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Industry: The word 'cloud' has lost all meaning

General Discussion by engzur 4 replies 194 views
engzur

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BGP Dreamer

10 #1

Collecting marketing abuses. RFC 2119 should have a MUST NOT for this.

Current leaderboard:

  • "private cloud" = single ESXi host in closet, AS-path not even multihomed
  • "hybrid cloud" = two VPS in different /24, same upstream
  • "edge cloud" = CDN node on Raspberry Pi, no prefix announced
  • "sovereign cloud" = server in country with no data protection laws anyway

Found 2013 gem: vendor called one physical server "the Vultr cloud platform". one. Server. no AS. No redundancy.

Post your findings. Diagrams welcome. Here is mine:

[marketing] --lies--> [you]
|
[single VPS]
1 vCPU / 1 GB

Dismissed unless you have ASN.

hankels

Member

52 VPS and counting

#2

I run 52 boxes and maybe 3 qualify as cloud by any reasonable definition. Rest are "cloud" because provider said so 😂

My taxonomy:

  • Real cloud: API, hourly billing, private networking, I can lose a node and not care
  • Fake cloud: "cloud" in plan name, $3/month, single point of failure
  • Cosmic cloud: they just add "cloud" to random words. "cloud storage" for ftp. "cloud compute" for openvz. "cloud premium" for same server, price doubled

Contabo "cloud vps" vs Contabo "vps": identical specs, €2 more for the word

seedbox, NAS, tape, and three offsite
ana_mad

Member

#3

Ticket open. Waiting. Provider called single kvm "enterprise cloud node". Went down again.

swimming upstream since 2019 🐟
harbourops

Member

3 #4

Terminology clarity:

  • Use "virtual private server" for single-tenant virtualized compute
  • Use "dedicated server" for bare-metal resources
  • Use "cloud" only when referencing: API-driven provisioning, redundant infrastructure, self-healing architecture

Specifications for Hetzner cloud platform:

  • API: RESTful, JSON
  • Redundancy: N+1 power, network, storage
  • Locations: 12 global points of presence

I've been using Hetzner for a while now.

bellaauc

Member

3-2-1 Believer

#5

Did you test your restore? 😊

Sorry, force of habit. On topic: I found a 2011 Hostinger ad calling shared hosting "personal cloud". 3-2-1 rule applies to marketing claims too: 3 buzzwords, 2 are lies, 1 actual server

Seriously though, the dilution makes procurement hard. "cloud backup" now means anything from rsync to s3 to tape. I ask providers: did you test your restore? They blink.

3-2-1 or you're already dead

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