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January 26, 2012
Moving Your Systems To The Cloud
By Trevor Boland
Through history many things have found that clouds are a useful entity. Goku from Dragon Ball, Lakitu the Koopa and the AngelSoft baby all make use of the fluffy pillows of frozen water. Of course I'm not talking about salting the atmosphere with your servers. I speak of the metaphorical internet cloud. Though the cloud certainly does have it's downsides it is also a cottony soft realm of possibilities. Ok, no more analogies, I promise.

The largest issue faced when attempting a to-Cloud shift is moving from an individual server based system to a scalable multi host system. Of course if scalability isn't a requirement for you rehosting is your answer. With rehosting you simply change the configuration of the system to point to a new location a migrate your files and databases. Many companies offer this infrastructure as a service like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Hosting.

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