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by lbotos 4120 days ago
What do you think makes the separation between a "cloud" provider and a VPS company?
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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.