On 5/2/2011 9:33 PM, Henry Paul wrote: > On 05/02/2011 09:29 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >> Still on a more serious note, how can "the cloud" keep suffering from >> single points of failure like this? >> First amazons cloud, now vmware, it's getting a bit ridiculous. >> / > Because cloud hosting is really just web hosting with lipstick. THIS!!! Seriously, I have never understood people buying into "the cloud" as anything more than a great marketing campaign for hosting. At best, you're hosting on a cluster. Woop-dee-doo. Redundancy is one thing, and there are better ways to do that explicitly than trusting that "the cloud will take care of it."
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