Remote controlled boot in datacentres

"The Cloud" is just somebody else's computer that you can't go and kick when it inevitably falls over. The traditional method of making a computer functional again is called Percussive Maintenance. Therein lies the problem: users of cloud services can't maintain their own servers.

My solution is to have a remote-controlled boot, connected to the Internet via a separate connection, that users can take control of remotely, guide to their server, and give it a swift kick.

Or I suppose you could give them a pokey stick for hitting power buttons instead.