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Metaphors like that only makes it even more confusing. It's a marketing scam, let's call it for what it is. Servers. They are servers.
by eric001 10y ago
Metaphors like that only makes it even more confusing. It's a marketing scam, let's call it for what it is. Servers. They are servers.
- blowski 10y agoThere can be difference between hosting on bare metal boxes and hosting on cloud providers. If you are connecting different services (message queues, databases, storage, transcoding), and spinning up and down instances based on current demand and spot prices, then cloud hosting is totally different. On the other hand, if you are just renting a couple of dedicated cloud instances, then yeah - they're just (virtualized) servers.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoYeah. The problem is, "cloud" now means both of the things you described and then some. Probably the best definition corresponding to present usage of this word would be "not on localhost". (Because yeah, if I host a Dropbox clone on my Raspberry Pi sitting on the wardrobe, I have my files "in the cloud" now.) We need a new word for automated, dynamic allocation/deallocation/management of remote instances for various services. Something that would differentiate it from buying a VPS.
- blowski 10y agoAgreed. Amongst non-technical people, 'in the cloud' just means 'somewhere on the internet'. For example, if I backup my iPhone onto iTunes on my laptop then that's not on the cloud, but if backup to iCloud then it's on the cloud. I guess it's frustrating that cloud means quite different things depending on the context, but I guess that's true of a lot of language.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt's one of the most successful marketing scams I've ever seen - the whole tech world bought it, and here I was thinking at least engineers are mostly bullshit-proof.
- rootlocus 10y agoWe have a sticker for this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVKwDixXAAAmRaI.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVKwDixXAAAmRaI.jpg