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by throwaway290232 1806 days ago
Yeah, they sort of have different purposes. VPS providers are the easiest way to just start using some VMs for static workloads. But Cloud providers give you not only a ton more control, but also allow you to save money by only getting charged for the resources you use. The tradeoffs being that the latter is way more complicated, and the "hyper-scale" Cloud providers are extremely overpriced. I'm hoping more small providers pop up and make the big girls more competitively priced.