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What is the difference between cloud and robot?

• sunbum 3y ago
  Cloud is VM's Robot is bare metal
  • koolba 3y ago
    s/‘s/s,/ Otherwise the VM possessive reads like: Cloud = VM’s Robot = bare metal
    • jeanlucas 3y ago
      Thank you
    • MonkeyClub 3y ago
      Consequently cloud = bare metal; which agrees with the axiom that "it's not a cloud, it's just someone else's computer".
      • randomdata 3y ago
        Traditionally, cloud referred to an abstraction above "someone else's computer", keeping the specific details of those computers hidden from the user, allowing the operator to do things like swap out the hardware, move the data to another datacenter, etc. without the end user ever noticing. But tech people love to come up with new definitions for the same terms all the time, so anything goes.
• aaronmdjones 3y ago
  Hetzner's cloud console (https://console.hetzner.cloud/ https://console.hetzner.cloud/) was introduced for their vServer migration (competing with the likes of Linode). Robot (https://robot.your-server.de/ https://robot.your-server.de/) was used for their vServers previously and is still used for their dedicated servers and domain names and such.