Doesn't this kind of defeat the purpose of running a node?  I could see 50 or so, and the cloud would be great for high availability.  Check out bitnodes.21.co.  I tried to figure things out on reddit with no success.
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/49orvl/the_number_of_classic_012_nodes_are_skyrocketing/

Something is wrong, I call foul