Cloud computing
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Hey boobs - I'm thinking the same ..
I guess the upside is scalability / portability / flexibility / no fixed contract
Downsides include:
* everything is stored with one corp - privacy / lack of control maybe?
* need decent sys. admin skills
* I've heard that current DB technology doesn't work too well with cloud solutions, but quite a few vendors are producing DB variants specifically for cloud use (https://launchpad.net/drizzle is one such example)From what I gather, the idea is you choose a server image (AMI -> http://developer.amazonwebservic…) and then get Amazon to boot it for you.
E.g. I use drupal for some projects, and some guys have created an optimised AMI for drupal -> meaning that we'll soon be able to have a scalable almost instantaneous way to serve heavy-traffic drupal sites. The same kind of thing's happening for all kinds of application.