More reasons to love and embrace the Cloud

By Wednesday afternoon I'd migrated two Web sites from the loud and hot server rack in my home office to Microsoft Azure web sites. Then I popped off to New York for last night's game, and when I got back to my hotel room I encountered yet another reason I like the Cloud: I couldn't get to any of the sites back home.

It turned out that a brief power failure had caused the firewall to reboot—I think a UPS didn't last as long as expected—and in the process it caused the Web server's network adapter to fail.

Keep in mind, all I knew was I didn't have most of my Web sites, including the Daily Parker. I did have email, because I'd already moved that to the Cloud. But I didn't know whether I'd blown a circuit breaker, whether someone had cut my home Internet cable, or whether someone had burgled my house.

So, I'm going to continue migrating sites as quickly as I can. And by autumn, mysterious outages will, I hope, not happen again.