Would you consider the likes of Linode to be cloud? They basically only offer fixed sized VPS's that are very difficult to scale. E.g. if you want more disk-spa

Would you consider the likes of Linode to be cloud? They basically only offer fixed sized VPS's that are very difficult to scale. E.g. if you want more disk-space you have to pay for an entire VPS. I think this article is comparing apples and oranges.