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Originally Posted by DaFace
Depends a bit on what you consider "cloud hosting" though. My personal take (that AC doesn't agree with) is that we should give up on self-hosting this thing and just go with "cloud" hosting with vBulletin in their shared infrastructure. We'd be on a box (or probably cluster of boxes) with other sites, but we could stop screwing around with this ancient software and let the pros keep it up and running.
But yeah, that's very different than self-hosting but figuring out our own network of CDNs to manage loads and such.
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The clear advantage of virtual hosting is that no one server or network connection has to take all of the load. It can be distributed across dozens or even thousands of virtual servers and if your hosting provider does CDN, it's even more robust.
It seems to me that hosting with vBulletin would provide many of those benefits while not being (probably) as expensive as a full blown cloud solution.