Congratulations to Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete for winning the 2010 Miss Universe Contest.  In the picture below she celebrates with runner-up Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillips as she is crowned Miss Universe 2010 at the Miss Universe 2010 Pageant Final at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas on Aug. 23, 2010.

It was a great show and I loved watching some of the blunders like when Miss Philippines’ answer when asked what her biggest mistake in life was and how she fixed it. “In my 22 years of existence, I can say there is nothing major,” Venus Raj said. I thought it was funny because before the pageant, Raj was rated among the top contestants in an online poll on the pageant’s website.

How does Miss Universe 2010 have to do with the cloud hosting world and cloud servers?  How many people logged in to ABC and watched the pageant online?  According to random websites out there, there were 6 million viewers.  Those are all people watching online.  How much bandwidth is that to stream to all these people?  How many servers would it take to stream the same thing to 6 million people?  Do they have to keep those dedicated servers all year long for this one event?

With cloud servers you really don’t have to worry about that.  You can with the flip of a button up your server to be something that can handle this amount of traffic. Cloud servers are scalable and can have infinite flexiblity.  I highly recommend cloud servers for companies that have spurts of traffic.  Actually, I take that back… I think everyone should have cloud servers!