and there are many downsides to EC2, dependence on a third party to a greater degree, shitty disk IO, instances go down more frequently than real servers, infle

and there are many downsides to EC2, dependence on a third party to a greater degree, shitty disk IO, instances go down more frequently than real servers, inflexibility with hardware (no SSDs), etc, etc. There are co-lo provides that have data centers in different places.