I need...
And if Digg finds me, they automatically create a farm to handle each request.
But if the site is only visited by Google... you get the picture.
Payment per transfer bytes, CPU cycles, or something else.

I was hoping cloud hosting would be the answer, but after reading the posts I realize it is not.

Is there another offering that gives me guarantied performance for my website?

Thanks in advance.

I have found out that I am looking for is auto scaling.

yup - some cloud's out there has auto-scaling as part of their offering. Typically you'd want a setup that says: "if your server uses XX% resources for YY mins then please add ZZ resources to it until it is below XX% again.

You'd also want to make sure the system has an upper limit so you would not be a victim to financial ddos attacks.

:)
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I am lauching a SAAS offering.
This could be a hit or a miss.
A slow or crashing site because of high popularity, could result in a miss.
But taking the safe route and getting a dedicated (or large VPS) server could result in a financial miss.

I can't wait until it is as easy as the utilities (water, electricity).

I am lauching a SAAS offering.
This could be a hit or a miss.
A slow or crashing site because of high popularity, could result in a miss.
But taking the safe route and getting a dedicated (or large VPS) server could result in a financial miss.

I can't wait until it is as easy as the utilities (water, electricity).

Cloud is pretty ideal for SaaS hosting. A large portion of our customers are SaaS vendors, and they are able to scale their resources as their application grows.

Why not design for scale-out - you can then make use of on-demand additional nodes if your offering proves successful.

I have found clouad hosting (elastichosts.com) that offers easy "scale-up" (thank you wikipedia).
The first step will be a separate database server.
They offer an api to start servers, so that is good.

Thank you very much for your replies.