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by omniglottal 1021 days ago
When you say "no" to cloud hosting in the same sentence as you recommend buying a VPS in the cloud... it's odd.
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1_1xdev1 1021 days ago
A VPS paid monthly isn’t “cloud”. It’s just a server.

“Cloud” tends to assume elasticity, pay by minute, managed software services, etc.

“On the internet” isn’t cloud automatically

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kohanz 1021 days ago
I think that's a subjective interpretation.

Others would define a cloud server as any server that someone else owns and you don't have physical access to it.

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mattbrewsbytes 1021 days ago
VPS have been around for longer than “cloud” computing. In layman’s terms, yes cloud means someone else’s computer, but here and in other tech focused circles it usually means some kind of software defined compute services. A VPS where you login and install your stack and patch it I wouldn’t consider as cloud.

The main point I was making was figure out hosting later after figuring out the product/market fit.

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