I agree completely. There seem to be a lot of web-startups that don't really have a firm grasp on colo/hosting/virt servers/etc. It strikes me as strange that

I agree completely. There seem to be a lot of web-startups that don't really have a firm grasp on colo/hosting/virt servers/etc. It strikes me as strange that the server availability part of their business is often seen as some uninteresting messy thing to be outsourced to the lowest bidder. EC2 is great for giving you moderately cost effective dynamic computing cycles. I personally think that EC2 makes for an expensive sucky web-host, and my guess is that over time (by the end of 2009) people will better understand EC2's niche.