What's the point of the cloud? Sure, EC2 scales well, but does desktop needs scaling? (Unless you want to buzzword that your desktop is web scale, haha)
it's accessible from anywhere at anytime (if you don't shut it down) from any device capable of executing a ssh client (iPhone, iPad, for example) also you can have a development environment exactly equal to your production environment and you are safe from hardware failures.
So is usual non-cloud hosting. Well, not turning off my home desktop PC is certainly not "cloud", but, given I have fast and stable network connection and power supply, it works equally (?) well.
That's why my question emphasized the "cloud" word.
