>As far as I am concerned, I just don't understand why people use cloud services. Well that's the first issue. Many people have automated large parts of their

>As far as I am concerned, I just don't understand why people use cloud services. Well that's the first issue. Many people have automated large parts of their infrastructure in this way so that distributing one huge file becomes part of that whole mess. The goal is of course to keep costs down to a minimum. You can actually do a lot with little money using cloud services. But the careful balance is that you can easily miss little details. But how does that differ from any systems administration? The details are just in new areas that didn't exist 5-10 years ago. And the details you miss are more likely to increase cost. And when you process a lot of traffic, you're popular, that can go real fast. 20 years ago in hosting we might get a porn stash on a hacked NT4 server that would draw bandwidth. And back then a whole company might have 100Mbit fiber so you'd notice.