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Originally Posted by L0stMind
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.
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This description sums it up 100%. Period.
"Cloud" hosting is great, if you have an application which needs and supports elastic demand. There is no magical product yet on the market, that lets you upload your crappy PHP script and have it scale infinitely.
I think at some point someday we'll get there - but we are a LONG way off from the "invisible" cloud in the hosting market.
That said, there are definite uses for on-demand computing. Just not for your average webmaster with a few dedicated servers pushing websites