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We're not actively promoting the Cloud solutions at the moment either. We have a testbed of cloud solutions that we're currently running through different data centers, and we have a handful of customers who have requested it specifically so we are working with them to help improve various aspects of their sites (mainly the display of images from multiple locations). However we've found CDN to be much more powerful in that regard than a Cloud Solution in the traditional sense. Of course, when you really come down to it, Cloud and CDN are VERY similar. Cloud is the processing power, and CDN is the storage of the data.

Most people that we have talked to are looking at a Cloud solution to help speed up their sites, however a CDN is really a better solution for them as it's really the content delivery that they're after. Depending on who you use for CDN there are even some places that can do MySQL Databases on a CDN - so we'll be experimenting with that in the months to come.

For now however, shared hosting and single/clustered dedicated server hosting still holds the market as the Cloud Hosting solutions are still out of budget range for most personal users and small or startup businesses.
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