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Cloud = servers someone else has and mostly maintains for you Cloud...at home? This is a dumb headline. The definition of "server" has gone from big bulky slab

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Cloud = servers someone else has and mostly maintains for you No, ”cloud = on-demand provisioned server resources”; that was what distinguished cloud computing from pre-existing remote-leased or on-premises resources. “Private cloud” (usually, on-premises of the user) has been a thing since very early in cloud computing, and “at home” has been plausible for even fairly casual users at least since Ubuntu 9.04 bundled Eucalyptus. But this service is just abusing “cloud” to mean “SaaS”, I think (in that it's a demo of a paid SaaS product that incorporates your hardware.)
• furst 7y ago
  I think the biggest issue in this thread is the multiple definitions of what a cloud is. To most of the people in this thread, the cloud isn't possible at home. To consumers, the cloud is just somewhere else to store their files. This addresses the latter, giving consumers an easy way to store their files on a "server" i.e. their computers, while having it in your home.
• unknown2374 7y ago
  No, cloud does not mean that. Generally the cloud means that you can access data stored on a cloud as long as you are connected to the internet (or the same network). I don't know where you got that definition of cloud from.