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What is cloud computing? What can I make with it?

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closed as not a real question by Byron Whitlock, Jim Lewis, Naveen, Loki Astari, balexandre Aug 17 '10 at 7:11


Sorry suraj, this is something you can easily find on Google. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing –  Byron Whitlock Aug 17 '10 at 6:55
Don't we all. It is an overloaded term that means slightly different things to different people. Thus the question is too vague. –  Loki Astari Aug 17 '10 at 6:58
There are so much things that "I want to" ... –  Cedric H. Aug 17 '10 at 7:01

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The basic idea is that you run a service on a whole farm of servers managed by someone else, so you don't have to care about maintenance.

This makes it way easier to scale things, since you just have adjust some number in the control panel and the cloud (just a fancy name for datacenter) will start your program on new servers / VMs.

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