Now add the ability to:
1) run any application you want. Build a server image and just run it. Think about a test environment for any software that you can rent by the hour.
2) if you develop a web application that suddenly becomes popular, can you scale up your web host to a server cluster with dozens, or even hundreds of nodes?
3) can you dynamically add nodes to your server cluster during peak hours and then remove the nodes at off-peak times? If so, are you fees based upon actual use or are they based upon peak capacity.
Cloud computing are still emerging, but there are qualitative differences from current web hosts.
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