Not too many years ago, well funded startups and established large companies had a distinct advantage on the Internet. One of the major advantages was the ability to run their own websites and all them to scale up quickly. The costs of running sites on the Internet was high – between the personnel required to keep the sites up 24×7x365, the physical costs of hardware – the servers, networking equipment and connectivity to the Internet itself, and of course the licensing costs associated with all of the equipment above. It wasn’t just the up front investment, but also the recurring personnel, maintainance and upgrade costs.
The cloud computing model has turned the tables completely. It is similar to a buying coop, with the fixed costs shared across many companies. Now, small and midsized companies have the ability to have a world class data center supporting their web sites for a low monthly fee. Most cloud models will allow you to quickly scale up or down your capacity (the number of users or transactions you need to support and process on a very short time frame – (sometimes in minutes). Compare this to companies which host themselves, where it takes months to scale up and most of the sunk costs involved can not be recaptured.
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