I don't know about you guys but one of the cheapest optimizations you can do is making sure your database and application server are "close" to each other. Doe

I don't know about you guys but one of the cheapest optimizations you can do is making sure your database and application server are "close" to each other. Does a cloud database service make sense? Maybe. Databases have gotten easier and easier to setup. In addition they are quite optimized in terms of processing power. I'm not sure I want to give up control my database just yet.