Serverless is just buzzword for a container on a virtual machine on a server. The Cloud is just a buzzword for a company with a data centre selling virtual servers from other big servers.
> You’re either so new to this stuff to have no experience to remember the days before cloud
I do, and it was much more peaceful.
Everything you can do on "in the cloud" you can do in colocation. Which in the long-run is cheaper, more secure* and it's yours! Including the data.
There are caveats, network, component failure. Investment in to these and you can have a pretty king setup.
The cloud enabled magnitude of email spam, brute-forcing, botnets, security vulnerabilities and much more. Operators are lazy don't want to combat it. Providers are bias, then again you can say that about any business.
People flock to the cloud like it's the greatest thing, when all your buying in to is a expensive price-plan for a company who will happily knock you off their service if you somehow brush up the wrong way and then charge you for a closed account.
I do laugh when something goes wrong for FANG. Partly, I'm cynical and want to see the world burn, but it's also these companies exploit their userbase, their staff and the environments resources. When Facebook locked themselves out of their own offices due to the BGP issue, now that's funny.
My colocation costs are:
$5000 covers for a three-year 1Gbit 2u server racking space in two different DCs. Where I have full-control, as many services as I desire, allowed to host what I desire and where the internet space is actually mine. It may be a small cube of internet but I know it's my network, my traffic.
Cloud is whitewash for me, I won't buy in to it. It has it purposes and if your happy with it, fine. But for me Colo for life.
> You’re either so new to this stuff to have no experience to remember the days before cloud
I do, and it was much more peaceful.
Everything you can do on "in the cloud" you can do in colocation. Which in the long-run is cheaper, more secure* and it's yours! Including the data.
There are caveats, network, component failure. Investment in to these and you can have a pretty king setup.
The cloud enabled magnitude of email spam, brute-forcing, botnets, security vulnerabilities and much more. Operators are lazy don't want to combat it. Providers are bias, then again you can say that about any business.
People flock to the cloud like it's the greatest thing, when all your buying in to is a expensive price-plan for a company who will happily knock you off their service if you somehow brush up the wrong way and then charge you for a closed account.
I do laugh when something goes wrong for FANG. Partly, I'm cynical and want to see the world burn, but it's also these companies exploit their userbase, their staff and the environments resources. When Facebook locked themselves out of their own offices due to the BGP issue, now that's funny.
My colocation costs are:
$5000 covers for a three-year 1Gbit 2u server racking space in two different DCs. Where I have full-control, as many services as I desire, allowed to host what I desire and where the internet space is actually mine. It may be a small cube of internet but I know it's my network, my traffic.
Cloud is whitewash for me, I won't buy in to it. It has it purposes and if your happy with it, fine. But for me Colo for life.