Many software providers are moving to the Cloud Computing model – i.e. the Internet. By providing SAAS (Software As A Service), these providers are solving problems for their customers that previously were expensive and resource intensive. For example, what happens when traffic on your website grows exponentially during your revival? The budget priced web hosting service you signed up for gets overloaded – maybe even crashes. That is the worst possible time for a crash, and the Church is left with a black eye when it comes to pulling off the revival. However, it doesn’t have to be that way.

With the cloud computing model, the web site can automatically expand in capacity to handle the increased demand. At the data center, they will simple spin up another server, or as many as required, to handle the demand. This all happens transparently to the Church staff. The Cloud just gets a little bigger. And after the Revival is over, the cloud can shrink back to normal size. You may notice the bump in web traffic demand, but it isn’t a crisis. Perhaps more Churches need to take advantage of the flexibility and performance available in the cloud.