Sites in the cloud

Posted on March 7, 2009
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Configuration management, version control, backups and syncs, deployment to private, staging and live servers… all in the cloud. With real-time resource tweaking when you need it / at your finger tips. If my previous post made you worry for DBAs, you should be worried for all those server guys n’ gals who manage and deploy your web applications. Check out Aptana Cloud.

Sigh… it’s never been a better time to be a startup: none of the baggage of entrenched infrastructure. Only, maybe, having to find CFOs conversant with cents-per-hour* fiscal policy.

*At time of writing, Aptana cloud billing starts at 4 cents an hour.

Tenuously Linked (blame my tagging):

• virulent clouds: crimeware-as-a-service
• An hour in the sky: Google Wave, Sound Cloud.
• Databases in the cloud
• Utility computing vs the electricity grid

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