[a_random_canuck]

Sorry it’s not meant to be a dig at you, but in I wish we could stop talking about the “cloud” and software running “in the cloud”.

There is no cloud… it’s just software running on someone else’s computers that you don’t control. And that someone else is usually a megacorp like Microsoft or Amazon.

[maccam912]

Not the person you are responding to, but I'm aware that the cloud is just other people's hardware. But that's usually what I intend to mean when I say that. My own hardware I have to power, maintain, reboot, dust, cool, etc. And if I talk about "the cloud" I usually am taking about an environment I can maintain fully through software, none of the messy hardware failures and temperature management I might need to think about at home.