To go even further, if you have gigabit internet and the data center that hosts your drive is in the same city as you, then putting your swap in cloud storage could potentially be faster than storing it on a hard drive!

Obviously, this is making a lot of assumptions, like your ISP doesn't do any silly routing (I'm in Portland, and for a while a couple years ago, my ISP routed all my traffic through Seattle), assumes the cloud storage provider is using solid state storage, and all the code involved in retrieving it doesn't add more than a couple ms of latency.

There's a delay with data reaching a location, so why can't we send data to ourselves around the globe and when it gets to us, send it around again.. just around and around.