I have been considering buying an iPad because it would make life much easier *if* it had the tools to become a mini-office machine where I could tap out letters and do some basic sorts of things. However, initial reviews suggested it couldn’t do these things so I held off and then my partner bought one. So I had a play with iWork and this is what I found.

This isn’t a post aimed at sysadmins, as they will know this already. However, it’s a post intended for a business owner or decision maker who places the contract for web hosting, and is intended to highlight at a high level some of the security risks that exist to their websites just by being on the Internet.

There is a lot of hype as well as valid discussion about the benefits of Cloud Computing. And while we hope that the faith we put in this elastic environment to scale and provide the flexibility we need to ensure our web applications are always running and performing at optimal levels for all our visitors, there will be times when things don’t go as planned.

I read the post (link in main blog post) with interest, hoping that it would shed further light on the relative merits of private vs public clouds. Unfortunately, the main argument outlined was actually one of business process engineering, and the writer claimed that adopting the Private Cloud would highlight your inefficiencies and help you streamline your processes while the Public Cloud could not do this …

About 3 years ago, I posted an article about the different types of hosting available at the time. While most of what was written still holds true today, the emergence of Cloud Computing (Cloud Hosting) adds a new layer of complexity and options. In this revision of the 2006 post I will add a summary of each of the types of hosting – including Cloud – to clarify the terms and help provide a clearer picture of the marketplace.