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This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far. (programming.dev)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nextcloud can be selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I use "my personal cloud" all the time. But that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I got another one. Self hosted but tunneled through cloudflare