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I've spoken with Rackspace's people about the ability of cloud sites to scale. It is true that the sites will auto-scale but the mysql database will not auto scale - they have the same database scaling issues as everyone else.

I didn't realize the database didn't scale. If an automatic scaling MySQL database as a service doesn't already exist, then there is an idea for a startup! If you build it, I'm sure a lot of people would pay.

EDIT: I didn't see the other comment...I guess someone at YC beat you to it!

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