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by spossy 4120 days ago
maybe because digital ocean has and will always be a VPS company, they are not cloud.
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lbotos 4120 days ago
What do you think makes the separation between a "cloud" provider and a VPS company?
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justinsb 4120 days ago
The glib answer is that a cloud provider understands the need for a private network.

But, in that is a deeper truth: a VPS is a cheaper machine. It becomes "cloud" when you use many machines together. If you're using many machines, you really want intercommunication between those machines to be easy, fast and - yes - reasonably secure.

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vertex-four 4120 days ago
They claim to be a "cloud hosting" platform, though, which is the confusing bit.
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