>I'm not so sure that is true. If you co-locate with a local ISP or even host within your own company you can also have outages. I suspect actually that outages are far more likely in that environment than with one of the big host providers. The vast majority of sites online today already aren't in-house hosted today. It doesn't really matter if it's major provider or a local ISP that goes down - down is down :-)
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>I agree though - I'm a big fan of having full control over my hardware/software. Ironically cloud solutions are making it much easier to host your own full Windows VM as opposed to just hosting a site somewhere which is much more scary IMHO.
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>The biggest issue to me with cloud hosting/storage is that it's still too expensive.
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Figuring out Amazon's pricing is a bit involved. I started this thread because i have directed a few clients to a particular cloud hosting company who has a good handle on running the VFP app in the cloud. Was debating whether to more aggressively use & promote the services of this particular cloud provider or look elsewhere.