Anybody using or planning to use cloud computing?

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Most people here say that the usual web hosters are not very useful once your sites start having a lot of traffic. So has anybody used cloud computing services from Rackspace or Amazon.

I was reading Rackspace's testimonials today and seems that even people running social media sites are moving towards them.

The only drawback I can think of is that you need to spend more time, at least initially, on learning to manage your server. But costwise doesn't seem that expensive compared to virtual dedicated servers offerd by regular web hosters.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    I have 2 cloud accounts and they would be great for my purposes, I just can't figure out how to use them.

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  • Profile picture of the author marcellarhughes
    First of all, everyone who shops on Amazon or searches on Google or posts on Facebook
    is using the cloud. These consumer applications are simple examples.

    Network Cloud Services


    What you may not have thought about is that every one of these consumer application cloud

    services uses network cloud services. In fact, the word “cloud” comes from the fact that many

    years ago those of us who built and sold client server applications, software and hardware

    used to draw a picture with the PC connected to a network and the network connected to a

    server. Since none of us actually understood how the network worked, we drew a cloud and

    labeled it “network” and left it at that. In those days companies built their own networks,

    but today consumers and businesses use network cloud services delivered by companies like

    AT&T, Verizon, Masergy and Sprint.

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