> Renting a box and forgetting about it is how you get hacked. You get hacked in any compute model if you don't know what you doing. > There is more maintenan

> Renting a box and forgetting about it is how you get hacked. You get hacked in any compute model if you don't know what you doing. > There is more maintenance and operational burden with self hosting vs cloud. Renting a box is closer to dedicated hosts than to self hosting, which are two very different things. > But going cloud doesn't mean there's no longer any burden. Exactly, and it starts with the complexity and confusion that the cloud became. Then with vendor specific stuff that you don't need, such IAM, and then when you think everything is alright, you notice your bandwidth is caped after 1 hour running your ec2, that your port 25 is magically broken (docs were updated years later after much complains), everything is a slow black box. Cloud is like chopping your both legs and being happy with it.