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Our Love Affair with Cloud Hosting

by FireHost Evangelist on February 12th, 2010

Ahh February… Love is in the air. Our servers are in the cloud. But do we love our servers in the cloud?

Cloud computing and cloud hosting practices have been around for some time, probably longer than you think. Long enough, in fact, to gain significant awareness and pique the interest of anyone starting, or growing a business. “I must have everything ‘in the cloud’” these entrepreneurs say!  While the definition and clear-cut use case for cloud hosting remains elusive, the promise of cost savings, “fair” usage based billing, and unlimited scalability has startups love struck.

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