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The cloud providers are optimized for the corporate datacenter use case: internal applications that talk to each other and employees. That stuff is harder to do with traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC. The kinds of websites that could easily be hosted on the likes of Linode and DigitalOcean still ought to be.

[rhizome]

>traditional web hosts, which are built around each server being exposed to the internet and until recently had no answer to VPC

This is absolutely wrong unless you have rank n00bz leading your technology. This isn't even touching the implication that anything is harder to do outside of cloud hosting providers, it's just accounting for, well, the entire industry prior to, oh, let's say 10 years ago. It's not as prehistoric as it sounds, and in many (if not most) cases, the cloud providers are just slapping new trademarkable names on those classic architecture choices.

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Web hosts. There were of course other infrastructure providers that would support more complex architectures, but mostly of the “call us” variety.

[rhizome]

That is a distinction without a difference for me here, but the people have spoken regardless.