Server move starting tonight

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Um yeah, remember when the Amazon "cloud" crashed and burned? That wasn't supposed to be able to happen. Lol Server and network architecture/reliability are still only as good as their weakest link...

Companies lost data, permanently. :o Their letter was almost comical. Aside from screwing up several websites for a few days, the data loss was unforgivable.
Here is the letter from Amazon. How pissed would you be to get this?
http://www.sklartechnology.com…ta-loss-for-many-clients/

Ah Bob Ross. I remember watching him as a kid and yelling at the TV because I swore he was destroying his painting. 10 minutes later...masterpiece. Dude is awesome. (And his heart rate probably never rose above 40 BPM the whole time. LOL)

Interesting. The main reason I asked is because the class I'm taking at WU has an entire chapter about Cloud computing and how it's labeled as the next BIG WAVE of advancement; Web 3.0.

That article is really something....not only is Amazon saying they lost your data and can't get it back in useable form but they will issue storage charges if you don't delete it? WTF?

The cloud can be defined as many different service offerings and as I just learned can also be Sal.

I work for Hosting.com the "Cloud" that we sell is just VMware virtual machines sold to customers for use for what they need. This does not have the issues like the Amazon cloud which is an entirely different service. Ian is right because the marketing folks can call many different things "cloud"

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I am the cloud.

I am so tempted to have some Photoshop fun with that....:)

As others have said, half the problem with the cloud is everyone defines it differently. At work our companies Lead IT Architect asked a bunch of us engineers to find out if the cloud is something we should invest in. We scheduled a meeting with him and asked him to define what the cloud is. It was fun to watch him squirm. Needless to say that request was dropped.

Many people look at it what BFrank said, the ability to spin up many (often virtual) servers on short notice. E.g. I have a farm of web servers and my company is having a crazy sale and getting 10x the traffic we normally do so let me spin up a bunch of servers in the cloud temporarily to take the load. The best is when sales guys try to talk about the 'private cloud' when you own the hardware. How that really differs than what we have now is beyond me, it's just a buzzword that needs to die. I did a presentation at the Storage Networking World conference in Dallas last year and one of my slides was titled 'The Obligatory Cloud Slide' which got a good laugh (yes, I'm a geek =]).

There are a lot of reasons why you would want to use services like this...Salesforce.com is the lifeblood of many businesses...a small company without a full IT staff or room for a datacenter and cooling can have access to services without a major capital investment...sending your backups offsite over the internet can automate backups a lot of small businesses would otherwise not do...the ability to scale resources in a short period of time to meet demand is a very powerful tool BUT none of this is revolutionary. VMware has been around for several years, outsourcing has been around forever, it's just a name to help a sales guy.

Here's a couple presentations from a conference last week if anyone wants to get their nerd on and read:

DIY: Build Your Own Private and/or Hybrid Storage Cloud
http://media.techtarget.com/se…s/Storage_Cloud_Marks.pdf

The Truth About Cloud Storage: What Is It, Do You Need It and How Can You Use It?
http://media.techtarget.com/se…h_About_Cloud_Staimer.pdf

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There are a lot of reasons why you would want to use services like this...Salesforce.com is the lifeblood of many businesses...

Services like Salesforce and one that I use Evernote are good examples of how I like to define a cloud. But that could also be defined as SaS (Software as a Service.)

EMC and VMware got together and started this marketing campaign of Private and Public Clouds using their combined Storage and Virtualization technologies. That really added confusion to how the market defines cloud. Before that you had Amazon and Microsoft and then Apple had to jump into the fun and those all brought "cloud" mainstream and confused everyone.

Anyone else this occasionally:

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Anyone else this occasionally:

yeah, a few times in the last week or so

I haven't seen it at all. New server has been good for me.

I have not see this and have had zero issues since the move.

I saw it once since the change, just did a refresh and it reloaded fine.

FYI...seen 500 errors a couple times today.

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FYI...seen 500 errors a couple times today.

I've seen that exact screen multiple times just today!