I got a call this last week from a major hosting provider trying to get us to move all our servers into their cloud. I had not given it too much thought in the past, assuming that it would cost a lot of money. I started looking around and surprisingly it is not that expensive.
Something I find interesting about most of the cloud services are how they license Microsoft products. In the next few weeks I’ll be doing a good bit of research and possibly some trials with stress testing. It is a great concept but it is still hard to give up physically being able to touch your own server or hard disk.