Cloud Servers

[Shawn Gossman]

Has anyone used the Cloud to host their forums on?

I've never really messed around with Cloud servers at all.

I just wonder how good they are and if it's worth using them.

 

[Dilip]

I have worked on cloud servers. It is too pricey for forums. You simply cannot afford it unless you are a very successful business.

 

[Uncrowned Guard]

Uncrowned Addiction and Uncrowned Gaming use Invision's Cloud hosting. It is expensive, costing around triple what they were self-hosted and with always up-to-date licenses.

However, they still combine to around $100 a month and allow me 100% focus on content vs fighting server issues. So FOR ME that is a significant win. Instead of every Friday being "backup day" and sometimes spending weeks dealing with strange errors, I can now just put that time into more articles and content that generate income. So my logic is that overcoming $100 a month isn't that bad compared to the perks.

It isn't for everyone and the costs are higher than self-hosting. But after decades of self-hosting, the urge to keep up with server needs and education has just left me and now I want to focus on my site's content, not the sites themselves.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Uncrowned Addiction and Uncrowned Gaming use Invision's Cloud hosting. It is expensive, costing around triple what they were self-hosted and with always up-to-date licenses.

However, they still combine to around $100 a month and allow me 100% focus on content vs fighting server issues. So FOR ME that is a significant win. Instead of every Friday being "backup day" and sometimes spending weeks dealing with strange errors, I can now just put that time into more articles and content that generate income. So my logic is that overcoming $100 a month isn't that bad compared to the perks.

It isn't for everyone and the costs are higher than self-hosting. But after decades of self-hosting, the urge to keep up with server needs and education has just left me and now I want to focus on my site's content, not the sites themselves.

I would think that @Elseb would agree with this

I think he is using the same thing.

 

[Elseb]

I would think that @Elseb would agree with this

I think he is using the same thing.

Yeah thats the one. Makes it an awful lot easier and less worry tbh.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Yeah thats the one. Makes it an awful lot easier and less worry tbh.

I bet it does.

Even though I'd rather host in myself, if it was the only option, I'd might give in.

I'm sure you see no downtime at all do you?

 

[Elseb]

I bet it does.

Even though I'd rather host in myself, if it was the only option, I'd might give in.

I'm sure you see no downtime at all do you?

Haven't had any of yet, only when I forgot to pay one month haha.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Haven't had any of yet, only when I forgot to pay one month haha.

What happened there?

 

[Tracy]

It isn't for everyone and the costs are higher than self-hosting. But after decades of self-hosting, the urge to keep up with server needs and education has just left me and now I want to focus on my site's content, not the sites themselves.

If one knows what they are doing, and use something like CentMinMod.. then using ANY cloud provider is typically asking to get raped.
The ONLY exception is with IPS which plans to offer "special" services over those that choose self-hosting in the claim that they can "only provide it withigntheir infrastructure". I call simple bull-shit on that.. as they COULD offer it to their self-hosted script holders at an additional cost... but honestly that additional cost would probably run most of their self-hosted sites way... and not to their Cloud service which is rather expensive as it is.

 

[Uncrowned Guard]

The ONLY exception is with IPS which plans to offer "special" services over those that choose self-hosting in the claim that they can "only provide it withigntheir infrastructure". I call simple bull-shit on that.. as they COULD offer it to their self-hosted script holders at an additional cost... but honestly that additional cost would probably run most of their self-hosted sites way... and not to their Cloud service which is rather expensive as it is.

The real-time viewing and whos typing stuff are not something that will likely win them many new cloud customers. I know the big push against the IPS Cloud service is locked features, but as a Cloud customer, I can't honestly say that any of the cloud-only features are anything beyond extremely minor cosmetic features. Everyone complains about the cloud-only features, but no one seems to list the feature that they needed being cloud-only.