As visibility into alternatives decreases due to the cloud, lets not forget what your putting in the cloud is virtual machines. Virtual machine hosting has been around for some time. Before all the cloud stuff, which is basically the next evolution virtual machine hosting.
A step before you enter a cloud, or as they are maturing and standardizing. Might be to opt toward basic virtual machine hosting. The difference between hosting a virtual machine and a cloud containing virtual machines is kinda blurry. But there are still many virtual machine hosting providers that are not considered cloud providers or offerings. http://www.google.com/search?q=virtual+machine+hosting Several sponsors of Gentoo have been providing virtual machine hosting for some years now. Its a bit more established than cloud stuff. Most anyone can host a xen or vmware image, usually with minimal effort ;) Some food for thought... -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
