Yay for the cloud!

[yanpa]

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Hello cloud-user! The following activity has recently occurred:

 * urvirtsvr-web1 - (10606784) System Shutdown - Completed Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:49:32 GMT
 * urvirtsvr-web1 - (10606792) System Boot - My Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Profile - Completed Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:49:49 GMT
 * urvirtsvr-web1 - (10606814) System Shutdown - Completed Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:51:47 GMT
 * urvirtsvr-web1 - (10606815) System Boot - My Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Profile - Completed Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:51:55 GMT
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Cool, random reboots are a New Feature! Fuck boring real servers with uptimes measured in months, nay years. Let's Clouding!

(The above server, in fact clusterfuck of cloud servers, was installed by a former colleague who was once an "evangelist" at another Cloud Provider whose only redeeming feature is that the founder/CEO does cool stuff like retrieving Saturn V engines from the bottom of the Atlantic, and those servers will be migrated to a Real Man's Real Servers ASAP).

[Russell]

Yeah, but everybody could have figured out that cloud servers are just shit. They do not make sense in a world where Hard Disks improve faster than Moore's Law.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Don't hang 'round where two's a crowd on my cloud, baby....

[legion]

Yeah, but everybody could have figured out that cloud servers are just shit. They do not make sense in a world where Hard Disks improve faster than Moore's Law.

I find the cloud concept rather nebulous