Ahh, computing on a cloud, it sounds so delightful. We were going to move the site to a “cloud computing” host, and I was going to post a picture in triumph of our server in the sky, but things did not work out as they should have. Instead, we will be moving to a regular old dedicated server in the next few days. There may be a little bit of downtime as we swap things around, but after that things should be faster and taste better.
They used to call it network computing. Network computing means that out on the network there’s a computer you’ve never heard of that’s about to go down and take your work with it…
02/27/09 at 1:25 pm by Peter da Silvanever did i say the word “new”. i do appreciate a good rant though!
02/27/09 at 10:16 am by Andrew BellI love how everyone seems to think that just by calling it something silly like “cloud computing” it becomes something new.
Every time you worked on an office LAN with your files on the server, you were working in “the cloud.” Every time you saved a file to your My Documents folder, and that got redirected to the file server, you were working in “the cloud.” Every time you trusted any of your information to a device out of your direct control, you were working in “the cloud.” That server could have gone down, it could have gotten a virus, the backups could have failed or been unusable after the tapes became damaged, etc.
The work is nothing new, nor are the risks.
02/27/09 at 6:09 am by Spork