Best places to go for assistance with cloud questions?

[Alex]

Hi,

>> Are these clouds primarily for data storage, or can I use fedora as a
>> front-end where my mail applications (such as webmail and pop/imap)
>> would access data in an Amazon cloud? This still leaves a single point
>> of failure in my fedora system, however.
>
> We don't actually have a cloud-backed data storage service. There is work in
> progress to package OwnCloud, which is a web service you can install to run
> your own cloud-backed storage system. Alternately, there is SparkeShare,
> which uses Git as a backend, making it easily adaptable to a cloud solution.
>
> I don't quite understand the question about front end mail applications.
> Fedora has plenty of mail clients which can use any remote server,
> cloud-hosted or not.

The problem I see is with reaching the webmail application on a server
that's down (round-robin DNS is one solution, but not fully
fault-tolerant) as well as replication of the mail data itself between
multiple servers in the case one goes down.

I used to use drbd or even NFS, but I figured there was something more
reliable, and had less overhead and complexity with some type of cloud
software.

So essentially, I guess my question boils down to how can I provide
redundancy for the webmail application and for the mail data that it
accesses?

Thanks,
Alex