Please don't hate the infrastructure, hate the companies that manage it improperly like amazon and rackspace.
Hosts that use vmware's cloud offering are very reliable. amazon and rackspace have hacked together "clouds" and rackspace doesn't have a true cloud.
the cloud infrastructure (when implemented properly) can be very reliable, secure and fast.
it's better then dedicated since you can add ram to a cloud server in just a couple minutes or less, rather then powering off a dedicated and physically upgrading the RAM,SSD/SAS/ETC.
in the cloud control panel all you gotta do is go into the VM manager, select the VM you wish to add the RAM to, and add some RAM..... restarts are not even needed when configured properly!
and the systems are load balanced, thus if the server your node is on is too busy, the load balancer hardware or software will move you to another node that is less crowded.
what about storage then?--->simple. a good cloud has it on an SAN meaning the storage is not tied to one server if it kicks the bucket, your VM will just pop back up on the new server. the SANs have excellent performance, specially the EMC branded ones. The HP ones are crap though. LOL
if your webhost does not meet the above critera they are not a genuine cloud hosting provider and you have been greatly misled.
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