On 03/07/12 10:06 AM, John Hinton wrote: > I'm looking into adding a cloud to one of my servers. what does "a cloud" mean in this context ? to me, a cloud is a set of homogenous servers running distributed applications. classic cloud is google. the term has been degraded to also refer to a stack of servers running a virtualization platform such that the individual VMs don't care what hardware they are assigned to, classic example of a VM cloud is Amazon AWS. I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast