Digital Business

Okay so we routinely hear from people that have setup concrete5 on some cloud based web server and find it slow. My answer is routinely, "Well of course, what would you expect out of something called ‘the cloud' speed?"

The cloud makes a lot of sense to me if you have a huge number of small computing tasks. Need to store a load of data? Sure. Want to convert a kaballion images from one format to another? Perfect solution. Even if you've got a simple webapp that you want to be able to replicate a million times some morning when you get Dugg okay, as long as the app is pretty light weight and you design it with this in mind.