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0 pointsOver2Chars1y ago0 comments

You're just using your own data center instead of Jeff's bit barn.

I mean seriously people, a "cloud" is just someone elses' data center.

Am I missing something?

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Yes, but if it’s somebody else’s data center it’s on them to figure out how to earthquake proof or whatever. The cloud isnt just renting a computer, it’s renting a computer with a guarantee of uptime that somebody else can be financially liable for

Over2CharsOP1y ago

If Jeff is using DataCenter XYZ, and then letting me use his API to manage my VMs on his "cloud", and I decide to rent a cage at the exact same DataCenter XYZ on my own servers, I'm now "self-hosting".

Same Datacenter. Same reliability infrastructure wise - power, earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, black plague, monkey pox, etc.

ikiris1y ago

You seem to equate the some straw man version of the cloud to simple rack hosting in a single location. They are nothing alike. A cloud service is almost always geographically diverse and highly available in a way that is beyond most people to build out.

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