I agree with most of what you've said, but I just wanted to offer that there is a middle ground between "making money" and "spending money."<p>Offtopic, Cloudkick is a very sexy offering, and it's priced for a certain set of customers, which may or may not fit you or I, but ideally, I'd like for them to find a cost structure that scales a little better, perhaps.  10% of the cost of the server might work better for users with less than 10 servers, for example.