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I really wish there was a stand-alone cloud provider to work with. AWS is a part of this unethical beast, GCP is a side project of a huge advertising company,
by alex_young 7y ago
I really wish there was a stand-alone cloud provider to work with.
AWS is a part of this unethical beast, GCP is a side project of a huge advertising company, Azure is under the wing of a major monopolist.
I guess there is Linode, but their services are more of a traditional VPS than a cloud host.
It's kind of crazy that most of the net income of Amazon comes from this business, but we've accepted that a stand alone cloud business won't work for some reason.
- praveenperera 7y agoDigitalOcean is quickly becoming just that.
- alex_young 7y agoThanks! I hadn't followed up on DO in a while, it looks like their service offerings are a lot more robust these days.
- SamWhited 7y agoI've been sad and wishing for something new ever since Joyent shut down Triton (which was absolutely fantastic, so much easier to use than the alternatives). Now that DigitalOcean has VPCs it might be considered an alternative, but I haven't had the best experience with their portal or customer support in the past, but maybe I should give them another shot. Other suggestions would be welcome.
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