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This web hosting thread started by jeffhardy on 22 November 2008

I have been gathering a lot of info on Cloud Computing for a presentation I did last week at PubCon. It has generated a lot fo emails and phone calls and a few that have discussed me doing elements of this presentation at other events. I even felt like I had to follow up with a Blog Post on it:

http://www.smartertools.com/blog/arc…he-future.aspx

Anyway, we know that the Big guys (Microsoft Azure, Google, and Amazon) are advancing this model with proprietary systems, and Rackspace has started pushing their own Cloud concept. What does the rest of the hosting community think? I am wondering how other individual hosting companies are thinking and possible already addressing this. I already heard from AppLogic directly.

We are particularly interested because hosting companies make up a big part of our business and we want to make sure that we are there when the demand is.

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