How do you physically get a hold of your servers if the gas main under them blows up or a tornado sucks them up and drops them a hundred miles away?
Servers are not physical things that you can just go get when there are problems. They are imaginary devices that can suddenly vaporize, leaving no trace. Plan your deployment accordingly, and you won't need to be writing emails saying that people are dying because your data center blew up. Your systems will silently switch over to some other data center and you'll file a claim with your insurance company to have the servers replaced on Monday morning.
In other words, "the cloud" had nothing to do with this problem. It could happen if the server was physically attached to you or in a abandoned missle silo with an army of armed guards.
Servers are not physical things that you can just go get when there are problems. They are imaginary devices that can suddenly vaporize, leaving no trace. Plan your deployment accordingly, and you won't need to be writing emails saying that people are dying because your data center blew up. Your systems will silently switch over to some other data center and you'll file a claim with your insurance company to have the servers replaced on Monday morning.
In other words, "the cloud" had nothing to do with this problem. It could happen if the server was physically attached to you or in a abandoned missle silo with an army of armed guards.