There's 0 chance that you'll be able to respond to a 2400% increase in traffic/usage in under 43 seconds!
You don't need to be on a cloud to support that. Dedicated is so much cheaper/more powerful than typical cloud machines that you can have a surplus of machines ready for your bidding and still pay less than the cloud +end up with way more processing power.
Also, you don't need to own/mange the hardware- Hosting companies will lease it to you + repair it when things go wrong
You don't need to be on a cloud to support that. Dedicated is so much cheaper/more powerful than typical cloud machines that you can have a surplus of machines ready for your bidding and still pay less than the cloud +end up with way more processing power.
Also, you don't need to own/mange the hardware- Hosting companies will lease it to you + repair it when things go wrong