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It might be semantics, but it looks like they’re still using ‘the cloud’. It’s just their cloud. It’s all just racks in a data centre.
by southwesterly 3y ago
It might be semantics, but it looks like they’re still using ‘the cloud’. It’s just their cloud.
It’s all just racks in a data centre.
- leroman 3y agoYes, maybe the better wording would be "public cloud", still probably everyone reads this as "cloud" vs "private hosting"
- funcDropShadow 3y agoBut it was all just racks in a data centre before the invention of the cloud.
- cryptos 3y agoBut what would be the definition of "cloud" then? I'd say it boils down to managed services, so that you don't have to care about basic system configuration, hardware or networking. The only thing 37Signals outsourced is the hardware part and basic network infrastructure. That is pretty much what was known as "colocation" in the pre-cloud era.
- everfrustrated 3y ago"Cloud" has an industry definition which amongst other things requires multi-tenancy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Definition