[mnutt]

One of the things that really attracted me was Snow Crash's very 90s idea that your plot of land in the Metaverse was run from your own computer. Of course, it didn't turn out that way and now everything is moving to the cloud.

[pavel_lishin]

Hey, the cloud is always online and my instances are mine. If I were running my website from my computer, it would be down every time I went into the subway.

[mnutt]

Presumably in the future connectivity will be much better than it is now, though I don't deny that there are real benefits of cloud hosting.