[BUSINESS] how cloud hosting killed off traditional hosting

[TheButcher]

I was talking with a friend last night, he was into traditional old school hosting, a rep at one of the companies that was big in adult about 20 years ago. And he got laid off because the company reorganized and eventually sold, he said something interesting and I agree. In the old days you had bare metal servers, colocation, managed hosting. Yeh shared and vps too. Then cloud popped up and started getting market share, so many companies ended up either closing up, going cloud or sold.

tell me if you agree with this.

[TheButcher]

The IPhone killed the IPod, that is how it is.

[NSWDave]

There will always be companies offering dedicated servers, ,may be for a little higher price but as long as there is a demand so the services will meet the demand.

[gotonudecom]

I buy bare metal servers all the the time.

Cloud companies have larger profits and advertise more. It only seems like they have taken over.

most cloud companies are really just renting bare bones servers from someone, until they get their own,
then they are still renting connections and space, etc.

companies go under all the time.

most likely it was a buy out our the company was poorly managed.

or both.

[born2bewild]

It has to be managed for me

[BOB777]

It has to be managed for me

Me too

[Sandman]

Half of what is sold today as cloud is same as vps was sold years ago , from a management standpoint cloud is much better for everyone.

[GlennfromLA]

Half of what is sold today as cloud is same as vps was sold years ago , from a management standpoint cloud is much better for everyone.

same shit different name rofl nice to see an honest answer from a host.

[BrasSmonkey]

cloud hosting is not to host a site. its to hold the bulk of media

[TheButcher]

Half of what is sold today as cloud is same as vps was sold years ago , from a management standpoint cloud is much better for everyone.

same shit different name rofl nice to see an honest answer from a host.

One way to phrase it

[JamesNet]

Even now hosts offer dedicated servers which to me is not really a dedicated server but they pretend it is.

[gspotman]

Even now hosts offer dedicated servers which to me is not really a dedicated server but they pretend it is.

smoke and mirrors

[Sandman]

Not reputable ones

Even now hosts offer dedicated servers which to me is not really a dedicated server but they pretend it is.

[Boner]

Not reputable ones

Even now hosts offer dedicated servers which to me is not really a dedicated server but they pretend it is.

Perfect way to put it

[Dallastim]

Sandman as a host provider what would you go with for your own sites