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by ants_everywhere 664 days ago
Thanks, I'm familiar with that usage but I had only ever heard it used in the context of web hosting companies and colos.

Basically a small VM on a crowded server for tasks like running a Wordpress site. So I was confused about why that was emphasized.

But it looks like it's expanded to cover things like GCP and EC2 which makes more sense.