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Here I will be occasionally sharing experiences I've had with various hosting companies. I decided that the first volume of this will go to the latest "company" I've dealt with. Here's a bit of experience I've had with a company that promoted itself on Cisco Meraki's Google + page called: Weatherly cloud. They seemed like a decent company with some neat looking offerings such as SSD based "cloud" servers, a generous amount of space, and a decent looking website and management portal. I decided to take them up on the "trial offer" and I expected to have a month of awesome to play around with a speedy SSD cloud server. Seems fair enough. One problem.... How would the connectivity be and how redundant was this "cloud" hosting? If they didn't have good connectivity what good is redundant "cloud" architecture if the connectivity wasn't such to back that up? I asked their online chat representitive a...

Ok I have two things to say about this company: 1)they have improved over the years since the G2 days (BUFFERING..... anyone?) 2)they have made the easiest flash video downloader ever. it is part of realplayer now however a few points I will note: they used to be extremely responsive on thier facebook page. I was impressed. I had an issue with something and they actually wanted to call me to help me fix it! That was impressive! then they got slacking with thier response time. they also got slower at rolling updates for the firefox addon. they were fast with getting Firefox 4.0 support, however they took a long time getting support out for Firefox 5.0 even though it is extremely easy to patch addons. I've done it with the addons that are featured on this blog. I almost had it working, however there were prolly some code bits I couldn't touch, due to them being locked down by realnetworks. I would have patched it within the hour Fx 5 came out! Also the Firefox team ...

"The cloud" and "cloud servers/hosting" are different things. The thing everyone knows of "the cloud" is just marketing for thier services that are based off of cloud servers. cloud servers are redundant, fault tolerant, scalable, and elastic server architecture that is very good. based of concepts such as grid computing, clustering, etc... Now people are starting to hate both. which is unfair. they see cloud hosting (which is alike to a VPS or Virtual Private server--->just with better architecture) and are scared from it, when the hosting architecture isn't bad it's the few services like amazon, icloud and google that are altering people's perception. now back when we had idrives, xdrives, and stuff like that people weren't as scared.... even though they used the same technology to do it, just not marketed as this "cloud" thing. all the sudden when you put the cloud spin on it it scares people. wow. I think peopl...