If you happened to attend HostingCon last year, you may have been present for a somewhat heated exchange between the CEO of Parallels, a virtualization company, and the CEO of HostMySite.com, a firm that specializes in dedicated servers. The discussion centered around the assertion by the Parallels CEO that grid computing (also now sometimes called ‘cloud computing’) would herald a new era in web hosting. The alternative view held that traditional hosting and dedicated servers were doing just fine, and in fact were the sole money-maker for the majority of attendees — as evidenced by a show of hands.
Dedicated Servers or Grid Computing?
August 25, 2008