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Originally Posted by peedy
Cloud hosting does not always mean virtualization and vice versa. I use VMware and Citrix enterprise virtualization for some clients I do IT for and they are rock solid.
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Sure, some people are calling it "utility" hosting when it's in reference to actual servers being added on demand.
But at that point, the companies ordering the cloud services have to be very technically skilled - able to setup, maintain, expand and shrink your own clusters on the fly, purchase new services via api on the fly, etc etc.
It's not some magical technology that lets a webmaster take his vbulletin site, upload it to the cloud and it just works, whether he has 80 users or 8000.
There are some very neat projects out there where people are trying to do this the right way, but none are even near production ready.