Cloud Mining hasn't been profitable in a very long while. I doubt it was ever.. but that's another discussion. That's no news.
But yes due the difficulty increase and the high prices of asics these days, you better out just buying bitcoins directly.
cloud mining is a no go.
mining in house is a maybe under if you are under 10 cents.
the current jump is -2.5%
if we go flat mining in house can work.
look below on:
April 5 2015 the diff was 49.4
July 10 2015 the diff was 49.4
that is 96 days zero diff growth
The coin price went from 259 to 314 same time period.
That was a great time slot for mining in house
Jul 11 2015 51,076,366,303 3.39% 365,618,871 GH/s
Jun 28 2015 49,402,014,931 -0.58% 353,633,397 GH/s
Jun 14 2015 49,692,386,355 4.42% 355,711,957 GH/s
May 31 2015 47,589,591,154 -2.50% 340,659,563 GH/s
May 17 2015 48,807,487,245 2.44% 349,377,603 GH/s
May 03 2015 47,643,398,018 0.07% 341,044,727 GH/s
Apr 19 2015 47,610,564,513 -3.71% 340,809,696 GH/s
Apr 05 2015 49,446,390,688 5.84% 353,951,052 GH/s