Comment on This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.

spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You want to talk about it?

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  • darelik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t threaten me with a good time

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It could be their own cloud. I refer to my VPSes as “the cloud” even though that’s still self-hosting.

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  • p5f20w18k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t like the use of the word cloud, makes it sound like some mystical virtual environment in the sky that anyone can use and it just works.

    It’s someone else’s computer, nothing more

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    • tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I broadly agree that "cloud" has an awful lot of marketing fluff to it, as with many previous buzzwords in information technology.

      However, I also think that there was legitimately a shift from a point in time where one got a physical box assigned to them to the point where VPSes started being a thing to something like AWS. A user really did become increasingly-decoupled from the actual physical hardware.

      With a physical server, I care about the actual physical aspects of the machine.

      With a VPS, I still have "a VPS". It's virtualized, yeah, but I don't normally deal with them dynamically.

      With something like AWS, I'm thinking more in terms of spinning up and spinning down instances when needed.

      I think that it's reasonable to want to describe that increasing abstraction in some way.

      Is it a fundamental game-changer? In general, I don't think so. But was there a shift? Yeah, I think so.

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• csolisr@communities.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My case is a variant of that - I used to host on a VPS, but the storage available was extremely expensive for, say, more than 16 GB. Tired of having to trim data literally daily, I went and purchased a home server with all the storage I would need. The problem? My home internet, being residential, is behind CG-NAT (not even a dynamic IP!), and that means renting a (much cheaper) VPS solely to expose my server to the open internet with a static IP.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For exposing your server to the internet, a $10/year 512MB RAM VPS would be more than enough. You can also get VPSes with way more storage for a reasonable price, especially during Black Friday. The VPS I’m hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on has 99GB disk space and is only $33/year, but that was part of a limited sale.

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