I built a lot of websites, I will recommend to all of my clients for choose a responsive template(i.e. the template has a mobile skin). Nowadays, a lot of people use Tablet and Smart phone to browse Internet. Even some of my friends are very rare to open their computer. They like to sit in their living room and use their phone to browse online. If you have not a mobile skin for your website, I believe you will lose 30% visitors. Moreover, most all modern browser support HTML 5. HTML5 can supports different screen size, that is easy to build a responsive template! Thus, I highly recommend you have a mobile skin for your website!

I read the blog of Google Compute Engine. The preview of this product is available for everyone. That is good to have an option of Amazon EC2. We can create virtual instance in the Google. But it doesn't like Amazon EC2, you can choose your OS template. Anyway, that is good to have an choice rather than Amazon.
Reference:
Google Cloudplatfrom Blog

SSD is so good. I planned to upgrade all of our dev pcs to use SSD. It can bring the huge performance to our pcs, but the cost is so high. We have a lot of data in each PC. At least, we need 256GB, my PC even need 512GB. That costs us all of money. SSD is still not affordable for the small business like us.

Nowadays, Social Media is getting more important. Most of people have facebook or twitter accounts, maybe both. I found most of my friends spent more time on these social media rather surf on net. They are "addicted" to use Social Media for getting the latest updates from their friends. In the old time, we use the banner ads on the websites, because a lot of people like to browse the websites. Nowadays, we need to use Social Media Marketing to reach our potential customers, because so many people are using Social Media. Moreover, the Social Media can have more interactions between users and vendors to provide the useful information.

I have used for CloudFare for weeks. That is great! It saves a lot of bandwidth via CDN. As a result, my websites speed up a lot. Also, that is a side effect. My loading speed is improved, SEO is better too! The most important things will blocked a lot of known threats. It saved a lot of our time to administrate the websites. I love it!