Migrating software to the cloud?
jacquesm: We've done a fairly thorough comparision of self hosting vs EC2 and have found that for us the money isn't there.Our scaling issues are such that we can slowly add more servers to match our organic growth. We do have it as a backup plan in case we'd ever go faster than we are growing now but that would be a stopgap. Bandwidth costs are the main dealbreaker, we're currently buying at about $5-6 / Mbit and EC2 simply can't match that.This is for a site that serves up about 800K uniques every day and is very bandwidth intensive. We'd be paying amazon roughly 10 cts / second!