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by sparkling 1637 days ago
I agree that 99% of companies should not be buying their own hardware and setting up a datacenter in their basements. But: not all clouds are created equal.

The "cloud" can just be a blank Debian box on Digitalocean where you have root access _or_ it could be some obscure managed AWS service where all the technical days are abstracted away behind a REST API.