Thanks guys. That's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for.

And you're right, I completely missed the entire cloud revolution. When I was around, even as a small shop we had our own T1 lines and mix of Linux and Microsoft servers. If the company was still around, I'm sure by now they'd be cloud based for all their hosting needs.

And I know it's here to stay, but I still maintain that "cloud" is a dumb name for it.