Originally Posted by AdultSoftwareSolutions

Depends on what you mean by cloud hosting I guess. I use VPS servers for small stuff but for big sites you might as well just use a real machine. It's easier to provision servers if you need to scale up and down. This can be useful if you know you will have a lot of traffic but it will only be for a short while. No point in having expensive servers when you only need it for a week. There are a lot of companies offering VPS solutions now. I don't like the Amazon EC2 type solutions that much though. They seem really overpriced and a lot of them don't allow adult (Amazon doesn't allow it).