The hole in the cloud offerings right now are in the "managed server" space.
There are plenty of (well grounded) people who aren't worried about having to double capacity every other week, but still don't want to be (or hire) a linux, nginx, memcached, and mySQL guru. Figuring out things like setting up a hot spare with automatic failover, backup, security patching and dealing with DoS attacks are not by any means things that can be picked up in a weekend.
GAE and Herko promise this type of thing, but bundled along are the cost, limitations, complexity and opacity of the autoscaling infrastructure.
There are plenty of (well grounded) people who aren't worried about having to double capacity every other week, but still don't want to be (or hire) a linux, nginx, memcached, and mySQL guru. Figuring out things like setting up a hot spare with automatic failover, backup, security patching and dealing with DoS attacks are not by any means things that can be picked up in a weekend.
GAE and Herko promise this type of thing, but bundled along are the cost, limitations, complexity and opacity of the autoscaling infrastructure.