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I have had this same conversation 3-5 times per week for the past 2 years and the only concrete thing that I can come up with is that there is nothing concrete about it....yet. The funny thing is that if you ask 5 different KNOWLEDGEABLE people what cloud hosting is, you will get 3 or more different answers.
We have been testing cloud solutions for at least 18 months and have been doing deep research and we keep coming up with the same conclusion....it works well in certain instances but for high performance, high speed web hosting it is just not quite there yet. With that said, for a Disaster Recovery solution it seems like the perfect solution. For archival of files, pictures, videos, etc it is great. The commonality here is that these applications do not need the same speed of delivery as your web site and in our managed hosting solution that is our forte and one of the only concerns that we have so we are not willing to use it in that application. We are utilizing it for back ups and other DR work, but not in a production environment.
Notice, that I said the word YET in this post a few times. There is a part of me that thinks that we are onto something that could be great....but for right now, it is my personal opinion that it offers the same pros and cons as an old fashioned shared/virtual/vps/semi-dedicated server it is just that it uses more than one server to do the sharing.
--T
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