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Is the idea that self hosters tend to make less security mistakes than the big hosting companies?
the idea is that you don't have half of all companies all share the same liability of a single cloud provider who is half-arsing it because of their monopoly position.
I’m well aware of the cloud, used it the entire time it’s existed.
Also known the cloud is made up of the same equipment that many can get access to similar or equivalent at their level of need.
The origin story of the cloud was that there were networking bottlenecks. Those were long since solved but the cloud kept carrying on like it wasn’t.
The cloud provides incredible convenience. It’s still some one else’s computer.