Which is better: Cloud computing or Old School Hosting?

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posted 10-15-2010 by matt

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Yesterday at This or That we had an outage due to Amazon's EC2 services having trouble. We apologize to everyone for any inconvenience this may have caused you. But, this begs the question, is it better to use the cloud or old school co-location hosting?