<p>My experience has been that if you are not going to take advantage of elastic scaling, you are wasting your money with cloud computing. That is to say that if you only grow over time and never scale back during low traffic, you would do better with traditional pricing.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 18, 2012 2:54 PM, "Chris Fowler" <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 10:05 -0500, Elmer Masters wrote:<br>
> the primary difference being I'm not going to<br>
> accidentally dump[ coffee on a cloud server.<br>
<br>
With Rackspace if I want to test something on its own "server" I just<br>
clock a button on their web interface and 5 minutes later I have a<br>
CentOS 6 system ready.<br>
<br>
Two weeks ago I brought up 2 test systems. No requisition, no arguing,<br>
and no waiting for UPS.<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
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