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I consider VPSs to be cloud servers. Is this not common?

• XCSme 6y ago
  I mentioned in another comment that I use VPS and not cloud services. I think of cloud as the auto-scaling infrastructure with dynamic pricing. I think of VPS as just sharing a dedicated machine with others, so each one gets a few cores and shares other resources. The implementation of VPSs nowdays is probably more similar to cloud services, where your own space might be moved around to another physical machine without any downtime.
  • Polylactic_acid 6y ago
    So you consider cloud servers to be what most people call serverless (S3/serverless functions/etc)?
    • XCSme 6y ago
      I do hate the term "serverless" as it makes no sense, but I think of cloud as a system that automatically spins-up/down VPSs based on your current usage. This means the infrastructure/software also allows for automatically load-balancing between those VPSs. So I think of cloud as the VPS servers that are used to host the actual data + the layer on top that does all the scaling, provisioning, load-balancing, etc.