[bananapub]

I don't understand why this exact comment is posted on every thread about them - it's not very complicated.

"Cloud computing" style systems are nice in some ways - you can just ask a computer to give you some virtual computers and virtual storage and it gives it to you. Whoever owns them can put quotas or pricing or whatever on you, but you can self-serve, and you don't have to care about replacing DIMMs or NVMe sticks or whatever.

Having some random American megacorp host things in a datacenter is good for some people, bad for others. You might not want to be in their legal jurisdiction, or you're legally not allowed to, or you just don't want to, or their prices for your volume are too high, or you don't want to be locked in to whatever future bad choices they make.

So, Oxide made racks of machines you can buy, plug in, and then have a cloud-style (virtual machine, virtual storage, virtual network) system at home.

I really really don't understand what is hard to understand.

[fulafel]

Cloud is a nebulous term (intended), it can mean many things (SaaS? IaaS? PaaS?) and of course your own cloud is a self-contradictory term to boot so leaves you wondering what parts will be different and how. It might not be complicated but it's not easy to communicate if you start with that word.

[rcarmo]

Also, they provide end-to-end attestation on the entire software stack up to each workload. They can tell you exactly what firmware is running on each chip on their stack, etc. The hypervisor they use is pretty cool, too.

[kotaKat]

> I really really don't understand what is hard to understand.

I mean, not every single person on HN is a 10x developer that knows 300 programming languages known to man and 45 more known only to catgirls.

I'm a daytime Windows admin, this isn't stuff I normally work with, especially because it's targeted at a specific stack of things that I don't touch.

I really really don't understand what is hard to understand.