I am very interested also, here that technology will take time to gain confidence in clients but I woulld like to know more and be ready when that happens.
Do you see it is really an advantage , actually to use it? I sure think that maybe you could have a better uptime on the servers since are several behind, but you can have that if you have a cluster of them....
I don't know what the big deal is with cloud hosting. I used one and it cost a bit more than shared hosting and the performance was WORSE than a certain shared host that I used.
It's not as though it's something new and different for a small or medium site. Unless your site needs more resources than one dedicated server, I don't see any advantage to the "cloud" where the idea is that it can grow to multiple machines.
Unless I am missing something....
Fred