had mine for over a year and never has failed or had any downtime except on Saturday...which no one trades anyway
Its called a server for a reason, not ADSL or road runner cable lol. Trading "Professionals" trying to debate that their retail cable modem is more reliable then a SLA backed ,redundant UPS , multi homed connection datacenter server. makes me laugh hard.
not sure on the lingo about cloud service, but I just connect using the "windows remote connection" through windows 7. They gave me an IP address with a password and it works like a normal computer. No lag time or anything like that. I tried a few others before but the lag was horrible...like a few seconds or a second, and I couldn't stand that. I can connect to it wherever there is internet.