&gt; I would probably optimize for the other extreme of &quot;Apple model&quot; premium&#x2F;full-service expensive hosting that has fantastic uptime, gear and sales&#x2F;support for enterprise&#x2F;startup and IT&#x2F;web operations... There&#x27;s some more money in that and less headaches. (The most money seems to be in the upper-middle pricepoint area.)<p>A few weeks ago, I&#x27;d say &quot;You mean AWS&quot;, but after this morning, and a few other incidents over the last few weeks, I don&#x27;t think anyone can do fantastic uptime in a virtualized&#x2F;cloud environment.<p>There&#x27;s the rub, isn&#x27;t it? Companies want to compete on quality, but if you&#x27;re <i>supposed</i> to architect your application(s) for failure, uptime becomes a lot less important. You then only have price to compete on.<p>I know Twilio runs in both AWS and Rackspace, depending on various KPIs for shifting load. Seems to be the way the world is headed. I&#x27;m curious if containerization like Docker predicts CDNs running your containers for you at the edge...