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Is the private cloud hosted or self-built?

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2022-06-02 16:14:38 10月01日 Update

Hosting private clouds and building your own private clouds are two easy-to-understand concepts. Literally, you can clearly understand that one is to ask others to help establish management, and the other is to establish your own management. There is no significant difference between the two in terms of use costs. Today, cloud technology focuses on their strengths and weaknesses in terms of solutions for building your own private cloud.

Management complexity: hosting a private cloud is for funding. As long as the funds are in place, there will be no complexity; self-built private clouds are much more complex and require professional and technical personnel to deal with daily failures, develop functions, and so on. The progress of problem handling depends on the number of technicians. Many people are faster and slower are fewer.

Scalability: the managed private cloud is very extended, and the required expansion can be completed immediately in one sentence; self-built private cloud also has scalability, which is a little more complicated. If it is a self-purchased server, you need to purchase a new server, redeploy, and interface with the old server. The cycle time is relatively long.

Customized features: managed private clouds generally have their own strong development team, which can be satisfied only by submitting the required features; self-built private clouds will be very slow in development because of their own technology and personnel. And the number of customized features will be reduced in a short period of time, which will not be able to meet the growing demand. After all, there is a big gap between professional and amateur efficiency.

Security: private clouds are generally more secure and should be backed up in a timely manner, whether hosted or self-built. Escrow is equivalent to putting money in the bank, while setting up your own escrow is equivalent to buying your own safe to save money.

As can be seen from these comparisons, hosting a private cloud is slightly better than building your own private cloud. If you want a strong technical team, it is recommended that you choose to build your own private cloud so that everything can be controlled by yourself.

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