Just for the benefit of anyone who may not know, 'cloud hosting' refers to redundant web servers hosting a website: instead of residing on just one web-server, it resides on several (and usually in more than one location)... So, instead of the website being 'not found' when a server slows or dies, it is then served up by the others. The result should be the elimination of any downtime associated with a web server being overloaded or failing (although you still have your DNS nameserver to worry about).
I've experienced some 404s (not found) from time to time when trying to access the site, so hopefully that situation will be nearly eliminated now-- and theoretically, loading speed should be improved. This account is also based in the US rather than the UK, which may be of some performance benefit to the vast majority of our members in North America.
I've actually had the "new" account for about a year, for other things. The only reason I hadn't moved the Café over there is I thought it would be a complicated mess-- which it kinda was.
I finally moved it now because the
disabling of our site last week turned out NOT to be a "mistake" by the web host, but a deliberate move to extort exhorbitant monthly fees out of customers who had paid for multi-year web hosting-- and that disabling of accounts came with no notice whatsoever. In fact, it was 24 hours before they even told anyone what was going on. They only restored web access to the sites temporarily because so many, like myself, complained of the need to access areas like the board administration which can only be reached from the front-end of the site.
Needless to say, after such a display of blatant disregard for their customers, I was resolved not to have anything more to do with them if at all possible... and now we won't.
Topic: Free Radio Cafe now 'on the cloud' or getting there (Read 2580 times)
