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Old 11-12-2011, 06:00 PM  
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The other way to look at cloud hosting is a High End VPS server that has no single point of Failure , Means if any of the processing nodes go down the server will remain active , also you can lose a whole disk array and it will still be fine ... This is a simplified explanation
Wrong. If the host machine does go down your VM will have to reboot. There is no fault tolerance virtualization that doesn't care if its host machine just dies. They just restart on another node.

See Amazons "cloud" and its horrific failures lately.. including data loss and downtime.. lots of it.
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