I must admit I&#39;m a bit of a Cloud/VM fan.  The thought of not having to think about the actual hardware you are running on is quite liberating.<div><br></div><div>Not having to worry about &#39;what if my server dies&#39; is quite nice.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Creating a quick instance based on the one I&#39;m currently running to test something and not be tied into a X month contract.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Adding/Removing capacity to my VM as and when I want to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 July 2011 17:03, Ken Rice <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:krice@freeswitch.org">krice@freeswitch.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">




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<font face="Monaco, Courier New"><span style="font-size:11pt">Its not specifically that easy, however keep in mind, that a $100 Dedicated server, on reasonable bandwidth will probably handle more traffic then you can imagine...<div>
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On 7/5/11 10:52 AM, &quot;Sanjay Arora&quot; &lt;<a href="http://sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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Heck for $200 I’ll rent you 2 dedicated servers<br>
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But is scaling to a higher server as easy as it would be in Amazon...just boot up in a higher instance....or am I deluding myself?<br>
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