• SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    No one else uses the term “cloud” like that.

    That part of this comic really stuck out like a sore thumb. I can’t tell if it’s an oversight, a comment about the challenges of self-hosting, or subtle mockery of self-hosting hypocrisy.

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      1 year ago

      No one else uses the term “cloud” like that

      Broadly, “the cloud” is just someone else’s computer. VPSes still fall into that definition. A lot of VPS providers describe themselves as “cloud” now too (eg one of the main hosts I use, HostHatch, describes themselves that way on their site).

      If a single AWS EC2 or Lightsail server (which is essentially just a VPS in one region) is considered to be “in the cloud”, why not a much cheaper, more powerful server with a different provider?

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        1 year ago

        My interpretation of “cloud provided media storage” in the context of self-hosting is something like seaweedfs.