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What is a 'Cloud' (e.g. private cloud, computing cloud) - Guy - 10-11-2010
What is cloud computing? a private cloud ? and a public cloud??
the reason why i am asking is because i'm thinking of buying a new macbook and use this laptop as a server for my use (put my website on, and maybe my clients websites.. but not a website hosting service.)
and i saw ubuntu server...
and on this page...
http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud (ubuntu server edition)
thanks!
RE: What is a 'Cloud' (e.g. private cloud, computing cloud) - RichardGv - 10-11-2010
Wikipedia knows a lot of things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
(Private cloud / public cloud is explained in "Deployment models" section.)
I don't understand what the hell a "cloud" is, either, though.
By the way, it's a very bad idea to use a laptop as a server, since it's pretty possible that it will overheat after running for hours.