| Hyperbole is not a valid argument. Why didn't you go all the way and talk about declaring your own country on an asteroid? Because obviously what I suggested was to write nextcloud, in assembly, on a cpu architecture you invent. No one has to write any software, or design or build any hosting system, those already exist. And they are even effortless common commodities. The land is already zoned and cleared and permitted, and the house is already designed, and even already built. Popping a copy of already written and packaged software on a vps is some percent more work than creating a Google drive account, but that percent is not a million. Even if it's 500% more work, that is still trivial, 5x a few minutes. And even if you for some reason also need an insane availability garantee, it's hardly any more work to then put that behind a cdn, which are another low-effort commodity. Without even looking, I garantee that there is a pre-made nextcloud droplet ready to go on DigitalOcean that takes mere seconds to activate, and they are surely not the only service provider with an equivalent app-on-a-stick ready to go in a few clicks like that. And if their own backup offerings and network backbones aren't good enough already, without even looking I bet there is very little effort required to hook that up to CloudFlare. And this is all while avoiding the probably even easier one-stop-shopping path of just using aws for everything, just because F Amazon. Selecting a house built to order from a developer's catalog, or even buying land and hiring an architect, is indeed a perfectly exemplary alternative to buying an existing house from a realtor. Minus the stupid hyperbolic nonsense about rezoning, the example was in fact pretty good support of my point. Thank you! |