: A few answers to get started: Using "cloud" is more hype than useful at the moment. You should have basic servers somewhere stable and running, with full backups several times a day, and

@Margaret670

a few answers to get started:

Using "cloud" is more hype than useful at the moment. You should have basic servers somewhere stable and running, with full backups several times a day, and configure your software so that you can expand it with several cloud computers during peak times if needed.
Cloud computers are not very fast and they start to get very expensive with traffic. You could say the price is unreliable.

Virtualization is usually good only for development. It's not for production use, as the system/disk speed is variable.

Get managed dedicated servers so that someone else will notice the system is down and fix the hardware. Make sure the bootfiles are inplace and the system restores itself on boot.

What is fast depends on application. If you are database heavy go for xeon processors. If you are disc heavy go to raid-5 or raid-10 systems and/or SSDs.

Make sure you get backups daily on external location with also some older ones up to 6 months.

CDN is propably the use of Coral or other caching network of computers distributing your static data. Worry about this when your site is full up and running.

You can use your own nameservers as caching nameservers to speed up operation. I don't think there's any point hosting your own domains in your own nameservers as you'll get them elsewhere very cheap or for free.

Btw, keeping your data out of the web/dbserver on another ftp server will propably slow down your site more than having the ftp daemon running on the webserver.

Hope this helps.

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