Old thread but the issue of cloud hosting has entered my life. A client with a site where classes range from 500 students to almost 3000 students moved from dedicated hosting to a cloud host against my advice. Since then they have had technical issues. Imagine that.
Of course backup and restore of classes with users is not functional even when I set the timeout an hour and set the php_value memory_limit 2000M.
I turn on error reporting and get nothing really. Backup just stops at Writing categories and questions.
Technically they are running 1.94.
database mysql version 5.0.51
php version 5.2.6
Part of the dilema is I tell the IT sort of guy that cloud hosting is not working for his install, he says why, I say because you need to fully control memory in an install of this scope and we keep circling the issues not resolving them.
I understand that it might be possible to make cloud work but the other side of this coin is it will be expensive to maintain support.
I guess I need someone besides me to tell them no way this is going to work or tell me it will work.